From 1985 to 2015, it was 30 years of rapid progress in China's tire mold industry. In the past 30 years, China's tire mold industry has grown from small to large, with reasonable layout, steady development, rapid progress, and the world. The achievements have been remarkable. China's tire mold industry is both a follower and a witness to the glorious achievements of the Chinese rubber industry, as well as a promoter and executor of the development of China's tire industry.
Business scale from small to large
In the past 30 years, China's tire industry has developed rapidly, and the tire mold industry that it is supporting has also maintained a good momentum of development. At present, China has become a major country in the manufacture of tire molds. However, China's tire mold industry was very small before. The level of process technology is very backward, the production capacity is very low, and the scale of companies manufacturing tire molds is also very small.
In the 1960s, trowels, bench vices, and chisels were used to mold tires. In the 1970s, molds were manufactured using ordinary vehicles, milling, planing, and grinding. In the 1980s and 1990s, foreign advanced radial tires were introduced and digested. Mold manufacturing technology, began to purchase new special equipment for mold processing, have invested huge amounts of R & D and technical transformation funds, generous purchase of foreign CNC machine tools, etc., spent 80 million euros on a top brand six-axis five linkage machining center, has not Resatisfied with the domestic low-end market, have to devote themselves to international competition. Today, tire molds have entered the fourth development milestone, “innovationâ€, “patents†and even “brandsâ€, and are increasingly valued by industry entrepreneurs. The technological content of molds has been continuously improved, and more and more high-tech products have become molds. Processing equipment is also becoming more and more professional.
Since the new century, the rapid development of China's tire industry has brought a broad space for the development of domestic tire molds. In addition, due to cost and market factors, the focus of mold manufacturing in developed countries has gradually shifted to developing countries represented by China. Comprehensive factors at home and abroad have promoted the rapid development of the domestic tire mold industry, and many emerging tire mold companies have emerged. At present, the status quo of the tire mold industry is as follows:
First, there are numerous production companies.
At present, there are about 100 companies that produce tire molds nationwide, about 30 above the scale, and 2 listed companies. In recent years, private tire mold enterprises have developed rapidly. The overall production capacity of private enterprises has taken an absolute advantage, and technology and manufacturing equipment have taken the lead. It is the main force for the realization of a strong country of tire molds.
Nowadays, China’s domestic tire manufacturers almost all purchase molds in China, and they rarely import them. China’s foreign tire manufacturers, with the exception of a handful of molds with confidential patterns provided by self-built mold factories, are mostly in China. Manufacturers purchase. Moreover, China's tire molds have been exported for several years. The major tire giants in the world are purchasing large quantities of Chinese-made tire molds.
Second, it has the world's largest tire mold enterprise.
Shandong Haomai Group Co., Ltd. is now the world's largest tire mold manufacturer. The sales revenue of tire molds in 2013 was RMB 1 billion, which is expected to increase by about 50% in 2014. Big Wheel shares and Tianyang molds are among the forefront of the world's tire mold industry. The rapid development of China's tire mold enterprises, the large scale of the company, and the large number of employees have surprised foreign counterparts.
The development of China's tire mold manufacturing industry is severely uneven. There are serious divisions between the two levels. There are great disparities among enterprises and the degree of industrial concentration is relatively high. A small number of large enterprises have strong technological innovation capabilities, advanced technology and equipment, and have formed a very strong international competitiveness, and have begun to go abroad to set up branches abroad. However, many SMEs' competitiveness and their development potential are seriously insufficient. Therefore, although a few companies already have a certain amount of international influence, the entire industry has not yet formed a prominent competitive advantage in the international arena.
Third, it is an advanced, large number of mold processing equipment.
Most tire mold enterprises in China are established and developed over the past 10 years. In addition to the technological transformation of old mold companies, almost all of the advanced mold processing equipment introduced in the world today, such as large-scale high-precision CNC milling machines and five-axis machining Equipment and so on.
At present, the special tire mold production equipment that has been widely used includes special equipment such as electric die-forming machines for tire molds, special engraving machine tools, and CNC cutting machine tools, such as precision, high-speed, numerically controlled vehicles, and numerical control milling machines. The application of numerical control processing technology improves the development of traditional manufacturing industry as a whole. Its technical content is high and involves many aspects, including the rapid and high-efficiency of NC machining programming, multi-axis linkage machining of free space surfaces, and difficult-to-machine materials. The application of cutting, high-speed cutting, standardization and standardization of NC programming, etc. In the mold testing equipment, the three-dimensional detector, digital image metallographic analyzer, hardness tester, surface roughness instrument, laser interferometer, processing equipment, test trial equipment are widely used.
The introduction, absorption and development of a series of high-tech special equipment have not only solved the processing problems of the multi-arc surface and multi-curve phase contact of the tire mold cavity, but also enabled the development of the mechanized, informatized, and intelligentized tire mold production in China.
Rapid technological progress in the industry
Foreign large tire mold companies have a history of development in recent decades or hundreds of years. However, most of the development time of Chinese tire mold companies is basically in these ten years. Since the beginning of the 21st century, China's tire mold industry has entered a period of rapid development, and the level of product technology has improved significantly. Now processing a pair of tire molds can be completed in less than one month. Not only the production efficiency is greatly improved, but also the pattern has clear edges and corners, the pattern of lines is clear, the depth and spacing of the pattern are equal, and the appearance of the product is very delicate. Not only has the vulcanization efficiency been greatly improved, but also the vulcanized tires are very beautiful. It can be said that the technical progress of the tire mold has promoted the rapid development of the tire industry, and the relationship is complementary.
At present, the tire mold has two major process technologies: cone type and inclined plane type in China, forming a situation in which the three major processing technologies of precision casting, EDM, and CNC engraving coexist. The tire mold, especially the design of the radial tire mold with complex structure, has been transformed from a traditional manual experience design to a computer-aided design method. CAD/CAE/CAM and other digital mold technologies are widely used in design and manufacturing to enable mold design, analysis, and processing. Digital inspections, tryouts, etc. In addition, the application of advanced manufacturing technologies such as computer simulation, concurrent engineering, artificial intelligence, and rapid prototyping in the molding process, as well as standardization and specialized production have greatly improved the processing efficiency and processing accuracy of tire molds.
Key enterprises plan global layout
In 2013, China's tire mold industry had sales of 3.88 billion yuan, of which export value was 790 million yuan, accounting for about 20% of the total sales revenue of the industry. The leading company in the industry, Haomai Group Co., Ltd., has become the largest exporter of Chinese mold enterprises. In 2013, the export value of enterprises was 73 million US dollars.
China is not only a big country in the production of tire molds, but also a major exporter of tire molds. This is an important symbol of the rapid progress of China's tire mold industry. It also shows that tire mold companies have the ability to meet the needs of the international market. In the next 5 to 10 years, the mold export situation is still promising, and the structure of export molds will also change with the improvement of technology. More mold products with high technical content and high added value will become the mainstream.
At the same time, the globalization of Chinese tire mold manufacturing has also taken a crucial step.
After the acquisition of GMS in the United States in 2013, Hammer Group Co., Ltd. established service centers in the United States, Europe, South America, India, Southeast Asia, and Japan. At the same time, there are branch companies in China including Kunshan Haomai, Guiyang Haomai, Liaoning Haomai and Tianjin Haomai. At present, the company has shifted the tire mold market focus overseas, the customer base has been locked into the world's larger tire manufacturing company, the target is the next 3 to 5 years, high-end customer market share reached 30%, enabling the company to get rid of the domestic tire industry The influence of the boom cycle.
In order to further expand the North American market and enhance the company's international comprehensive competitiveness, Great Wheels Co., Ltd. invested in the Delaware State, USA, to establish a wholly-owned subsidiary, Great Wheel Holdings Co., Ltd., and acquired 75% of the Northeast U.S. mold company as the main entity. In the future, equity will further strengthen the international competitiveness of tire molds and rubber machinery products through localized marketing and services, and will become another globally strategic sales and technical service base after the China headquarters and Indian subsidiary companies.
Upgrading to a Powerful State in Four Aspects
China's tire mold industry has developed rapidly, but it is not balanced, and the industrial structure is not always reasonable, mainly in the middle and low-end mold companies, mold excess production capacity, competition in the industry homogenization fierce, lack of business development potential. Although the mold industry chain has been formed, but the key mold materials, mold steel still need to be part of the import, tire mold casting technology and the international level there is a certain gap. The early development capability of high-end molds is insufficient, but only a few companies have the ability to participate in the international competition in the high-end mold field. The irrational industrial structure and the intensiveness of low-end enterprises have formed obstacles to the development of the tire mold industry. With the adjustment of the global manufacturing pattern and the constraints of domestic industry development factors, China's tire mold industry needs to achieve transformation and upgrading in the following four aspects:
R&D and design. China is not only the "manufacturing center" of tire molds, but also the center of "R&D and design" in the world. It can lead the research and development trend of the international tire mold industry and master a number of core technologies with independent intellectual property rights.
Industry and brand. Has a complete tire mold industry system, a reasonable industrial structure, with large, complex, sophisticated, high-performance, long-life mold production capacity, has a number of strong international competitiveness, a good international reputation and a vast international market tire mold Brand.
Management and service. Has a complete tire mold management system, a high degree of information, can serve the upstream and downstream industry chain, tire mold industry should run through the entire life cycle of the tire manufacturing industry.
Talent and policy. There are sufficient talent pools, a large number of high-level scientific and technological talents and management talents, as well as large-scale technical workers. At the policy level, it is suggested that relevant universities and research institutes set up high-level materials processing and mold technology courses to promote the development of disciplines and professions, and accelerate the cultivation of high-end talents combining theoretical and practical abilities.
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