Hardware Tools Welcomes the Golden Age

Since 2010, with the weakening of the financial crisis, many hardware companies have seen a rebound in their foreign trade. This is mainly due to the country’s favorable policies to promote the rise of the central region, and continued encouragement of the development of the western region and the redevelopment of the eastern region. All of this has led to the sales of hardware tools; the rapid recovery of the international economy has further driven the overall improvement in the export situation of hardware products, and has also given the hardware industry greater room for development. The strong domestic market demand and the vigorous development of foreign markets have combined organically to create a golden period for the hardware industry.

After the recovery of the international economy, hardware tools ushered in the golden period of development of the export market, especially in the developing countries. Due to the relative lag and overall ageing of the machinery processing industry in developing countries, there is a strong demand for imported hardware products. The hardware products business quickly seized this great opportunity to gradually develop trade agreements and contacts. Huge export market and trade business.

At present, the export of hardware tools in China is picking up. The development of the hardware industry ushered in a new pattern of foreign trade.

1. The structure of export commodities has been further optimized, and the export of high-tech products has grown markedly by clamping and cutting tools such as wire rope shears, bolt cutters, saw frames, machine tools, telecommunications tools, and household combination tools. Steel tape measure, level gauge A series of high-tech and high-value-added export products, such as series of measuring tools and socket wrenches and impact batches, gradually replaced the original low-value-added hardware tools and other commodities, including clamp cutting and set products. The largest proportion.

2. Progress in export diversification strategy While consolidating existing traditional markets such as Southeast Asia and the Americas, dealers actively adjusted the product operating structure, changed the purchase and sales model between the main customers and customers, and worked hard to open up new markets such as Africa and Europe.

3. The strength of exporters of hardware tools and products continues to increase. Exports of large-scale and honest business households are all going hand in hand, and the export growth of both hardware and tool products far exceeds that of general business households.

4. The growth of processing and creating trade of self-produced and self-owned brands has grown rapidly. As the Zhuoshi Abrasives Abrasives Center, Commonwealth Industrial Hardware Center, and Vertical and Horizontal Hardware Tools Center, and other major operators have launched their own dominant brands, which account for the export products. The proportion continues to increase.

Luo Baihui, the secretary-general of the association, pointed out that the hardware foreign trade companies are assessing the situation, responding in a timely manner, actively participating in international exhibitions, improving product quality, increasing product innovation, vigorously inventing low-carbon products in accordance with the international economic situation, and understanding the EU directives standards for export of hardware products, etc. This will open up the banner of foreign markets and increase the international market share of China's hardware products.

According to relevant statistics, the domestic measuring tools show that after several decades of construction and development, China's measuring tool industry has initially formed an industrial system with relatively complete product categories, a certain scale of production and development capabilities, and has become the world’s second-largest producer of products in addition to Japan. country. However, as the basis of CNC cutting technology, China's tool manufacturing industry still has a big gap with foreign advanced level in terms of technical level and performance quality of measuring instruments.

From visual inspection to simple measurement to precision measurement, advances in measurement technology have ensured advancements in manufacturing technology to some extent. The famous scientist Mr. Qian Xuesen also pointed out: Information technology includes measurement technology, computer technology and communication technology. Measurement technology is the key and the foundation.

The person in charge of the China Machine Tool Industry Association stated that precision machining requires not only the precision and stability of the machine tool, but also the precision of the tools and fixtures. It also requires precision measuring instruments to calibrate and measure. Some are in the process (for example, the tool setting tool); others are detected afterwards (such as gear measuring instruments).

According to industry experts, taking the wind power industry as an example, the machining and testing of typical components such as steam turbine blades, rotor wheel slots, and turbine rotor rotor slots in power generation equipment have been represented and reflected to some extent. The state-of-the-art cutting technology and the latest achievements and levels of CNC tooling, digital measurement technology and measuring instruments have attracted the attention of the tool manufacturing industry.

Luo Baihui, secretary-general of the International Mould, Hardware and Plastics Industry Suppliers Association, said that in recent years, domestic measuring and measuring instrument manufacturers have invested heavily in the development of digital display technology and digital display products, and have achieved great results. Domestic digital display tools have evolved from the simple bar LCD digital display of previous years to the more complex image display of surface dynamic liquid crystal dynamic simulation. The resolution of the digital video scale grid has been developed from 0.01 millimeter to 0.001 millimeter, and the accuracy and reliability of measurement have been improved. Have a significant increase. The continuous improvement of waterproof and dustproof performance (from IP54 to IP65, which can now reach IP67) also enhances the market competitiveness of domestic digital display gauges. Among them, Harbin Measuring & Cutting Tools Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter abbreviated as Harbin) has continuously strengthened its advantages in the development and manufacturing of precision instruments such as gear measuring instruments, surface roughness measuring instruments, and contour measuring instruments in the past 10 years and successfully developed the largest domestic The 2 meter CNC gear measuring instrument has become the most competitive precision measuring instrument manufacturer in China.

Luo Fu, director of the National Precision Tool Engineering Research Center and director of the Chengdu Tool Research Institute, said that so far, the center's achievements in new tool materials, tool surface modification processes, and gear meters have been at the leading level in the country. Through unremitting efforts, it has now possessed the most advanced precision tool production equipment with independent intellectual property rights in China and established an industrialization base, which has enabled China's precision tools to achieve leap-forward development in terms of research and development, technological equipment and industrialization capabilities. The results have reached or reached the world advanced level. The dual-frequency laser interferometer is the core product independently developed by the center. Now only this center has the technology to produce this equipment. Its successful development has changed China's long-term dependence on imports in this field. The instrument's many functions have broken the foreign technology**, with a detection resolution of 0.02 microns and a detection length of up to 20 meters. The price is much lower than that of similar foreign products. At the international level, this instrument can compete with other similar products in the United Kingdom and the United States.