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MYTHS : METAL MANUFACTURING 8 TRUE MYTHS ABOUT METAL MANUFACTURING

Introduction

Metal Manufacturing is referred to applying machining and tooling skills on a raw metal sheet to transform it into a new designed and structured metal product. Metal Manufacturing is a big source of employment and import & export of metal products. Metal manufacturing and mold making is vast in China and other countries. There are a number of mold making companies in China.

This report consists of some very true facts about Metal Manufacturing.

STEPS FOLLOWED IN METAL MANUFACTURING

Metal manufacturing is a vast process. It includes several steps and processes which

result in final metal product developement. Some important steps followed in metal

manufacturing process are:

1.Feasibility Study : This include the study of availability of the resources, needed in the

process of metal manufacturing.

eg : To make a plastic injection mold as a product, a mold making company should

study the availability of the resources for injection mold making as ‘plastic mold

manufacturer’ and many more.

2. Requirement analysis : This includes the actual requirement of the final product to

fulfill. What should a product result after production is the main requirement to be

considered.

3. Designing : This step includes the designing part of the product on computers and

designing softwares as CAD and AUTO-CAD, and many more.

4. Manufacturing : The designed part is now operated for manufacturing by machining

and tooling processes.

eg : After designing some die casting parts they need to be operated by some die

casting processes as cnc machining services , prototyping manufacturing and many more.

After these processes operated by some skilled die casting manufacturers

5. Product Delivery : All the products like as ‘die casting parts’ , ‘injection molding parts’ ,

‘precision machining parts’ , ‘cnc machining parts’ and many more are delivered to the

customers as per the time period.

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8 MYTHS ABOUT METAL MANUFACTURING IN CHINA

1. Chinese exports to the U.S., which jumped 40% in January from a year earlier,

have further depressed prices already hurt by an oil-drilling slowdown and

the resulting slump in demand for steel pipes and tube. Demands were also

on injection molding parts and die casting parts by mold making companies in

China

2. Both the U.S. and the EU already have tariffs in place on a handful of Chinese

injection mold manufacturing products, but mold making companies call them

insufficient.

3. In December, Korea’s Hyundai plastic mold manufacturer and Dongkuk plastic

mold manufacturer, filed a proposal for an anti-dumping duty of 18% to 33%

on injection molding parts.

4. In India, where imports of some lower-priced Chinese injection molding parts

have surged by close to 200% year-on-year between April 2014 and January

2015, some injection mold manufacturing companies are seeking trade

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measures including higher duties.

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6. China’s plastic mold manufacturers benefit from relatively low-cost labor and

inputs such as injection molding parts.

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7. Analysts pointed to the Chinese currency. “The weakening renminbi was also

a factor in encouraging exports,” said Ben Huang, Director Artetooling China

8. In 2012, China’s trade surplus stood at 231 billion U.S. dollars and its exports

totaled 2.05 trillion U.S. dollars, up nearly 8 percent from the previous year. China

overtook Germany as the largest exporting nation in 2009.

9. The United States ranked second with exports amounted to 1.48 trillion U.S.

dollars, while Germany came in third with 1.47 trillion U.S. dollars as of 2011. In

the same year, China’s export of injection molding parts and rapid prototyping

services constituted 26 % of GDP.

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