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18th Global Foundry Sourcing Conference 2016 Was Successfully Held in Shanghai

18^th Global Foundry Sourcing Conference 2016, China Casting Exporting Conference and China Foundry Conference were successfully held at Shanghai Everbright Int’l Hotel during April 20-21. It was organized by Suppliers China Co., Ltd., co-sponsored by National Technical Committee 54 on Foundry of Standardization Administration of China. The event aims to build a procurement negotiation, market analysis, technical communication platform for foundry industry. The conference attracted more than 600 delegates at home and abroad. Activity information is as following:

China Casting Exporting Conference in the morning of April 20

As we all know, China is the world's largest casting production and consumption country, but the proportion of casting exports only accounts for 10%, which is mainly concentrated on low-end products. In recent years, due to the stagnant global economic environment, multinational corporations have showed the weak demand for castings; the buyers have carried out cost reduction plans such as transfer the low added-value casting purchase orders from China to Southeast Asia and other countries with cheaper labor. Casting production enterprises in China not only have suffered the lower demand from buyers, but also faced the pressure of capital, labor and environmental protection. The advantage of low cost in Chinese foundry industry is gradually disappearing. If we don’t improve labor productivity, casting quality, reduce the cost of production, change the competitive strategy, the brutal market will ruthlessly eliminate a large number of enterprises which are not competitive.

How to survive under the new economic situation? Casting production enterprises hope that they can negotiate with multinational buyers with procurement projects, as well as can know the latest purchasing trends, multinational procurement processes and supplier audit standards. Casting production enterprises also hope to learn from advanced experienced enterprise, in order to enhance the comprehensive strength of the enterprise, undertake more quality orders, expand export share, and improve product added value.

According to the demand of China casting export enterprises, FSC prepared this academic activity during the 18^th Global Foundry Sourcing Conference, invited industry senior experts, multinational buyers, and casting production enterprises to make a report from the point of "export of casting". The followings are the topics:

Senior experts -- Chinese Academy of agricultural mechanization, former vice president Mr. Zhang Boming made a presentation with the topic of “Problems Encountered in the Casting Export Process and the Countermeasures For it". He analyzed the domestic casting industry export situation and the underlying causes and the common problems encountered in exporting. Mr. Zhang also analyzed the reasons for three European buyers failed in Chinese supplier development, and put forward some suggestions for domestic enterprises. Mr. Zhang’s report was close to reality, thus won the unanimous praise from participants.

Senior experts -- National Technical Committee 54 on Foundry of Standardization Administration of China deputy secretary Mr. Zhang Yin made a presentation from the points of foundry industry national standard, international standard, domestic and international standard differences. Mr. Zhang hopes to provide support technical standards for casting export enterprises by raising the level of standard service, and suggested that capable enterprises can actively participate in the revise work of foundry industry national standard, to enhance the enterprise's soft power.

Overseas buyer -- Canadian Ferrotech Menard, Inc. CEO -- Mr. Yves Menard has been engaged in casting procurement for nearly 20 years in China and has a rich procurement experience. The purpose for this trip to China is to analyze Chinese parts procurement trend, advantages and disadvantages of Chinese foundry enterprises, opportunities and challenges from the view of the North American buyers with the actual procurement case analysis. He also proposed some comments and suggestions for the development of Chinese foundry enterprises.

China Procurement Center of Multinational Group -- Sulzer purchasing manager Mr. Su Dayong made a report about "Supplier Development Process for Multinational Groups". With 7 years foundry production experience, 14 years of casting supplier development and supply chain management experience, Mr. Su introduced in detail the six channels of multinational supplier development, seven standards of supplier evaluation, the composition of  procurement team personnel, the division of functions and supplier audition as well as supplier maintenance process, to help the domestic foundry enterprises understand the international group procurement process and facilitate their deal with buyers.

Domestic large-scale buyer -- from purchaser's viewpoint, purchasing manager Mr. Zhang Mingzhe from Yutong Group gave an in-depth analysis about quality, cost, delivery, service and technology. He did a report on "Casting QCDTS" and offered comments and suggestions to the suppliers.

Ms. Emma Kombrinkof from Latin America Markets, LLC did a specific report on “Latin America Casting Exporting Situation and Market Development Suggestions", hoping to help domestic enterprises explore Latin America market.

Mr. Birger Vinck from German Vinck Agency for Consulting and Trading (VACT) shared his ideas from marketing, procurement and technology about successful casting procurement and foundry new trends. To meet Chinese foundries demand, he also introduced the trend and development of German casting industry, the differences between Chinese and German foundries, the internationalization of Chinese foundries and investment.

Excellent casting exporting enterprise -- manager Mr. Wang Rui from Impro (China) Co., Ltd. introduced the company’s improvement and internationalization process. Having founded for 18 years, its global sales in 2015 is 400 times that of the start, which is a model for Chinese suppliers.

We have excellent reports in the morning where industry experts, buyers and suppliers shared reports centered on "casting exporting” and gave suggestions to exporting enterprises.  We hope that casting exporting enterprises attach more importance on the market, analyze transnational purchasing trends, actively expand the overseas market and become more familiar with international trade rules. Thus, they can occupy a favorable position in the global castings market and get more say in international trade.

The FSC China Foundry Conference was held on April 20 in the afternoon

The China Foundry Conference made a communication about the new material, new technology, new process, new equipment on the foundry industry. It includes:

3 lectures of “new technology, new process”

The organizer invited the senior engineer Mr. Huang Yimin of Shanghai Yuanda Cleaning Equipment Co., Ltd. to do a lecture about Anti discoloration of aluminum casting and anti mildew, the manager Mr. Li Jinliang of Xuzhou Feiyun Foam Manufacturing Co., Ltd. did a lecture about how to control lost foam casting; the manager Mr. Zhang Guanghe of Guangyi Mining Products Group Co. Ltd. did a lecture about The relationship between the casting inclusion and the casting material. Three experts introduced the “new technology, new process” of foundry industry, hoping to provide technical support for casting export enterprises.

7 lectures of “new material, new equipment”

Shengquan Group, FOSECO Cast Material (China) Co., Ltd., Elkem International Trade (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Henan Tongbaishan Kyanite Mining Industry Co., Ltd., Tianjin Huifeng Thermo Sensor Equipment Co., Ltd., Beijing Aoyuksin Surface Engineering Technology Co., Ltd., and Shimadzu International Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., 7 enterprises did the product’s introduction of “new material, new equipment”, hoping to provide material and equipment support for casting export enterprises.

1 lecture to promote the foundry“four-new”communication

Mr. Qu Xueliang, the deputy editor of Foundry Journal, took the example of Foundry Journal, CHINA FOUNDRY, did the lecture about Role of Scientific and Technical Journals in Foundry Technological Development and Innovation.

The organizing committee responsible person said: FSC will be based on the requirements of casting export enterprises of new materials, new technology, new process, new equipment (four-new), to build a global casting "four new" communication platform, introducing the international "four new" into China. Casting export enterprises in China through the application of casting new materials, learning cast new technology, casting new technology and new equipment to enhance the company's level of casting, improve the management, to shorten the development cycle of a new project, production yield improvement and maintain the quality consistency, and improve casting quality, reduce the production cost in order to achieve the transformation and upgrading of the company, to raise the added value of the product and increase profits.

19^th Global Foundry Sourcing Conference was held on April 21

There are over 90 international purchasing companies in the conference. Delegates from Eaton Corporation, ZF Drivetech (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd., Compass Technical Services, Inc., Ferrotech Menard, Inc., and Paragon Metals Inc. made speeches to introduce their procurement programs. FSC has invited more than 340 foundries from home and abroad to meet the purchasers. Suppliers from Dongfeng Automobile Co., Ltd. Foundry Branch and Toyo KM JS Co., Ltd. made speeches of introducing their main products and company power.

The negotiation time in the afternoon was purchaser-focused. Each buyer was offered a negotiation table to face-to-face talk to suppliers. FSC organized appointed negotiation zone and free negotiation zone, which also be separated into ferrous metal zone and non-ferrous metal zone. FSC started business-match service three months before conference, which helped save time for both suppliers and buyers during conference.

FSC expresses that they will build a communication platform--foundry sourcing conference as well as build a casting experts team, which includes casting technology experts, casting production experts, casting procurement experts, supply chain management experts, quality inspection experts, and logistics experts. FSC will offer casting suppliers and purchasers more and more detailed and professional service, and contribute for China’s casting upgrading and sustainable development.

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Suppliers China Co., Ltd.

2016.04.27

2016第十八届FSC采购洽谈会、中国铸件出口会议暨铸造“四新”交流会在上海成功召开

由青岛赛系咨询有限公司主办、全国铸造标准化技术委员会协办的2016第十八届FSC跨国铸件采购大会、中国铸件出口会议暨铸造“四新”交流会于4.20至21日在 上海光大国际大酒店成功举办，本次活动旨在为铸造行业搭建集采购洽谈、市场分析、技术研讨于一体的交流平台。大会共吸引了国内外600多名代表参会。活动信息如下：

I.        4.20 上午召开了2016中 国铸件出口会议
众所周知，中国是全球最大的铸件生产国和消费国，然而铸件出口比例仅占百分之十左右，且集中在中低端产品。近几年以来，受全球经济不景气大环境的影响，跨国集团零 部件需求整体疲软，纷纷执行了成本压缩计划，部分买家将低附加值铸件采购订单从中国转移到东南亚等廉价劳动力国家。中国铸件生产企业遭遇下游买家需求不足的同时，还面临着 资金、用工和环保的压力，中国铸造行业的低成本优势正在逐步消失，如果不尽快提高劳动生产率、提高铸件质量、降低生产成本、转变竞争策略，残酷的市场将无情的淘汰一大批没 有竞争力的企业。

如何才能在新的经济形势下生存下来，铸件生产企业在希望与跨国买家进行采购项目对接洽谈的同时，也能了解到国际最新的采购趋势、跨国集团采购流程、供应商审核标准等。铸件 生产企业还希望向先进企业学习经验，以提升企业的综合实力，尽可能承接更多优质订单，扩大出口份额、提高产品附加值。

FSC针对中国铸件出口企业的需求，在举办FSC跨国铸件采购大会的同时，精心筹备了本次活动，邀请行业资深专家、跨国采购商、铸件生产企业围绕“铸件出口”为中心作报告 ，报告主题有：

1.   资深专家--中国农机研究院原副院长张伯明先生就“铸件出口中遇到的问题及对策”做报告，分析了国内铸件行业出口形势及背后的原因、 出口中遇到的常见问题，还就三家欧洲采购商在中国开发供应商的失败原因做了具体分析，并对国内企业提出了改进建议。张院长贴近实际、深入浅出的报告受到与会代表的一致好评 ；

2.   资深专家--全国铸造标准化技术委员会张寅副秘书长就铸造行业国家标准、铸造国际标准、国内外标准差异做了专场报告，希望通过提高标 准化服务水平为铸件出口企业提供技术标准保障，同时倡议有能力的企业积极参与铸造行业国家标准的修制定工作，以提升企业的软实力；

3.   海外买家--加拿大Ferrotech Menard, Inc的CEO--Mr. Yves Menard在中国采购铸件近20年 ，有着丰富的采购经验。本次专程来华通过实际采购案例解析以北美买家角度从北美买家从中国采购零部件的趋势变化、中国铸造企业的优劣势分析，面临的机遇与挑战等，并对中国 铸件企业的发展提出意见和建议。

4.   跨国集团中国区采购中心--苏尔寿采购经理苏大勇先生就“跨国集团供应商开发流程详解”做出报告。有着7年的铸造生产经验，14年的 铸件供应商开发、供应链管理等经验的苏经理详细介绍了跨国集团供应商开发的六种渠道、评估供应商的七大标准、采购团队的人员组成部分、职能分工及供应商审核、供应商维护等 流程。希望国内铸件企业了解跨国集团采购流程，以后与采购商打交道时少走弯路。

5.   国内大型采购商—宇通客车张明哲采购经理以采购商的角度从质量、成本、交付、技术、服务五个角度作深入分析，做了“关于铸件的QCDTS”的 报告，并给供应商提出意见及建议。

6.   拉丁美洲Latin America Markets, LLC的Ms. Emma Kombrink就“拉丁美洲铸件出口形势分析 及市场开发建议”做了专场报告，希望助力国内企业开发拉美市场。

7.   德国Vinck Agency for Consulting and Trading(VACT)的Mr. Birger Vinck从 市场、采购、技术的角度对铸造成功采购与铸造工业未来新趋势做分享，还就国内铸造企业关心的德国铸造工业趋势和发展、中德铸造厂之间的差异、中国铸造企业国际化和对外投资 做了介绍。

8.   优秀的铸件出口企业—鹰普（中国）有限公司王锐经理介绍了鹰普公司成立18年，2015年全球销售额是成立初期的400倍的成长轨迹 、国际化进程等，是国内供应商学习借鉴的模范。

上午的场报告都非常精彩，行业专家、采购商、供应商等嘉宾以“铸件出口”为中心从不同角度做了分析，为出口企业出谋划策。希望铸件出口企业要在市场上多做文章，分析 跨国集团采购趋势、积极拓展海外市场、熟练运用国际贸易规则，争取在全球铸件市场格局中占据有利的地位，并在国际贸易中取得更多的话语权。