Sheet metal is a comprehensive cold working process for sheet metal (usually less than 6mm), including shearing, punching / cutting / compounding, folding, riveting, splicing, forming, etc., which is characterized by the same thickness of the same part. Sheet metal has the characteristics of light weight, high strength, low cost and large-scale mass production. It is widely used in electronic appliances, communications, automotive industry, medical devices, machinery, shipbuilding, aviation and other fields.
According to the "report on in-depth market research and investment strategy recommendations for the sheet metal industry 2019-2023" released by xinsijie Industrial Research Center, almost all manufacturing industries will involve sheet metal processing, and sheet metal is an indispensable and important part of the manufacturing industry. With the continuous expansion of the scale of China's manufacturing industry, the demand for sheet metal market is growing rapidly. From 2010 to 2016, the scale of China's sheet metal processing market continued to grow steadily; In 2017, the scale of China's sheet metal market reached about 710billion yuan, an increase of 3.1% over 2016. The scale of China's sheet metal market continues to rise, but the growth rate gradually slows down.
Due to the rapid expansion of the scale of China's manufacturing industry and the increasing demand for sheet metal processing, many foreign capital have been attracted. International sheet metal giants, including Japan Tiantian and Murata machinery, the United States Macquarie and new Meiya, Germany tongkuai and ability, have entered the domestic market layout. These enterprises occupy a dominant position in terms of capital, technology, equipment, scale, etc., have strong competitiveness, and occupy a large share in the domestic sheet metal market.
China's sheet metal industry has formed industrial clusters in the Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta and Bohai rim, but the number of strong and large-scale enterprises in the industry is small, mainly including Dongshan fine, Conghua sheet metal, Renda group, ZTE, Haili Meida and other enterprises. Most of the other enterprises are small-scale, backward technology and process, low production efficiency, and low product technology content, Compared with international giants, the industry as a whole has a large gap and weak competitiveness.
With the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, the market demand for sheet metal processing has shifted to the direction of high quality and high technology. While the scale of the sheet metal industry continues to expand, the polarization situation is becoming more and more obvious. Enterprises with backward technology and equipment, unable to meet market demand and weak ability to resist risks in the industry are gradually eliminated; Leading enterprises with large scale, strong innovation ability and good product quality are welcomed by the market, and their share is gradually rising. With the survival of the fittest in the market, the market concentration of China's sheet metal industry will gradually increase after fierce competition.
Industry insiders said that the sheet metal industry belongs to capital, technology and labor-intensive industries, and the sheet metal process mainly includes manual sheet metal, stamping sheet metal and CNC sheet metal. Driven by industrial upgrading, China's market has higher and higher requirements for the quality stability of sheet metal products. Manual sheet metal has gradually withdrawn from the market, and stamping sheet metal and CNC sheet metal have a good development trend. The gradual elimination of manual sheet metal technology will gradually eliminate many small sheet metal enterprises in China, and the industry structure will continue to be optimized. As a major manufacturing country in the world, with the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, the market demand for sheet metal products with high technical content is increasing, which will gradually enhance the revenue capacity of China's sheet metal industry.