In 2017, many injection molding industry stakeholders considered the industry thriving and the sales soared in the year, especially in the field of injection molding machines.
'2017 will be a year of history, with sales expected to reach 273 million euros, an increase of 17% over the previous year - which will surpass the highest recorded in 2015.' Sumitomo (SHI) Demag In October at the German plastics processing exhibition so said.
Injection molding giant Arburg and Engel Also predict that by the end of this year, its performance will grow by 8% year on year. KraussMaffei It is estimated that its orders will grow 8% YoY, but sales will increase 10% or more.
American Plastics Industry Association Equipment Statistics Committee (CES) Statistics show that North American plastics shipments in the amount of shipments in the second quarter of 2017 (Q2) initially estimated 3.356 billion US dollars, an increase of 6% over the same period last year, blocking the trend of three consecutive quarters of decline in Q2 In the survey, respondents expected the medical and packaging industry to be the strongest end market in the coming year with different expectations in the automotive industry. The outlook for the electrical, electronic products and construction sectors is expected to be steadily rising. The industrial sector Demand is expected to remain stable.
In China and around the world, the injection molding machine industry is still an industry affected by the downstream application market.As the automotive, consumer electronics, home appliances and other areas of industrial upgrading and transformation, is affecting the injection molding machine industry chain, intelligent industrial 4.0 Production to become Arburg, KraussMaffei, Zhenxiong, Haitian, Borch, Iraq's secret injection molding machine giant active layout of the card war.
Giant victory
Injection molding machine (injection molding machine) is the highlight of the modern plastic manufacturing industry, widely used in the packaging, household, appliance, automotive, 3C and other manufacturing parts and components manufacturing process used in the global plastic molding equipment industry market, Europe and the United States And Japan and other multinational giants still occupy the leading dominance.
Injection molding machine structure
At present, the injection molding machine will still be the most popular type of plastic processing machinery industry in 2015. The market volume of the global injection molding machine will be 4.28 billion U.S. dollars in 2015, Markets and markets expects its market research consultancy to be 2.2% Year compound growth rate to reach 4.86 billion U.S. dollars by 2021.
According to the European Plastics News, Germany's plastics and rubber machinery exports will continue to grow, is expected to grow by 4% in 2017, there will be 3% growth in 2018, exports to all countries will continue to grow.
According to the latest report of VDMA, the German Rubber and Plastics Machinery Association said that the volume of exports in 2016 increased by 5.1% over the previous year to a total of 4.9 billion euros (5.4 billion U.S. dollars).
VDMA expects sales to grow 4% to 7.7 billion euros (8.6 billion U.S. dollars) as new orders increase 15% in the first quarter of 2017. Meanwhile, it predicts sales in 2018 will continue Growth, despite a slowdown, is still up 3% to a total of 8 billion euros (8.9 billion U.S. dollars).
According to Interconection, the top ten injection molding machine companies in the world (Arburg, Engel, Fanuc, Haitian, Nippon Steel & Steel, KraussMaffei, Milacron, Nissei, Sumitomo and Toshiba Machinery) Market share of about 65%.
These top ten giants are all transnational giants overseas except Haitian.
GF Securities Development Research Center Mechanical Group In a report, it is believed that more advanced technologies and a complete product mix have led foreign leading companies to occupy the high-end market, and technological advantages, long-term accumulation and development concept have led leading foreign companies to have a more complete product structure.
There are two main growth pathways for the world's leading injection molding machine manufacturers, one is the development of a long history of family business, such as Battenfeld and Milacron, the other is in the last century through technological innovation The establishment of the company gradually developed, such as ENGEL and Sodick. Europe's famous injection molding machine manufacturers WITTMANN BATTENFELD and Engel are from Austria. The world's leading injection molding machine manufacturing enterprises basically have a more complete series of products.
'This year's sales momentum is indeed very good, first of all thanks to the application of the environment, followed by the upgrading of the domestic industry, including transformation and upgrading of opportunities for the injection molding machines have played an important role in the growth.' Arburg Machinery Trading (Shenzhen ) Co., Ltd. Application Manager Yan Lu Shun told New Materials Online.
China camp hopes
China's plastics processing industry has enjoyed rapid growth during the Tenth Five-Year Plan period, driving the total output value of plastic processing machinery industry to rise from 7.3 billion yuan in 2000 to 58 billion yuan in 2015. China has now become the largest market for such devices in the world. Over the years, China's plastic molding equipment industry has been focusing on technological development and industrial upgrading from the initial focus on quantity development. China's injection molding machine as the largest import and export of plastic molding equipment, domestic equipment continue to replace imported equipment, the proportion of domestic About 49% in 2008 increased to 81% in 2015. Meanwhile, from 2006 to 2015, China's export of plastic machinery increased year by year, the trade deficit has been shrinking and the trade surplus in 2012 appears.
Global injection molding machine market competition
According to the statistics of China Plastics Machinery Industry Association, in the first half of 2017, there were 399 enterprises above designated size in China's plastic machinery manufacturing industry with the main business income of 32.995 billion yuan (up 26%), with a total profit of 3.28 billion yuan, up Increase by 52%.
China Plastic Machinery Industry Association believes that from the overall situation, under the influence of positive policies and the optimization and adjustment of industrial structure, the plastics machinery industry in China continues its positive trend and maintains rapid growth. The demand for many companies has sharply increased. To a year later, in short supply.
According to the notice of Haitian International Holdings Limited, operating income in the first half of 2017 amounted to RMB5,037 million, representing an increase of 30.5% as compared with the same period of last year; operating profit was RMB1,161 million, representing an increase of 45.2% over the same period of last year. This year continued the strong recovery in the second half of 2016, Half-year sales hit a record high over the same period.
Market, Haitian International sales in mainland China 3.6 billion yuan, an increase of 29.34%; Hong Kong and overseas countries, sales of 1.437 billion yuan, an increase of 33.35%.
According to the latest release of Iraq's secret, the first half of 2017, Iraqi secret revenue 929 million yuan, an increase of 44.77% over the previous year; attributable to shareholders of listed companies net profit of 133 million yuan, an increase of 161.75% over the same period the previous year. Machine as the main business of Iraq's one of the first half injection molding machine operating income of 498 million yuan, an increase of 22.63%, accounting for Iraq's first half of 2017 sales of 53.59%.
'The Company performed well in the first three quarters, with sufficient orders on hand and full capacity production, showing a gradual upward trend.' Iraq's close (300415.SZ) Securities Affairs Representative Chen Jiewen In the reception of institutional investors, a large number of Iraqi new products into the market. Injection molding machine, A5 series injection molding machine full range of products in China, Asia, the Middle East full sales, A5 US version and the European version will be developed by the end of next year Will import North American and European markets; second board machine series products from 500 tons to 3200 tons will be completed in the first half of next year a full range of research and development; multi material injection molding machine product development is also being carried out, can be used in cars, appliances, tools, toys, etc. industry.
According to New Materials Online ®, information obtained from the market shows that injection molding machines made by Chinese enterprises are mainly exported to developing countries and some to developed countries such as the United States.
Customs statistics show that from January to August 2017, the import volume of China's injection molding machines was 548.38 million U.S. dollars, up 44.6% over the same period of last year; the import volume was 5124, an increase of 42% over the same period of last year; the export amount was 759.04 million U.S. dollars, up 11.9% over the same period of last year; Taiwan, down 1.4%.
CICC Research also pointed out that in 2009, imports accounted for 26% of China's total demand for injection molding machines, and by 2015, imports accounted for only 18% of the total domestic demand for injection molding machines, the reason is that a group of outstanding Chinese enterprises started Into the field of high-end injection molding machine.
Fighting Industry 4.0
With the surging tide of Industry 4.0, the intelligent demand for injection molding machines has also become one of the focuses of the giants.
According to New Materials Online®, Zhenxiong injection molding machines come standard with networking capabilities that allow sharing of data, parameters, and operation with a shop floor management system (MES), cloud services, and the ability to connect to IOTs. 4.0 system can be seamlessly connected to all the equipment produced in different periods, allowing customers to easily achieve the purpose of information exchange, data sharing.
Zhenxiong MJ series of high-precision injection molding machine
In this year's Rubber Exhibition, intelligent injection molding machine business has become the highlight of the show.
WITTMANN BATTENFELD presented the new UNILOG B8 control system with many new features and user-friendliness, such as a combination of softkeys and gesture commands, a smart, comfortable screen that can be displayed and operated simultaneously by split-screen 2 kinds of functions and so on.
Borch has brought a variety of systems and platform services such as an intelligent injection molding unmanned production line and moving forward in the direction of Injection Molding Industry 4.0. ENGEL also brings a full set of inject 4.0 appearances.
'Agbo started an intelligent trend very early on and all of Arburg's injection molding machines have interfaces to serve the system and customers can clearly understand the state of production.'
'The essence of Industry 4.0 is efficiency and optimization through the use of data in production.' Dr. Rhinehard Schiff, Technical Director, KraussMaffei Equipment At the 2017 Beckhoff Industrial Technology Forum 2017 held during Chinaplas 2017, KraussMaffei also incorporated APC +, DataXplorer, a data collection tool and e-Service platform into Plastic 4.0.
APC is able to correct material viscosity differences based on measured mass pressure curves. DataXplorer collects, analyzes and records process data from IMM, accepts MC6 data, saves each cycle as a file and displays the data on the MC6 through the web interface, To achieve data visualization, the paper records to a new level.
Paul Kapeller, Product Manager for Digital Solutions at ENGEL, is here 'The Industry Forum 4.0 in Germany also states that ENGEL's approach to Industry 4.0 is smart machines, smart services and smart production, with the goal of taking full advantage of the potential of injection molding. Smart machines have higher stability and better performance Product quality, providing the highest process stability to customer service with intelligent quality solutions; and smarter services with greater availability and better maintenance.
'In the process of going to' Industry 4.0 ', we should pay attention not to create for smart manufacturing, but to create value for customers to create.' China Plastic Machinery Industry Association, Zhu Kangjian that the injection molding machine business according to Different customers of the economy, the strength of conditions, the real needs of the conditions to meet different levels of intelligent demand.