For a long time, we have some misunderstanding of our steel casting industry and believe that our country faced the problem of huge overcapacity of steel castings

The actual situation is different. The so-called overcapacity refers to the overcapacity of steel-castings with low quality, The steel castings with middle and high quality still can not meet the need of market.

So the processing factories of steel castings like slag ladle need to transform the requirements for productive capacity of low-end steel castings into the requirements for high-end steel castings .What shoud we do and what difficulties shoud we resolve?

Difficulties in technique and professional production experience

The production of steel castings such as slag ladles in our country has went through three development stages including “introduction, absorption an re-innovation” in tne area of technique.

We have accumulated rich experience of techniques and professional production capacity in every step of industry processing,

The excellent enterprises in this industry both have paticular proprietary techniques in some area, which help them gain their core competence.

But with the continuously speeding up of innovation in casting industry, the huge steel casting enterprises should catch up with the step of time and should strengthen the ability of independent innovation. According to the need of customers and the continuously changing market, the casting manufacturing enterprises should produce new products with high quality and low energy consumption to meet the unique requirement of customers.

Difficulties in customer resource

The production of huge steel castings has the characteristics of multispecies, various specifications, small amount and developing to special requirement. The production standard of enterprise is the demands of clients.

Usually, in the process of authentication for steel casting suppliers, customers need to go through the several steps involving in “ site inspection, examination of key industrial technique, check for quality control and trial production”. The whole period may be 1-2 years.

Because the period of examination is long and will cost too much, customers will not easily change suppliers if qualified suppliers can provide steel casting products with fine quality in a long term. The stable and long term of cooperation relationship give enterprises in casting industry which enter the market later high client resource

Capital difficulties.

On one side, the casting manufacturing companies must have the corresponding scale of asset investment if they wants to produce in a large quantities. On the other side, the new company which just step into the market must have enough money because the manufacturing operation requires large cash flow and the rising of casting raw material.

Talents difficulties

The huge casting industry has lots of production steps and complicate techniques .It needs excellent research people and technique engineers not only in the area of technology of research and development , but also in the production workshop. It takes long time to train a qualified technician, at the same time , It also needs proper supporting facilities. The bottleneck of human resource will directly limit the fast developing of casting enterprises.