You mention the “18 children” knives, people will immediately think of “chinese knives, scissors and capital” – Yangjiang City, Guangdong Province. National Hardware knives, scissors Yangjiang City is the production, sale and export of an important base, at present the city’s hardware manufacturing enterprises reached more than 1,500 knives, scissors, knives, scissors products output accounts for about 65% of the country’s export volume accounting for about 85% of the country. Yangjiang Shijingmaoju, according to the person in charge, to the end of last year, Yangjiang City, knives, scissors and manufacturers of industrial output value reached 16.0 billion, accounting for a quarter of the city’s total industrial output value.
Seem modest little Scissors manufacturing industries are able to develop National Cheng Kung University? Recently, the author at the Eighth china (Yangjiang) metal knives, scissors and Fair to find the answer.
Focus on innovation and adjustment of product structure
About Yangjiang City, “China knife city” knife Expo exhibition hall, the reporter was immediately attracted by a wide variety of tools, there is not only seen in the daily kitchen knives, scissors, multi-purpose knife, multi-purpose pliers, etc., as well as sets of knives, decorative swords, knives, scissors and garden tools such as new varieties. Alone, there are hundreds of different knife style design.
Industrial Group Co., Ltd. Guangdong YINYING a kitchen knife inside the exhibition hall caused a reporter’s curiosity. This knife looks like pure white jade-like soft and mellow colors. The exhibitors told reporters: “This is a ceramic knife is the use of nano-alumina as raw material, spray granulation, isostatic forming, precision machining and other processes is made, the blade sharp, hardness, second only to in the diamond abrasion resistance of metal knife 60 times. ”
“This kind of ceramic knife easy to sell it?” I asked.
Exhibitors officials said ceramic knife is a high-tech products, wear, sharp and not rusty, cut fruit, will not be oxidized, so a ceramic knife became very popular, enterprises also received a large number of overseas orders. Now the company has updated equipment and techniques, in order to expand production. According to reports, ceramic knives, high-tech tools, it’s expensive raw material prices, the cost is also higher than traditional tools, but its high added value, prices many times higher than traditional tools.
Leave YINYING group exhibition, I came to Yangjiang Group Co., Ltd. has 18 sub-classical style pavilion. “18 children as” the national well-known trademarks, 18 Sub-Group is the largest in the city of Yangjiang Scissors manufacturers. It is understood that, in order to cope with the international financial crisis, 18 sub-group has taken various measures to tide over the crisis, if we insist on factory management, and enhance employee participation; enhancing professional training to upgrade staff quality; with national policies, development of rural markets. 18 Sub-Group’s launch of the “Harmony One” products, by a combination of knives and kitchen utensils, this product will come from staff training to learn when the ideas.
In Yangjiang City, a small Star (Group) Co., Ltd. exhibition hall, with blue, green, pale pink knives, spoons and other new products, the whole colorful exhibition hall, the exhibition of products to customers in color on a large selection of space.
Yongguang Scissors Group Co., Ltd., Guangdong, Yangjiang City, Qiao daughter Kitchen Industry Co., Ltd., Scissors manufacturers are constantly updated manufacturing technology in recent years, and actively adjust the product mix, product and market segments continue to strive to win the competition in the differentiation opportunities.
Figures show that, as of last year, Yangjiang City, have won a number of knives, scissors and enterprise “National Famous Trademark” and “national exemption product” title, there are seven Chinese knives, scissors and well-known brand enterprises, 20 enterprises received the title of provincial high-tech enterprises, 1800 the whole industry has a number of national patents.
Broaden the domestic and foreign markets to widen the channel
Yangjiang City, which exports 70% of the metal knives, scissors, knives, scissors and export volume accounting for about 85% of exports.
In response to the international financial crisis, the 18 sub-groups strive to achieve “size does not cut to keep and maintain the cohesion of the wage reduction, maintaining the confidence of non-redundancy, stability and industry, not reduced.” Their active implementation of the “knife to the countryside”, developing the rural market, the new design of “new countryside One,” cutter products at low prices to meet the consumer demand of farmers and occupied a large share of the rural market.
18 Sub-Group is also active use of science and technology, energy-saving down to this. They developed a high nitrogen stainless steel, stainless steel added to the existing nitrogen, so that the ordinary high-carbon high-chromium stainless steel to achieve the effect, not only cost savings, but also in line with the EU SGS certification of new product standards.
18 sub-groups to actively encourage foreign agents in recent years to open up foreign markets, and strive to do more to foreign markets. These expanded foreign demand, but also enhanced the anti-18 sub-groups of the international financial crisis.
Advantages the formation of industrial clusters
Yangjiang City, Scissors production has been 1,400 years of history. 40s in the last century, where production of the “season Fu Knife” was sent to the World’s Fair exhibition, which is known at home and abroad.
After the reform and opening up, Yangjiang city, originally part of the state of some knife-making factory technicians and skilled workers have begun to establish their own knives, scissors and manufacturers. In the fierce market competition, Yangjiang City, Scissors manufacturing has improved continuously, new products, new technology emerging, knives, scissors Yangjiang, manufacturing has become the most unique business.
According to reports, Yangjiang municipal government has been trying to create Scissors Yangjiang City, have also become a main building industry, has introduced a series to encourage, support knives, scissors and enterprise development policies and measures: in 2000, Yangjiang City Hardware Scissors Industry Association established; 2002 Year built a building area of up to 2 million square meters of knives, scissors and professional market – China Tool City; in 2002, organized the first China (Yangjiang) International Hardware Fair knives, scissors, knives, scissors and Expo held once a year thereafter for the hardware industry, knives, scissors and manufacturers, distributors, buyers and other structures of a wide trading platform has won the broad participation of Chinese and foreign businessmen; in 2008, the State General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and the Yangjiang municipal government jointly invested 50 million yuan, located in Yangjiang city of Guangdong Provincial Quality Supervision and Inspection Center for hardware based on the formation of the national knives, scissors and daily metal tools Quality Supervision and Inspection Center.
In recent years, Yangjiang, knives, scissors and the industry to flourish. Yangjiang Shijingmaoju, according to the person in charge, as at the end of 2008, in Yangjiang City, knives, scissors and production enterprises, 350 enterprises above designated size, the annual output from 50 million to 100 million yuan in business 15, the annual output value of yuan business 11.
At present, Yangjiang City, initially formed from the stainless steel smelting, knives, scissors and machinery, spare parts processing, mold manufacturing, heat treatment, electroplating, packaging science and technology R & D, technological innovation, business information, logistics and distribution of industrial chains, knives, scissors and industries gradually Yangjiang the formation of specialized division of labor, socialization, cooperation and common development, production patterns.