Hanshan County, which enjoys the reputation of “Hometown of Casting in East China”, currently has 184 foundry enterprises, and its annual casting production capacity accounts for 1/25 of the country. Hanshan County continues to expand the green intelligent casting industry, and accelerates the improvement of the foundry industry. The green intelligent casting industry is recognized as a county-level characteristic industrial cluster in the province. The “1+4+N” modern industrial system led by green intelligent casting is accelerating the construction .
On October 18th, Anhui Hanshan Green Intelligent Casting Industry Forum was grandly held. The forum invited top academic authorities and well-known scholars in the field of foundry across the country, with the theme of “green intelligence, transformation and upgrading”, to exchange the development trend of the foundry industry and the most advanced information. The participating experts focused on the direction and path of the green and intelligent development of the foundry industry in the future to conduct in-depth discussions and exchanges.
This forum was sponsored by China Foundry Association, East China Foundry Association, Anhui Foundry Association, CPC Hanshan County Committee, and Hanshan County People’s Government. Hanshan County will use this event as an opportunity to accelerate the development of provincial-level green intelligent casting characteristic industrial clusters (bases), focus on building the “Yangtze River Delta Casting Industry Base”, launch the “East China Casting Township” brand, and strive to achieve the “large casting county” “To “make a strong county with wisdom”.
Qian Jun, Deputy Secretary of the Hanshan County Party Committee and County Mayor, pointed out in his opening speech: In recent years, Hanshan and the China Foundry Association have carried out in-depth cooperation to vigorously promote the renovation of the foundry industry. Go all out to recruit big and strong, and the “1+4+N” modern industrial system led by green intelligent casting is being accelerated. Last year, Hanshan’s “green and smart” foundry industry cluster (base) construction effectiveness evaluation ranked second in the 48 county industrial clusters in the province, and won the provincial government’s incentive and commendation for its hard work. Hanshan is moving from a “casting county” to ” Stride forward on the road of building a strong county with wisdom. The results of this forum will become an important force leading the future development of the province and even the nation’s foundry industry. Hanshan will use this forum as an opportunity to further innovate development ideas, optimize policy systems, strengthen work implementation, and strive to build Hanshan into an important green intelligent casting base in Anhui and even the country.
The participating experts made keynote reports respectively.
Wen Ping[Professor-level senior engineer, currently the executive vice president of China Foundry Association, successively served as executive vice president and secretary-general of China Foundry Association, chairman of China Foundry Association Quality Standards Working Committee, executive vice president of Foundry Pig Iron Branch, is a national professional Member of the classification ceremony (mechanical) expert group, major project review expert of the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, concurrently serving as the editor-in-chief and member of the editorial board of many magazines such as “World Foundry” and “China Foundry Equipment and Technology”. With the title of “Overview of China’s Foundry Industry”, he introduced the status quo of China’s foundry industry, the basic path of transformation and upgrading, relevant industrial policies, and the industry’s “14th Five-Year Plan”. The report puts forward 4 basic paths for transformation and upgrading, namely, promoting industrial transformation and upgrading through laws, regulations and industrial policies, and promoting innovation and development to improve the quality and efficiency of the industry. Green casting is the inevitable choice for sustainable and high-quality development of the industry, creating distinctive and intelligent models. Foundry industry cluster (industrial park). In response to Hanshan’s accelerating the development of provincial-level green and intelligent casting characteristic industrial clusters (bases), valuable opinions such as “strengthening planning and guidance, advancing the construction of park public platforms, guiding enterprises to implement professional division of labor and collaboration, and building “smart industrial clusters””.
Xie Mingguo (a senior engineer, currently the factory director and party secretary of the Hefei Casting and Forging Plant of Anhui Heli Co., Ltd., concurrently the chairman of the Anhui Foundry Association and the vice chairman of the China Foundry Association). He introduced the urgency of pollution reduction and carbon reduction and its impact on the foundry industry with the title of “Synergy of Pollution and Carbon Reduction, Promoting the Green Development of the Foundry Industry”. Put forward the countermeasures of the foundry industry from the aspects of “establishing an effective energy management system, improving energy structure, technological advancement and energy saving, fine management and energy saving, scientific response and effective resolution of environmental risks”, and taking Heli as an example to introduce the coordinated development of pollution reduction and carbon reduction The specific practices and experience emphasized that “we must start from the source, take advantage of the trend, strengthen the construction of the energy system, promote the adjustment of the energy structure and the transformation and upgrading of the industrial structure, fine management, technological transformation, energy conservation and emission reduction, and take the path of green and low-carbon development. Reduce both carbon and pollution, and realize the synergistic effect of pollution reduction and carbon reduction.”
Ni Guancao (senior economist, current president of East China Casting Association, former director and general manager of Shanghai Die Casting Plant, Shanghai Sandman Foundry Co., Ltd., etc.). He was awarded the Outstanding Contribution Award by China Powder Metallurgy Technology Innovation Alliance He also served as a senior expert and was awarded the Outstanding Contribution Award to the Foundry Industry by the China Foundry Association). With the title of “Leapfrogging-Hanshan Foundry Industry in Transformation”, he reviewed the research work done in the past three times.
The 2012 survey report pointed out that there are nearly 500 small and micro casting companies in Hanshan, which have problems such as inferior products, environmental pollution, and irregular operation. The government proposed a “four batches” remediation plan: introducing a batch of high-quality advanced The large and medium-sized foundry enterprises; the improvement and support of a number of enterprises with development prospects; the rectification and standardization of a number of enterprises to solve the problems of enterprise dispersion and centralized management; a number of enterprises with inferior products and too small scales should be eliminated. In the same year, Highly Precision Casting Co., Ltd. was determined to take root in Hanshan.
The 2015 research report focused on Highly Company and pointed out that Highly Casting is developing in Hanshan based on the “four first-class” (equipment, technology, management, and talents). The industrial transfer of foundry enterprises has set a model!”
The 2018 research report analyzed the huge pressure brought by environmental protection policies to Hanshan, the inevitability and urgency of structural adjustment, and the study of three major trends in the reform of the foundry industry. It fully affirmed the Hanshan government’s “establishment of two foundry industrial parks”. Generous”.
The latest research report analyzes the current status and advantages of representative Hanshan companies such as Highly Precision Casting, Feilong Casting, and Weilong Power, and summarizes the basic situation of the Hanshan foundry industry in the past five years: eliminating and shutting down nearly 200 “small enterprises” , Currently 184; technical equipment upgrades, automated assembly lines have reached 175; 15 with an annual production capacity of more than 10,000 tons, and 40 with an annual production capacity of more than 5,000 tons; the county’s highest is 800,000 tons, the actual output value is 5.68 billion yuan, and the tax payment is 247 million Yuan (nearly doubled in five years); 130 companies that meet environmental protection standards, accounting for more than 65%; in the past two years, more than 10 foundry-related companies have settled in Hanshan, which will bring a qualitative improvement to Hanshan Casting. The report also analyzed the environmental protection issues, energy issues, raw material price increases, labor issues and other challenges faced by the foundry industry, and put forward specific countermeasures and looked forward to the development prospects.
Huang Rongmin, Chairman of Ma’anshan Longteng Electromechanical Technology Co., Ltd., who participated in the forum, said: “I have learned a lot from participating in today’s forum. The reports of the experts have inspired me deeply and pointed out the direction for the development of our foundry industry. The next step is our company. We will closely focus on green intelligent casting, upgrade industrial technology, transform a single, low-end casting model, and develop in the direction of high-end, green, and energy-saving.”