CPT International 01/2016

SPECIAL
The 13th Five-Year Plan also set down the
framework of lowering cost. Industrial energy
conservation is the grim – nationwide.
It is estimated that the high energy-consuming
industry in industrial circle
will be more strictly supervised. For adapting
to requirements of national environmental
protection regulation and the demand
of reducing product manufacturing
cost, casting industry will pay more attention
on energy management by promoting
technical and management energy
saving simultaneously.
Advanced energy-saving technology and
equipment have broader space in foundry
enterprise application. Per ton comprehensive
energy consumption of casting will be
further reduced.
to the Middle and the West of the country
to stay competitive in the market. It will
change the all-over geographical industry
layout of the country.
Meanwhile, it is expected some casting
orders from overseas will be transferred to
other countries in which labour cost are
comparatively lower.
All these factors will speed up the transformation
of the traditional industry into
modern enterprise through innovation.
In general, the number of foundry companies
will be reduced as less competitive
enterprises will fall out from the market.
Through economies of scale, some larger
enterprises may enjoy a better margin of
business, and further enhance the industry
concentration ratio. It may turn out
that 20 % of the companies will produce
80 % of the castings available in the market.
The implementation of the latest national
environmental protection act was
just the starting point. It was expected that
subsequent supporting regulations will
follow, and national environmental legal
enforcement will be further enhanced.
Casting industry has always been under
the monitoring pressure from environmentalists
in the aspects of smoke
and dust emission, waste gas treatment,
etc. All enterprises should abide the latest
environmental protection regulation
requirements by implementing the latest
environmental protection equipment
for production. The sooner they can fulfill
it, the higher chance they can stay competitive
in the market, and in turn expect
growth in profit.
The 3-D printing and rapid prototyping
technology will further improve the
development of new products at much
lower cost. Rapid prototyping technology
can produce some castings in small batches.
Breakthrough will be made with the application
of the semi-solid forming technology
in aluminium alloy casting, which
is expected to be applied on a large scale in
the industry.
The domestic foundry equipment manufacturing
level will be further improved,
capable to produce world-class key foundry
equipment such as high-pressure automatic
molding lines and large die-casting
machines to meet domestic needs.
With technological transformation of
foundry enterprises, efficient, energy-saving
and highly automatic foundry equipment
will be used in a much wider perspective.
To cope with the ever-rising labour cost
and production in harsh environment,
some enterprises that produce a large bulk
of castings will gradually extend the use of
robots in core making, pouring, and cleaning.
It is our hope that the foundry equipment
produced in China will become
more competitive in the international
market.
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