The output of China's presses ranked first in the world for nine consecutive years

As an "industrial mother machine" for polymer molding, China's plastics machinery industry has remained stable during the "11th Five-Year Plan" period in the face of complex and ever-changing domestic and international economic conditions and India's adverse impact on China's anti-dumping of injection molding machines. Faster growth.

Qian Yaoen, vice president of the China Plastics Machinery Industry Association, said in an interview with a reporter from the China Industry News in Beijing that since the beginning of the 21st century, China’s plastics machinery industry has achieved sustained and rapid development and is one of the fastest growing industries in the country. Economic indicators rank in the forefront of the national machinery industry. As of 2009, China's plastics machinery production has been ranked first in the world for nine consecutive years, becoming the world's largest producer, consumer, and exporter of plastics machinery.

The rapid expansion of application areas "Without polymer materials represented by plastics, there will be no rapid development of today's highly civilized life and high technology." In Qian Yaoen's view, plastic machinery in various industries and people's lives in the national economy The field has been widely used as a new type of structural material juxtaposed with metal, wood and cement, and has played an irreplaceable role in the remaining three major materials.

According to Su Dongping, the general secretary of the China Plastics Machinery Industry Association, all plastic materials must be processed by plastic machinery and molds before they can be formed into products. Therefore, plastic machinery is not only the main technical equipment of the plastics industry, but also aerospace and defense. The indispensable equipment for industries such as petrochemicals, electronics, optoelectronics, biomedicine, new energy, construction materials, packaging, electrical appliances, automobiles and transportation, agriculture, and light industry.

With the rapid development of science and technology, and the general trend of circular economy and new-type industrialization, plastics, an important material for resource conservation, will be further expanded in the application of various industries in the national economy. Qian Yaoen cited examples of new uses of foam in energy saving and environmental protection of buildings, new applications of bioplastics in medical devices and artificial organs, applications of new special engineering plastics in aerospace and other fields with high temperature and high strength. All of these have made the plastics machinery industry more room for development.

The data show that per capita consumption of plastic products in China in 2005 was 29.5 kilograms, and it reached 46 kilograms in 2008, a rapid increase, but as early as 2005, per capita annual plastic consumption in the United States, Belgium, and Germany reached 171 Kilograms, 169 kilograms, and 155 kilograms, the gap between China and the above countries exceeds three times. Therefore, the market demand for China's plastic products and plastic machinery will continue to grow, and there is great room for development.

Significant enhancements in driving performance Qian Yaoen told reporters that plastics machinery is a working machine for modern manufacturing, and its plastic parts are widely used in all walks of life, and their driving ability to other industries is very strong.

It is reported that in the past three years, the total output value of China's plastics machinery was 80.664 billion yuan, which not only directly stimulated the plastics processing industry to create a total output value of more than 3 trillion yuan, but also promoted the sustained and rapid development of all walks of life. The economic benefits are self-evident.

Since entering the 21st century, China's plastics machinery industry has achieved a leap-forward development. In 2001, the total industrial output value was 8.16 billion yuan. By the end of 2005, it had reached 18.873 billion yuan, which was 2.3 times that of 2001. During the "11th Five-Year Plan" period, the industry economy maintained a momentum of rapid development. By 2009, the total industrial output value had risen to 25.848 billion yuan, about 3.2 times that of 2001. At the same time, the economic indicators such as total industry sales, total exports, total profits, and total assets have all been significantly improved.

Steady Development of Industrial Clusters After more than 50 years of development, China's plastics machinery industry has initially formed a relatively concentrated production cluster. It is mainly distributed in the three regions of the Bohai Sea, the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta.

The Bohai Rim region mainly consists of Tianjin, Beijing, Dalian of Liaoning, Qingdao of Shandong, Jinan, and other regions. According to regional economic characteristics, a number of industrial clusters based on plastic extrusion and rubber-plastic products are formed, so plastic extrusion machinery And its related supporting products are more developed.

The Yangtze River Delta region is dominated by Shanghai, Nanjing, Zhangjiagang, Kunshan, Ningbo, Zhoushan, and Wenzhou. The plastic products industry is relatively developed, and there is a large demand for plastic machinery and a full range of varieties. At the same time, relatively characteristic industrial clusters are formed, such as Nanjing, Zhangjiagang and Shanghai, which are mainly plastic extruders; Ningbo is mainly plastic injection molding machines, and they are known as the capital of China's plastic machinery. Zhoushan is known as “China. "The screw capital", the plastic injection, extrusion, hollow, rotomolding machinery and other products in the Yangtze River Delta region have certain advantages at home and abroad.

The Pearl River Delta has now established a number of production bases with independent research and development capabilities and production scales for injection molding, extrusion, and die casting. It has also driven the rapid development of the related basic parts and components processing market in the region. It has formed a complete set of supporting facilities in the country. Modern plastic machinery and equipment manufacturing industry cluster.

The strength of science and technology is increasingly strong. Qian Yaoen told reporters that under the impetus of reform and opening up, the scientific and technological forces in China's plastics machinery industry have undergone historic changes. At present, the press industry has more than 2,000 researchers. The China Plastics Machinery Industry Association also set up an industry expert committee in 2008 to hire a group of industry experts and created a team of leading scientists and technicians combined with production, education and research.

It is reported that more than 10 colleges and universities across the country have set up the plastics molding machinery industry and have master's degree qualifications. Among them, two key universities have set up doctoral programs. There are 3 state-level professional research centers—National Engineering Research Center for New Polymer Molding Equipment, Plastics Machinery Technology Development Center, and National Engineering Research Center for Rubber Molds, 4 state-level enterprise technology centers, provincial-level key laboratories and projects. There are 1 research center, 16 provincial enterprise technology centers, 38 municipal enterprise technology centers, and 6 postdoctoral workstations. There are one first batch of innovative companies in the country and three pilot units for provincial and municipal innovative companies.

It is worth mentioning that as the industry's scientific and technological strength has increased, the technological level of China's plastics machinery industry has been getting smaller and smaller compared with developed countries. Some products have reached the world's advanced level, and some technologies and products rank among the top in the world. .

For example, the dynamic plasticizing processing method and equipment for polymer materials invented by the National Engineering Research Center for Novel Polymer Polymer Forming Equipment of South China University of Technology has a revolutionary breakthrough in the theory and practice of plasticizing in the world, and has obtained more than a dozen Western developed countries. Patent. Recently, the center has invented plastics processing technology and equipment for polymer materials based on tensile rheology. It is another major innovation in the field of polymer plastics processing and plastics machinery at home and abroad.

The 200,000 t/year large-scale extrusion and granulation unit jointly researched and developed by Beijing University of Chemical Technology and Dalian Rubber & Plastics Machinery Co., Ltd. broke the decades of technological ** in developed countries and made the design and manufacture of such equipment in China. Ranked among the best in the world; Precision Injection Molding Machine jointly developed by Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Zhejiang University and Ningbo Haitian Group has greatly improved the market share of domestic precision injection machines and the competitiveness of China's injection molding machines in the international market; research and development of Beijing University of Chemical Technology Precision extrusion molding equipment has been successfully applied in the production of automotive fuel hoses, automotive hydraulic hoses, and medical catheters, reaching the advanced level of similar international equipment.

During the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period, the product structure of the entire industry has been continuously optimized, not only independently developing a large number of new products that are large-scale, sophisticated, complex, and have high-tech content, such as servo-driven injection molding machines, large-scale hollow molding machines, and special wood-plastic cones. Twin-screw extrusion equipment, mining double-pull double-resistance plastic grid production line, 35kV dry cross-linked cable production line, biaxially stretched cell membrane production line, multi-layer composite film production line, large-diameter double-wall corrugated pipe production line, and large-diameter steel Quality anti-corrosion (3PE) drag reduction (resin) internal and external composite pipe production equipment have reached the international advanced level in the same period.

Qian Yaoen told reporters that China's plastics machine industry has also cultivated a number of well-known domestic and foreign brand-name products, at present, the entire industry has three Chinese famous brand products, one well-known trademark in China.