Future development trends and challenges of steel forgings

The future development trends and challenges of steel forgings can be viewed from a number of aspects. First of all, with the rapid development of China’s large forging industry, the market size has gradually expanded, and the transformation and upgrading of the industry has become an inevitable trend. Intelligent manufacturing has become an inevitable trend for the transformation and upgrading of the forging industry and the adjustment of industrial structure, and automation, digitalization, information technology and grid manufacturing are the main paths for the transformation and upgrading of the forging industry. Therefore, the production of steel forgings in the future will pay more attention to the development of improving production efficiency, reducing costs, improving product quality and reducing environmental pollution.

Secondly, with the development of emerging industries such as new energy and new materials, the application field of steel forgings will continue to expand. For example, in the field of new energy vehicles, high-performance steel forgings are used to manufacture key components such as battery casings, drive motors and transmissions. In the aerospace sector, steel forgings are used to make important components such as aircraft landing gear, engine turbine discs and blades. Therefore, the production enterprises of steel forgings need to continuously strengthen technology research and development and innovation to meet the changing market demand.

However, the future development of steel forgings also faces some challenges. First of all, problems such as energy shortages and rising raw material prices still exist, which will directly affect the production cost and market competitiveness of steel forgings. Secondly, with the improvement of environmental awareness and the strengthening of environmental protection policies, steel forging production enterprises need to adopt more environmentally friendly production methods and technologies to reduce environmental pollution and waste of resources.

In addition, with the strengthening of international trade protectionism and the attention of intellectual property protection, steel forging production enterprises need to strengthen independent innovation and technology research and development, improve their core competitiveness, and actively respond to intellectual property disputes and other challenges.

In short, the future development trends and challenges of steel forgings are multifaceted. Production enterprises need to strengthen technology research and development and innovation, improve their core competitiveness, and actively respond to market changes and challenges. At the same time, the government and all sectors of society also need to strengthen support and guidance to promote the healthy and sustainable development of the steel forging industry.