Hardware tools usher in the golden period of market development in developing countries

China's hardware products have a wide variety, good quality and reasonable price. With the good reputation of dealers, enthusiastic service and the huge sales network accumulated over the years, China has gradually opened up new markets in various provinces and cities in China and in the Middle East, Africa, Kazakhstan, South Asia, Uruguay and other emerging markets. Since 2010, with the gradual weakening of the impact of the financial crisis, the foreign trade of many hardware enterprises has shown a warming trend, which is mainly due to the favorable policies of the state to promote the rise of the central region, the continuous promotion of the western development and the reconstruction of the East, all of which have driven the sales of hardware tools; The rapid recovery of the international economy has further driven the overall improvement of the export situation of hardware products, and also brought greater development space to the hardware industry. The vigorous domestic market demand and the vigorous expansion of foreign markets have organically combined to create a good golden development period for the hardware industry.

After the recovery of the international economy, hardware tools have ushered in a golden period of development in the export market, especially in the markets of developing countries. Due to the relative lag and overall aging of the mechanical processing industry in developing countries, there is a widespread strong demand for imported tools and hardware products. Hardware Products Merchants quickly seized this great opportunity to gradually open up a huge export market and trade business through trade agreements and exchanges.

At present, the export of China's hardware tools has recovered, and the development of the hardware industry has ushered in a new foreign trade pattern.

1. The structure of export commodities was further optimized, and the export of high-tech products increased significantly

A number of high-tech and high value-added export commodities, mainly including clamping and cutting series tools such as wire rope scissors, wire cutters, saw frames, machine repair tools, telecommunications tools, household combination tools, measuring tool series such as steel tape and level gauge, and fastening series products such as socket wrench and impact batch, have gradually replaced the original hardware tools and other commodities with low value-added, of which clamping and cutting and assembly products account for the largest proportion.

2. Progress in export diversification strategy

While consolidating the original traditional markets such as Southeast Asia and America, dealers actively adjust the product operation structure, change the purchase and sales mode between the main customers, and strive to open up new markets such as Africa and Europe.

3. The strength of exporters of hardware and tool products has been continuously enhanced

The export of products from large and honest operators went hand in hand, and the export growth of hardware and tools products of both operators far exceeded that of ordinary operators.

4. The processing and creation trade of self-produced and self-made brands grows rapidly

For example, Zhuoshi polishing abrasive center, federal industrial hardware collection, Zongheng hardware tool center and other large operators have launched their own advantageous brands, accounting for an increasing proportion of export products.

Luobaihui, Secretary General of the association, pointed out that hardware foreign trade enterprises should assess the situation, make timely response measures, actively participate in international exhibitions, improve product quality, increase product innovation, vigorously create low-carbon products according to the international economic situation, understand the EU directive standards for hardware products export, etc., thus opening the banner of expanding foreign markets and improving the international market share of China's hardware products.

Splendid domestic hardware measuring tools

Relevant statistics show that after decades of construction and development, China's measuring tool industry has initially formed an industrial system with relatively complete product categories, a certain production scale and development capacity, and has become the second largest measuring tool manufacturer in the world except Japan. However, as the basis of NC cutting technology, there is still a big gap between China's tool manufacturing industry and foreign advanced level in the technical level and performance quality of measuring instruments.

From visual inspection to simple measurement to precision measurement, the progress of measurement technology ensures the progress of manufacturing technology to a certain extent. Mr. Qian Xuesen, a famous scientist, once pointed out: "information technology includes measurement technology, computer technology and communication technology. Measurement technology is the key and foundation."

The head of China Machine Tool Industry Association said that precision machining and manufacturing not only need the accuracy and stability of machine tools, as well as the accuracy of tools and fixtures, but also need precision measuring instruments to calibrate and measure. "Some are in the process of machining (such as tool setting instrument); some are post inspection (such as gear measuring instrument)."

According to experts in the industry, taking the wind power industry as an example, the processing and testing of some typical key parts in power generation equipment, such as turbine blades, rotor slots and turbine generator rotor slot, to a certain extent, represent and reflect the latest achievements and levels of a country's advanced cutting technology, numerical control tools, digital measurement technology and measuring instruments, so they have attracted the attention of the tool manufacturing industry.

Luobaihui, Secretary General of the International Association of mold, hardware and plastic industry suppliers, said that in recent years, domestic measuring tool manufacturers have increased investment in the independent development of digital display technology and digital display measuring tool products, and have achieved great results. Domestic digital display measuring tools have developed from simple strip LCD digital display to more complex surface LCD dynamic simulation image display in the past few years. The resolution of the digital display caliper's capacity grid has developed from 0.01 mm to 0.001 mm. The measurement accuracy and reliability have been significantly improved. The continuously improved waterproof and dustproof performance (from IP54 to IP65, up to IP67 at present) also enhances the market competitiveness of domestic digital display measuring tools. Among them, Harbin Measuring and cutting tools Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Harbin Liang) has continuously strengthened its advantages in the development and manufacturing of precision instruments such as gear measuring instruments, surface roughness measuring instruments and profile measuring instruments in the past 10 years, successfully developed the largest 2-meter CNC gear measuring instrument in China, and has become the most competitive manufacturer of precision measuring instruments in China.

Luo Defu, director of the National Precision Tool Engineering Research Center and director of Chengdu Tool Research Institute, said that so far, the center's achievements in new tool materials, tool material surface modification process, gear measuring instrument and other aspects have been at the leading level in China. Through unremitting efforts, China now has the most advanced precision tool production equipment with independent intellectual property rights, and has established an industrialization base, which has enabled China's precision tools to achieve leapfrog development in terms of R & D, process equipment and industrialization capacity, and some achievements have been close to or reached the world advanced level. "Dual frequency laser interferometer" is the core product independently developed by the center. At present, only the center in China has this technology and can produce this equipment. Its successful development has changed China's long-term dependence on imports in this field. The multiple functions of the instrument have broken the technical blockade of foreign countries, with a detection resolution of 0.02 μ m and a detection length of 20 m. The price is much lower than that of similar foreign products. Internationally, this instrument can compete with similar products in Britain, America and other countries!