The leaders of the State Council organized a symposium on the machine tool industry to judge the development of the industry

 

On November 11, the leaders of the State Council organized a symposium on the machine tool industry in the Third Academy of Aerospace. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the Science and Technology Bureau, and the China Finance Office attended the meeting. More than 10 machine tool industry companies were responsible. People participate. The meeting fully affirmed the development achievements of the machine tool industry in recent years, and believed that the machine tool industry plays an important role in supporting the development of the national economy and safeguarding national defense and economic security. At the same time, it is pointed out that in order to clearly understand the severe external environment faced by the machine tool industry, it is necessary to actively explore the institutional mechanisms of demand-induced traction and market mechanism failure in some product areas to form a sustainable development model for the industry. The meeting stressed that in the formulation of industrial policies, it is necessary to implement the basic economic system. The state-owned economy and the private economy should be treated equally, establish new innovative mechanisms for production, education and research, and give full play to the enthusiasm of private enterprises.

 

In the second half of 2018, the market growth rate slowed down, and the differentiation of industry enterprises intensified

 

After a rapid development in the past 10 years, China's machine tool industry has seen a sharp turning point in 2011. From the perspective of the industry as a whole, the downward trend continued until 2016. 2017 showed a recovery growth. However, the growth trend in the second half of 2018 has narrowed significantly. The overall operation of the machine tool industry has slowed down, and market demand has shown a downward trend. In the process of large-scale adjustment of the quantity and quality of market demand, some enterprises have caused debt crisis due to blind expansion or relocation and relocation, and there are operational dilemmas, and some even bankruptcy reorganization; Market development opportunities are growing rapidly.

 

China's machine tool market is not attractive, and some foreign-invested companies are expanding their investment in China.

 

In 2018, the Chinese machine tool market is still attractive to foreign-invested companies: India's McLaren Metz Machine Tool Company opened a “Technology Experience Center” in the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone; Swiss TORNOS Group opened a Shanghai Customer Service Center in the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone; ABB announced that it will invest in a new robot factory in Shanghai, China; the Japan FANUC Robotic Chongqing base project will start construction in Liangjiang New District; the German Emak Taicang plant will be relocated to the new plant, nearly double the previous area; Siemens CNC SNC will Invest in the construction of a digital factory in Nanjing. Not all.

 

Machine tool industry standard construction work continues to advance

 

In 2018, the construction of the Group Standards of China Machine Tool Industry Association continued to deepen, and the first phase of the “Product Quality Commitment Commitment” was carried out. The “Standards for Product Quality Evaluation” was established. The 11 group standard plan projects have been approved. Review and enter the approval stage. In terms of international standards, in February 2018, the international standard proposal for "General Requirements for Industrial Automation Systems and Integrated Machine Tool CNC Systems" submitted by China was approved and officially approved, marking that China is expected to achieve "zero" in the field of machine tool CNC system international standards. Breakthrough; In October 2018, the "S-shaped test piece" for the accuracy inspection of five-axis CNC machine tools developed by China entered the final draft of the international standard (FDIS stage), marking the "S-shaped test piece" is about to enter the international Standard sequence.

 

Strengthening the docking of CNC machine tools and key areas, and expanding the promotion of special results

 

On March 23, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology organized a special on-site matchmaking meeting between the "two machines" and CNC machine tools in the Third Academy of Aerospace. More than 200 representatives from the aviation engine, gas turbine and machine tool industry participated in the meeting, and 12 companies jointly launched the initiative. The two machines have long-term cooperation with machine tool enterprises, joint research, collaborative innovation, and joint construction of major application demonstrations. On November 5th, the special office organized a special joint venture between the CNC machine tools and the automotive field in Shanghai to jointly explore a new model of synergy between production and demand. On December 11th, the special office organized a special promotion of CNC machine tools in the field of aero-engine applications in Hunan, exchanged the application of special results such as high-end machine tools and tools, and discussed the needs of manufacturing equipment and the collaborative research of production, education and research. In December, the special office held the “Starting Meeting of the 2018 Project for Numerical Control Machine Tools”, which put forward new requirements for special management. At the same time, it launched the demonstration of the special project of CNC machine tools in 2019, focusing on further focusing on the aerospace and automotive fields and strengthening the special results. Promote the application.

 

Many projects in the machine tool industry participated in the Machinery Industry Science and Technology Award and won the award

 

In the 2018 China Machinery Industry Science and Technology Awards, the machine tool industry announced a total of 41 projects, and finally decided to win 20 projects, the award rate was 49%. Among the winning projects, there are 1 special prize, 4 first prizes, 5 second prizes and 10 third prizes. The project “Key Technology Research and Key Field Application of Precision Horizontal Machining Center” won the special prize. The project participants include: Beijing Machine Tool Research Institute Co., Ltd., Beijing Gongyan Precision Machinery Co., Ltd., Sichuan Pushkin Ningjiang Machine Tool Co., Ltd., Shen Machine Group Kunming Machine Tool Co., Ltd., Tianjin University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Beijing Xinghang Electromechanical Equipment Co., Ltd.

 

Sino-US trade friction has a certain impact on the import and export trade of machine tool industry

 

In June 2018, Sino-US trade friction broke out, and in the list of goods that the United States imposed tariffs on China, almost all of the machine tool products were covered. Machine tools and functional parts, accessories, tool tools, abrasives and other products will be subject to a 25% tariff on the basis of the original 5% tariff. At the same time, in the list of goods subject to tariffs in the United States and Canada, there are 135 commodity tax items directly related to the machine tool industry, accounting for 81% of the total import goods tax of the industry. Affected by this, in the second half of the year, the growth rate of some machine tool and tool enterprises exported to the US market slowed down, the downward pressure on exports increased, and the cost of import and export trade increased to varying degrees.

 

The technology and quality level of domestic machine tool products have been further improved, and high-end products have been approved for application in key areas.

 

The 2017 Double Top Ten Product Award of China Machine Tool Industry, which is based on the evaluation of user application in key areas, was released on April 9, 2018. The ball of the N2825-II spacecraft docking mechanism of Beijing Gongyan Seiki Co., Ltd. 10 products such as W4020D overhead gantry three-dimensional five-axis laser cutting machine of Paijiao, Dazu Laser Technology Industry Group Co., Ltd. and YW7232CNC CNC universal gear grinding machine of Chongqing Machine Tool (Group) Co., Ltd., Hanjiang Tools Co., Ltd. 10 products such as pinion cutters have won the honorary title of “Innovative Innovation and Product Quality Top Ten”. In addition, Chongqing Machine Tool (Group) Co., Ltd. "Artificial Intelligence Based Hobbing Machine Development and Application" project was selected in the "2018 Artificial Intelligence and Real Economy Deep Integration Innovation Project" list; Yawei Co., Ltd., Wuhan Huagong Laser Engineering Co., Ltd. The company was selected as the list of national technology innovation demonstration enterprises in 2018; Chairman Zhang Zhigang of Jinan Second Machine Tool Group Co., Ltd. won the “Outstanding Person Award” for the 40th anniversary of the reform and opening up of China's automobile industry, indicating that these products and related enterprises are in aviation, aerospace, automobile, high-speed rail, etc. The application of the field is excellent and is recognized by users.

 

CCMT2018 internationalization level reaches new height

 

As a well-known brand of machine tool exhibition in China, the China CNC Machine Tool Exhibition (CCMT), sponsored by China Machine Tool Industry Association, celebrated its 10th birthday in April 2018. CCMT2018 has the theme of “Focus – Digital • Interconnection • Intellectual Creation”. A total of 1,233 exhibitors from 23 countries and regions participated in the exhibition, an increase of 7.4% over the previous session. There are machine tool associations and trade promotion agencies from 10 countries and regions. The group participated in the exhibition, the number of overseas exhibitors reached 526, an increase of 41.8% over the previous session; the cumulative number of visitors reached 126,000, an increase of 19.7%; the innovation of exhibits increased, including many starting or the first exhibition, the number and variety of exhibits exceeded the previous.

 

The Ministry of Commerce issued an announcement to investigate anti-dumping investigations against imported vertical machining centers originating in Japan and Taiwan.

 

According to the anti-dumping investigation application submitted by Chinese machine tool enterprises on August 20, 2018, the Ministry of Commerce decided in accordance with the relevant provisions of the "Anti-dumping Regulations of the People's Republic of China" and based on the evidence provided by the applicant and the relevant review results of the Ministry of Commerce. On October 16th, an anti-dumping investigation was initiated on imported vertical machining centers originating in Japan and Taiwan. The dumping investigation period determined in this survey is from July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018, and the industrial damage investigation period is from January 1, 2014 to June 30, 2018. As of November 5, there were many companies registered in Japan and Taiwan, and the Ministry of Commerce adopted a sample survey to select three companies in Japan and three in Taiwan. This survey is only for vertical machining centers. The import tax number in China is 84571010.