Japanese die mold industry malaise

Mold industry in Japan is shrinking phenomenon, the recent Secretary-General Cao Yanan China Mould Industry Association believes that this is only the surface of the mold phenomenon in Japan, in fact, Japan is interested in the mold manufacturing to other countries.

When an industry develops to a certain stage, growth will inevitably slow down. Mold industry in Japan after 1998, output reached 1.87 trillion yen, after the peak, despite several years of slowdown, but still have growth, but has rebounded from last year. Also Japan is still the world's leading mold technology. Japanese die industry slowdown was mainly caused by the transfer to other countries, and not just technical problems.

The first is the Japanese domestic mold industry to China, Southeast Asia, the shift. Japan's mold production accounts for about 40%, ranking first in the world each year to export a lot of mold. Now mold increasingly competitive market, so the mold industry in Japan is also working to reduce production costs. Mold industry is an industry high labor costs, Japan's labor costs in China and Southeast Asia 10 times, while labor costs have more than 70% of non-core technical staff. So now Japan is gradually die industry is not high-tech piece of mold in areas of low labor costs shift the production, only the indigenous production of high-tech products, profitable.

Followed by Japan's major companies using the mold to speed up the transfer abroad of the trend, which the Japanese use to reduce their mold. Like with the mold industry, mechanical and electrical companies to expand overseas in order to reduce costs, middle and low mold began to switch to cheaper local mold. To this end, the mold industry in Japan is more accelerated development of mold manufacturers in overseas pace.

Japan is now the mold is indeed compared to 1998 prices fell by about 20%, but that is the expansion of Japanese overseas production base after the results of the mold. This will undoubtedly enhance the Japanese mold mold in the world market competitiveness. Therefore, Japan remains the world's mold production power, not their profits shrink, but through the mold industry to move overseas to have a stronger competitive edge. China can use this part of the outsourcing of processing methods to reduce mold production costs, speed up the production cycle.