In recent years, the plastic mold industry has developed rapidly in China, followed by increasingly fierce market competition, after joining the WTO, foreign mold manufacturers enter the domestic market, to stand out in the fierce competition, the development of mold standard parts, the implementation of mold professional production is crucial.

As one of the pillar industries of China's light industry, the plastic industry has maintained a growth rate of more than 10% in recent years. In the plastics industry, the plastic hardware industry market is very active, becoming a new consumer hotspot and a new economic growth point. The market prospect of plastic metal mold is considerable, but it is far from the technical level of foreign countries.

At present, China's mold needs to break through the bottleneck restricting the development of the mold industry. Because with the rapid development of China's machinery, automobiles, home appliances and building materials and other pillar industries, plastic molds account for about 30% of the entire mold industry. However, due to the complex shape of plastic mold accessories, there are higher requirements for its design level, therefore, the technical level of mold test results inspection must be innovative and keep up with the development trend of The Times, otherwise the development of plastic mold will be restricted.

The industry believes that mold manufacturing enterprises want to break through the bottleneck must improve their own technology. At the meeting of The State Council on October 26, 2015, the Premier also said that today's technological revolution plays a very key role in economic development and promoting economic upgrading, advocating mass entrepreneurship and innovation, and also using innovative means to promote entrepreneurship.

Mold trade deficit increased year by year

Although the increase in mold exports in recent years is greater than the increase in imports, the absolute amount of the increase is still greater than imports, resulting in the mold trade deficit increasing year by year. The situation has improved in 2006, with a slight reduction in the deficit. There are two main reasons for the increase in the foreign trade deficit of molds: first, the sustained rapid development of the national economy, especially the rapid development of the automobile industry has brought about a strong demand for molds, and some high-end molds can not be produced in China, so they have to be imported; But it is also true that some molds can be produced domestically and are also imported. This is related to China's current tariff policy and project approval system. Second, the export of molds is not encouraged enough. Now the mold and other mechanical and electrical products, the export tax rebate rate is only 13%, but not up to 17%.

From the development prospect forecast report of China's plastic mold industry, plastic mold manufacturers should focus on the development of large, precise, complex, long-life molds with high technical content, and vigorously develop the international market and develop export molds. With the rapid development of China's plastics industry, especially engineering plastics, it is foreseeable that the development rate of China's plastic mold will continue to be higher than the overall development rate of the mold industry, and the annual growth rate will remain at about 20% in the next few years.

New trend of plastic mold development

In the four elements of mold quality, delivery cycle, price and service, more and more users have put the delivery cycle in the first place. Requiring mold companies to deliver as soon as possible has become a trend. Enterprises do everything possible to improve their adaptability, improve the technical level, improve the level of equipment, improve the level of management and improve efficiency are effective means to shorten the mold production cycle.

Vigorously improve the development capability, push the development work forward as far as possible, until it is involved in the product development of mold users, and even develop before there is no clear user object, and change from passive to active. At present, TV sets and display shells, air conditioner shells, motorcycle plastic parts, etc., have adopted this method, and mobile phone and telephone mold development has also begun to try. This approach breaks the long-term mold factory can only wait for a contract, in order to carry out mold design according to user requirements of the passive situation.

With the improvement of the design and processing level of mold enterprises, the manufacturing of molds is changing from mainly relying on the skills of fitters to mainly relying on technology. This is not only a change in the means of production, but also a change in the mode of production and the rise of ideas. This trend makes the standardization of the mold continue to improve, the mold accuracy is getting higher and higher, the production cycle is getting shorter and shorter, and the proportion of fitters is getting lower and lower, and finally promotes the overall level of the mold industry to continue to improve. China's mold industry currently has more than 10 national high-tech enterprises, about 200 provincial and municipal high-tech enterprises. In line with this trend, it is an inevitable requirement that the main backbone of the production of molds gradually change from technical talents to technical talents. Of course, at present and for a long time, technical talents are still very important, because the mold is difficult to completely get rid of the reliance on technology after all.

Mould enterprises and their mould production are developing rapidly towards informatization. In the information society, as a high-level modern mold enterprise, only the application of CAD/CAM is far from enough. At present, many enterprises have adopted CAE, CAT, PDM, CAPP, KBE, KBS, RE, CIMS, ERP and other advanced manufacturing technologies and virtual network technologies, which are the performance of information technology. The trend towards the development of information technology has become an industry consensus.

Not only the plastic industry needs to innovate, including electronic and electrical waste treatment, solid waste recycling, scrap car recycling, waste paper recycling and other industries need to improve their independent innovation capacity. It is not enough to improve its own internal performance, but also to adhere to the method of development to solve the problems in the progress, change the new development mode, meet the trend, rely on innovation to drive development, develop in the direction of information technology, and accelerate the steady progress of the industry.