2023 Foshan Casting, Forging, and Heat Treatment Exhibition to Commence on June 15

Date: June 15-18, 2023 Location: Foshan Tan Zhou International Convention and Exhibition Center

Introduction:

Due to the changes in the epidemic and international trade situation, the manufacturing industry supply chain has undergone new adjustments and changes. The country has introduced policies such as "new infrastructure" and "dual circulation" to promote the recovery of the manufacturing industry. With the decline in overseas supply capacity and favorable domestic policies, the high-end manufacturing industry has more characteristics of an upward cycle, activating the domestic demand market for the manufacturing industry, and promoting consumption upgrades has become one of the important ways for the Chinese manufacturing industry market to rise. A number of new formats and models have emerged, fundamentally subverting traditional work models, production models, and future business models. Artificial intelligence, Industry 4.0 solutions, and digital twins of workshops are becoming increasingly important in the future development of industry.

Guangdong is a major manufacturing province in China, and Foshan has also joined the "trillion-yuan club" of the manufacturing industry, and is one of the three major poles of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Foshan, which has established its city on manufacturing, has a strong foundation and strong strength. It is a national manufacturing industry transformation and upgrading comprehensive reform pilot city identified by the Central Finance Office and the National Development and Reform Commission, and a national manufacturing innovation center facing the world. Foshan's industrial system is well-developed, covering traditional industries such as home appliances, furniture, ceramics, machinery equipment, and metal processing. Emerging industries such as optoelectronics, new materials, biopharmaceuticals, robots, and new energy vehicles are booming, with prominent advantages, complete industrial supporting facilities, and huge market growth potential. It is a pearl city in the future development of China's manufacturing industry.

Exhibition Scope:

1. Castings, casting equipment, casting materials, casting molds, testing equipment, heat treatment, industrial furnaces, refractory materials, casting post-processing equipment, surface treatment technology and equipment, environmental protection dust removal equipment, casting/casting robots, and supporting products such as new casting technologies.

2. Die castings, die casting molds, die casting machines and peripheral equipment, die casting melting equipment, die casting raw materials, testing equipment, die casting post-processing equipment, surface treatment technology and equipment, die casting automation, die casting robots, and supporting products such as new die casting technologies.

3. Forgings, flanges and rings, forging equipment and accessories, automation, forging mold manufacturing technology and equipment, forging raw materials, heat treatment, industrial furnaces, testing equipment, forging auxiliary equipment, forging robots, forging protective products, and supporting products such as new forging technologies.

4. Various heat treatment furnaces, industrial furnaces, heat treatment production heat, induction heating technology and equipment, auxiliary equipment, process materials, quality control, surface treatment technology equipment, accessories and supporting products, energy saving and comprehensive utilization of resources, etc.

With the advancement of technology and the booming development of the foundry industry, different casting methods have different mold preparation contents. Taking the most widely used sand casting as an example, mold preparation includes two major tasks: preparation of molding materials and molding and core making. Various raw materials used for molding and core making in sand casting, such as casting raw sand, molding sand binders, and other auxiliary materials, as well as the molding sand, core sand, and coatings prepared from them, are collectively referred to as molding materials. The task of preparing molding materials is to select suitable raw sand, binders, and auxiliary materials according to the requirements of the castings and the properties of the metal, and then mix them in a certain proportion to form molding sand and core sand with certain properties. Commonly used sand mixing equipment includes wheel-type sand mixers, counter-current sand mixers, and continuous sand mixers. The latter is specially designed for mixing chemical self-hardening sand, with continuous mixing and fast sand mixing speed.

China's foundry industry has initially established a scale of specialized production. A number of specialized foundry production enterprises with unique characteristics have been formed. These enterprises mainly include: engine casting enterprises with high-density molding + advanced core making + double-linked melting; mass mechanized production of brake hubs, brake discs, exhaust pipes and other automotive castings factories; mainly resin self-hardening sand machine tools, boxes, wind power and other large castings production plants; V-process-based casting plants and lost-wax casting plants; metal molds or metal mold-coated sand-based crankshafts, grinding ball production plants; high-grade investment casting plants with silicon sol or ethyl silicate as binders; ordinary steel precision casting plants with water glass as binders; centrifugal ductile iron pipe plants and centrifugal gray iron pipe plants; non-ferrous alloy sand casting pressure (high/low/difference) casting plants, etc.