Current market demand for the casting industry is huge. However, in order to expand markets, products to increase the quality foundry industry, companies must increase their capacity. Mr. Pham Anh Tuan, Deputy Director of the Heavy Industry Department - Ministry of Industry and Trade, 2015, molded products can compete with the same products in the region, now need to settle down the limitations of the industry.

Since many support policies of the State for the industry, the technology sector over time casting Vietnam has achieved very positive developments. Molded products exported to Southeast Asian countries and some other countries. Most exported product in two types as a single molded products (reaching 1.424 million in 2010); products in equipment, machinery exports as in diesel engines (US $ 35-40 million in 2010), in a variety of other tools like pumps of all kinds, harvester ... We can export the details of cast iron, wear-resistant steel, heat resistant cement industry, the ice chain for metallurgy industry ...

However, according to experts, molded products produced in the country only partially satisfy the essential needs of domestic markets, mainly gray cast iron, steel castings for the mechanical engineering industry, all kinds of cast iron, corrosion resistant alloy steel, abrasive for mining, construction, and the majority of which must be imported in the form of synchronous assembly accessories. So last time, Vietnam's trade deficit a lot of mechanical products and markets molded products in foreign countries are manipulating the market share of domestic enterprises gradually smaller.

According to Pham Anh Tuan, stitching embryogenesis, a very important part of the engineering industry, the manufacturing base is still used mainly by sand mold casting technology, low-quality castings, high failure rates ( where up to 30%), outsourcing much excess. In countries have not experienced high precision casting products, not casting the steel grade and durable quality. Technology to create embryos by means of plastic deformation of metal in the hot state (rolling, forging, stamping) is poor, unable to meet market requirements. Thermal stitching, quality surface treatment products incomplete, affect the quality of the finished product details. Metalworking sewn by cutting still use the outdated machine tools, inaccuracies, classic engineering methods, low level of automation.

According to Tuan, the whole industry is a lack of qualified factory modern technology, key, centered for specialization and cooperation, an important requirement of production of mechanical and industrial support ash.

Meanwhile, according to experts, the market for foundry products is huge. Demand for molded products for the domestic industry in 2010-2020 focused on mechanical engineering industry needs about 689 thousand tons of castings in 2020 to serve agriculture, forestry and fisheries engineering, food processing products, machine tools, construction machines ... transport sector needs 817 thousand tons of castings in 2020 for production - assembly of cars, motorcycles, trains ... other industries such as electricity, metallurgy, mining, cement, marine, water supply ... also need a lot of details molded products. Predicting demand for molded products 1.927 million tons in the country will be approximately 2,500,000 tons in 2020 and 2025. In the short term, in the next 5-10 years, the details of cast iron, precision castings made of aluminum with high complexity, with special features to serve the transportation industry, the industry is very promising.

Foundry products are also significant export market. General Director of Saigon Industry Corporation, Nguyen Huu Tho said that the market alone, Japan and Korea, every year can import hundreds of thousands of tons of products if quality castings. US markets are North America and is one of the largest consumer markets fabricated metal products. Whether producers of fabricated metal products the world's largest, the US industry remains heavily dependent on imports to meet demand, each year the US imported about 20% of demand for cast iron. However, export markets demanding technical requirements for molded products, the embryo for the mechanical engineering industry with high demands on quality, beautiful surfaces, high accuracy of geometric dimensions , zero defects, ensuring many chemical components, mechanical properties ...

To develop casting industry, Pham Ba Kiem, Science and Technology Institute of mine - metallurgical said that the important need to do is to build a system of casting enterprises for both industries, or for a wide-area, highly specialized direction to focus equipment, technology, personnel and financial resources; construction and small businesses as satellite support for large enterprises. In particular, focus on investment in a uniform equipment and technology to ensure product quality, low cost, environmental protection. Besides building the system should also research institutions to grasp the economic information, technical, research and application of advanced technology to manufacture the molded products of high quality and economic efficiency pig. There are so 2015 Vietnam molded products can compete with the same products in the region.

According to statistics, in 2010 there were about 390 enterprises, base molding and related products casting industry in 43 provinces with more than 92 thousand tons production of cast iron, almost 6 thousand tons of copper, more than 1.2 million tons of steel castings ... The DN, base molding industry concentrated in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Thai Nguyen, Hai Phong, Quang Ninh, Hai Duong, Dong Nai, Binh Duong.

Recently, HCMC, an investment project Factory products manufactured mechanical key southern Industry Corporation Saigon Ho Chi Minh City has been approved for construction in an area of ​​30 hectares in the district Binh Chanh with an investment of 2,800 billion VND. The plant will produce metal embryo production by molding, forging, stamping high quality, equivalent to the developed countries such as Korea, Taiwan ..., provides mechanical processing units in the domestic and export and contribute to reducing the metal billet import from abroad, ensuring the autonomy in production - business for the domestic engineering companies. The plant is completing procedures to enjoy the preferential policies for key mechanical products and production investment projects of key mechanical products from the State.

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Dong Nai has 10 foundry pig iron, steel is concentrated in Thanh Phu commune, Vinh Cuu district and Tam Phuoc commune, Long Thanh district, casting a monthly average of more than 200 tons of finished products for production facilities, processing auxiliary supply components for mechanical engineering enterprises in the province. Whether operating at full capacity, but is the product of the two above-mentioned villages can only meet a small part of the market demand due to tight production spaces, owners dare not invest by district rules planning for iron casting village in the Eternal implemented slowly ...
 
Mr. Le Van Ut, the Chairman of the Cooperative (Cooperative) in the village of iron casting iron casting Trong Nghia Thanh Phu Vinh Cuu district, said: The time of cooperative production capacity reached 120 tons / month, mainly crude goods , while the market demand of up to 200 tons monthly, mostly of foreign enterprises in the province to stand legs. Although the cooperative wanted to expand production, especially by switching from coal to furnace casting foundry to improve quality electrical products, but because of the situation awaiting relocation to a new planning area, the cooperative should not dare head from. According to his calculations Arabia, each batch of traditional cast iron in the furnace pig iron now only interest is about 250 VND / kg pig iron, whereas if the cast iron is machined to the finished products will be profitable to 700 VND / kg, wanted so to have the machines such as shot blasting machines, lathes, welding and foundry requires organizations to be larger scale and not be in a residential area as it will cause cell imbue. Because anonymous production relocation pending moderation in industrial complexes, production of cast iron fireplace is not as effective as desired.
                        
At the steel foundry engineering Co., Ltd. in Tam Phuoc Duyen Hai, Long Thanh District, an average monthly export company about 100 tons of steel castings for customers from Da Nang to the. Mr. Do Ngoc Ha, director of the company to introduce: The company is doing cone blender for a company stone quarrying in the province of Ba Ria - Vung Tau. The company's foundry products are mainly steel Coast with 2 main categories: chewing function to grip the stone used for mining and stone mill taper for construction. Mr. Ha said the company's casting special nature, subject to bumps and abrasion resistant material should not be able to use normal iron that must be used to cast manganese steel.
 
To develop iron casting village, traditional steel, Dong Nai, Vinh Cuu district assigned to carry out the project to restore and develop iron casting in Thanh Phu commune, but so far after 1 year, places to di iron casting village relocation has not yet been implemented. Dr. Nguyen Thanh Liem, Director of the Center of Dong Nai promotion said: During the past year along with DPC Center Eternal surveyed numerous locations but are not reached. When a new location, Dong Nai industrial extension centers will support the cost of consultants and 60% of funds to build infrastructure to facilitate the sweet iron foundry, steel stronger development. /.

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