Qilu.com·Lightning News October 11 On the 11th, reporters learned from the press conference on the results of the high-quality development of the foundry industry in Weifang that Weifang is an important foundry industry base in the country, with more than 500 foundry companies, 37,000 employees, and an annual casting output of 3 million tons. . In recent years, Weifang City has continued to promote the transformation and upgrading of the foundry industry. The high-quality development of the foundry industry has achieved remarkable results, and has achieved “six-level standards” such as equipment technology level, environmental protection, safety and energy saving, industrial collaboration and supporting capabilities, industrial concentration, technological innovation capabilities, and enterprise operation quality. “Significant improvement”, the transformation and upgrading of Weifang's foundry industry has been encouraged by the State Council's supervision and commended by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and it has been rated as the country's first pilot city for the high-quality development of the foundry industry. Fangzi District and Qingzhou City were respectively awarded the titles of “China's Grooved Pipe Fittings Casting Industry Base” and “China's Casting Industry Cluster Pilot City” by the China Foundry Association.
Taking the opportunity of being rated as a national pilot city for the high-quality development of the foundry industry, the city compiled the “Weifang City Foundry Industry High-Quality Development Action Plan (2023-2025)”, which clarified the overall idea, development goals, main tasks and guarantees of the pilot work measure. Since the launch of the pilot work, the city's foundry industry has vigorously implemented eight projects including innovation drive, cultivation of high-quality enterprises, and digital transformation and intelligent transformation, and the pilot work has achieved fruitful results.
Weifang's high-quality foundry industry development pilot achieved major results
The digital transformation and intelligent transformation work has entered the fast lane. The “Weifang City Foundry Enterprises Digital Intelligent Transformation and Upgrade Evaluation Standards” was issued to solidly promote the digital and intelligent transformation and upgrading of foundry enterprises, and cultivate a number of digital transformation and intelligent transformation demonstration enterprises such as Weichai Material Forming Center, Haomai, Haoxin, and Jin Yonghe. Among them, Weichai Material Forming Center has invested more than 300 million yuan to build 6 intelligent grinding lines and carry out automated transformation of various production processes. Currently, there are 145 sets of robots in use, with an automation rate of 62%. The digital foundry full-process management and control platform project, led by Beijing Machinery Science and Technology Institute of Lightweight Research and implemented by Shandong Yibaitong Company, was included in the list of pilot projects unveiled by the Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology in the “Hundred Scenes of Industry and Talents”. The intelligent unit control and management project of the smelting workshop applied by the Beijing Machinery Science and Technology Institute of Lightweight Engineering was included in the first batch of Weifang City's list of application scenarios for industrial digital transformation and intelligent transformation.
New breakthroughs were made in cultivating high-quality enterprises. Continuously improve the system, improve policies, optimize services, and increase efforts to cultivate high-quality enterprises in the casting and other manufacturing industries. After years of development, a number of national first-class foundry enterprises such as Weichai Material Forming Center, Haoxin Group, and Haomai Machinery have been cultivated. The city's 10 key enterprises will have a casting output of 1.01 million tons in 2023, accounting for 37% of the city's output. There were 9 national-level individual manufacturing champions, 49 provincial-level individual manufacturing champions, and 120 provincial-level specialized and new enterprises. At the China International Foundry Expo, 10 companies in the city won awards for their exhibits, ranking first in the country in terms of the number of awards. The exhibited products of Halma Technology won the highest award “Special Gold Award for High Quality Castings”. In the review of the “Standard Conditions for Foundry Enterprises”, a total of 63 enterprises in the city met the standard conditions for foundry enterprises, ranking first in the country in number, laying a solid foundation for the high-quality development of the city's foundry industry.
Technological innovation capabilities have reached a new level. Upstream and downstream enterprises in the foundry industry chain continue to strengthen innovation collaboration, the industry's technological innovation capabilities have significantly improved, and technological innovation has led to comprehensive improvements in quality and quantity. The city's foundry enterprises have 23 well-known Chinese trademarks, 5 Chinese famous brand products, 32 Shandong Province famous brand products, and 122 R&D institutions at or above the provincial level. Weichai Power launched the world's first diesel engine with a thermal efficiency of 53.09%, breaking the world record four times in a row. In 2023, Weifang foundry companies obtained a total of 816 patents.
Main experiences and practices in high-quality development of Weifang foundry industry
Weifang is an important base for the national foundry industry. The Weifang Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government attach great importance to the high-quality development of the foundry industry, and have explored and formed a “Weifang Model” that can be replicated and promoted, which can be summarized as adhering to the “Four Combinations”:
Adhere to the combination of government guidance and expert guidance. The Weifang Municipal Government has established a leading group for the transformation and upgrading of the foundry industry. The deputy mayor in charge serves as the team leader, and the development and reform, industry and information, ecology, emergency and other departments are members. A linkage mechanism with division of labor and close cooperation has been established. Strengthening top-level design, the “Implementation Opinions on the Transformation and Upgrading of the Foundry Industry in Weifang”, “The Action Plan for the High-Quality Development of the Foundry Industry in Weifang (2023-2025)”, and the “Evaluation Standards for Digital and Intelligent Transformation and Improvement of Foundry Enterprises in Weifang” and other documents have been issued. The country took the lead in formulating 37 rectification and improvement acceptance standards in safety production, technology and technology, equipment energy conservation, environmental protection and other aspects. Strengthening cooperation with high-end industry institutions such as the China Foundry Association, more than 200 experts have been hired to participate in the transformation and upgrading of the foundry industry, providing intellectual support for the high-quality development of the foundry industry.
Adhere to the combination of typical leadership and overall advancement. In the process of transformation and upgrading, “one enterprise, one policy” was implemented. 787 enterprises formulated personalized rectification and improvement plans. A total of 498 enterprises passed the rectification and acceptance inspection, and 289 enterprises were shut down. For enterprises that have passed the acceptance inspection, we will help complete the procedures for project filing, environmental assessment, energy assessment, land and other aspects. Guide counties and cities to base themselves on reality and continuously explore new models and practices for transformation and upgrading. The city has selected 6 counties and cities including Fangzi District, Changle County, and Weicheng District and 10 enterprises such as Weichai and Haoxin as models to lead the city's foundry enterprises to accelerate the pace of transformation.
Adhere to the combination of building a service platform internally and strengthening exchanges and collaboration externally. Foundry associations at the city and county levels and the Weifang Green Foundry Industry Alliance were established to serve the development of local enterprises. Adopting a multi-party co-construction model of “scientific research institutions + leading enterprises + local governments”, a shared system consisting of four platforms including Shandong Province's digital green casting technology and equipment innovation service platform has been built. It has successively organized counties, cities, departments and enterprises to inspect and learn advanced experience in Hebei, Shanghai and other places, organized enterprises to participate in various foundry annual conferences and exhibitions, held the Shandong (Weifang) Equipment Manufacturing Expo for many consecutive years, and hosted the 4th National Foundry Industry Safety, Environmental Protection and Energy Saving Summit Forum, the 8th China Foundry Industry Cluster Annual Conference and Weifang Foundry Industry High-Quality Development Experience Exchange Meeting.
We must persist in combining the elimination of backwardness with the development of advanced development. Make subtractions and eliminate outdated equipment. Promote the complete withdrawal of backward process equipment such as clay sand manual molding and aluminum shell electric furnaces. Advanced electric furnaces, molding lines, industrial robots, etc. have been widely promoted and applied, and the equipment level of the entire industry has been greatly improved. Make additions and cultivate advanced production capacity. Introducing a number of well-known domestic enterprises and scientific research institutions such as the General Institute of Mechanical Science and Guangxi Lanke, and organizing and implementing a number of high-end casting projects such as the intelligent transformation of Weichai core molding and cleaning processes. Build parks and create an industrial ecology. During the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, 11 foundry industrial parks were planned and constructed, and the industrial ecology was significantly optimized.
Lightning News reporter Li Tao and Zhou Wenqing reported from Weifang