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Concerning Quality of Cast Metal Products Manufactured Overseas
There is currently a growing demand for cast metal products manufactured overseas. In fact, import of cast metal products into Japan has been steadily growing each year and on a commercial basis, the cash value of cast metal product imports has exceeded exports since 1998 with 80% of the total import volume in terms of actual weight coming from China.
One factor contributing to this increase in the cash value of cast metal imports from China can be attributed to the maintenance of the high quality and low cost of Chinese cast metal products. In the cast metal industry, realization of cost reduction is the minimum requirement for survival on global markets and this means that Chinese cast metal is holding its own against these tight market needs.
The cost of human resources forms a significant ratio of the cast metals industry. In this sense, China, where labor costs are low due to the low cost of human resources, enjoys the merit of being able to achieve major reductions in manufacturing costs. In the course of the transfer of technology to facilities newly established by investment from developed countries in China, where factories can be operated at low labor costs, that technology is nurtured and polished by China with the result that product quality is enhanced and it can be concluded that this has led factories in China to the acquisition of top-grade technology from manufacturing plants around the world.
At the present time, a large portion of cast metal products imported from China is used in applications such as industrial machinery, automobile components, forming machinery and basic materials for society and this range is expanding to cover a broad spectrum from large products to small components. Although not so long ago, the general consensus was that although Chinese products were certainly cheap, quality was poor, nowadays it is no exaggeration to say that quality has improved dramatically and that Chinese products have already reached a standard equaling that of products manufactured in Japan. Moreover, the cast metal factories in China today are well equipped and, if a problem were to be pinpointed, it would be how to effectively control the product quality of Chinese manufacturers in the production of new products.
We at Maruya Industry Co., Ltd. conduct scrupulous checks down to the last detail of customer needs relating to the manufacture of cast metal products and select and propose the most suitable manufacturing plant to meet requirements in liaison with our Japanese staff stationed in China. We at Maruya Industry Co., Ltd. guarantee that we will make effective use of our knowledge of manufacturers in China to support the building of a high-quality, low-cost and stable supply line.
