Qilu.com Lightning News August 15th As the global casting industry structure is accelerating adjustment, on August 15, the three-day “Seventh Shandong International Foundry Industry Exhibition (hereinafter referred to as Shandong Foundry Exhibition)” grandly kicked off in Qingdao World Expo City. The exhibition is themed “Global Perspective, Accurate Positioning”. It is guided by the Shandong Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, sponsored by the Shandong Foundry Association, and co-organized by Xinchenghua International Exhibition (Shandong) Group Co., Ltd. and Chengzhi (Jinan) Science and Technology Innovation and Development Co., Ltd., and has been co-organized by more than 30 foundry associations inside and outside the province, including Shandong, Jiangsu, Hebei, etc., forming an organizational force covering all links of the industrial chain. The exhibition aims to build a high-standard exchange and cooperation hub for the global foundry industry, help enterprises to upgrade their technological transformation and intelligent transformation, and promote the industry to develop towards high-end and diversified leapfrog development.
The entire industrial chain is deployed, and the competition is 400 brand enterprises
As an important window for the development of regional casting industry, the exhibition focuses on the entire industrial chain and sets up professional exhibition areas such as high-end castings, testing instruments, environmental protection equipment, casting materials, and intelligent service providers, attracting more than 400 industry brand companies including Meide, Binglun, Magma, Ebopu, Yingda, Shengquan, Weiqiao, Changjiang, Jiechuang, Kaitai, Dingsheng, Yantai Dashi, Kailong, Shengmei, Antai, Jin Yonghe, Penglai Jinchuang to participate in the exhibition. The exhibits cover key areas such as environmentally friendly raw and auxiliary materials, smart electric furnaces and intelligent solutions. Among them, nearly 30 precision casting companies made “groups” debut, concentrating on technological breakthroughs in subdivided fields. The exhibition has a wide range of radiating, attracting nearly 100 professional visitors and buyers from counties, cities and districts in more than 10 provinces including Shandong, Hebei, Henan, etc. to negotiate. The on-site trade atmosphere is strong.
Highlights of exhibits are transformed, and Zhigreen's high-end multi-point breakthrough
The exhibits on site are full of highlights, becoming a vivid epitome of the transformation of the casting industry: high-temperature alloy castings have become the darling of low-altitude economy with their advantages of high strength and lightweight; the intelligent detection system for casting defects realizes millisecond recognition, and fully automatic casting compression molding equipment increases the production efficiency of automotive aluminum alloy wheels by 40%, demonstrating the intelligent driving force; degradable sand-shaped castings and water-based paint casting pipe fittings reduce pollution from the source, interpreting the mainstream trend of green casting; high-pressure casting motor shells in the new energy field have won the favor of automobile companies with precision technology, showing the breakthrough of casting technology in the high-end manufacturing field.
“Caocaching Supermarket” has been launched, and one-stop purchase of cost reduction is reached
During the same period of the exhibition, the “Caocai Supermarket” officially started operation. With the significant advantages of complete categories, excellent quality and lower prices than the market level, it has created a convenient and efficient “one-stop” procurement channel for buyers, effectively reducing corporate procurement costs.
Multidimensional activities gather wisdom, benchmarks lead to promote upgrades
The supporting activities during the same period are rich and diverse. The current economic situation analysis forum, the 2025 China (Qingdao) New Energy Vehicle Lightweight Components Industry Chain Cooperation and Innovation Forum and other activities were held one after another. Government, enterprise, academic and research representatives conducted in-depth discussions on hot and difficult points such as technological innovation, industrial chain collaboration, and material application, and presented suggestions for industry development. In addition, the ductile iron production technology and the third special training course on casting and smelting provides support for the industry's talent training, and the casting procurement conference builds an efficient trading bridge for both supply and demand parties to promote precise docking. In addition, the exhibition site will select and award plaques for many Shandong high-quality casting model areas represented by Dongying Precision Casting and Laizhou Brake Disk. By setting industry benchmarks, playing a demonstration and leading role, promoting the quality and upgrading of regional casting industries, and forming a development pattern of “point-to-surface”.
The foundry exhibition is of far-reaching significance. It not only builds an important platform for technological exchanges and trade cooperation for the industry, but also focuses on the direction of intelligent, green and high-end development, guides enterprises to accurately grasp the opportunities of transformation, promote collaborative innovation in the industrial chain, inject new impetus into the high-quality development of China's foundry industry, and also helps Shandong to build an internationally competitive casting industry cluster, and contributes “Shandong's strength” to the sustainable development of the global casting industry.
Lightning News reporter correspondent Yang Hua reported