The 15th China (Nan'an) Shuitou International Stone Expo was successfully held in Shuitou International Stone Exhibition Center, Shuitou Town, Nan'an City, the hometown of building materials in China, from November 8 to 11, 2014. According to information, the stone industry of Nan'an has become the first in China and the world's top stone center.
In all kinds of stone exhibitions, most people focus on beautiful and exquisite stone products, but they seldom notice the "skillful hand" of making wedding clothes for stone products - stone machinery and equipment.
In this exhibition, according to the on-site interviews and reports of media reporters, it can be found that China's stone machinery and equipment have entered the "Neolithic" era.
Figure: Neolithic products, unrelated to this article
From mining separatism to block cutting, from special-shaped processing to polishing and grinding, the birth of all fine stones must go through various processes. It can be said that without stone machinery and equipment, there would be no stone decoration boutique that has entered thousands of households.
"If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools." The 2014 Nan'an Shuitou Stone Expo attracted many leading stone equipment enterprises in Fujian and other provinces. They not only represent the overall strength of Fujian stone equipment, but also represent the current best level of Chinese stone equipment.
Many famous stone equipment enterprises even appeared with innovative equipment, adding new weight to China's stone equipment on the international competition stage, and jointly opening the "Neolithic" era of domestic stone equipment.
A standing vice president of Quanzhou Equipment Manufacturing Association said that stone processing has entered the era of finishing, and traditional conventional equipment has been difficult to meet the requirements of polyhedron processing. In this case, a stone equipment enterprise has won the project of "Five Axis Linkage" and launched new equipment with independent intellectual property rights after more than a year of school enterprise research and development. At present, this project has been included in Quanzhou "CNC generation" mechanical product innovation application demonstration project.
According to the introduction of the project leader, the product adopts the independently developed five axis CNC system for stone processing, and the cutter can realize the movement of two rotating axes. The most difficult part of this equipment is to maintain the stability of equipment and processing under the condition of five axis linkage; Second, given a parameter, it is necessary to be able to automatically deform and realize the machining of pentahedral complex surfaces.
"Foreign countries have taken the lead in the five axis linkage technology, but the functions of our equipment can fully meet the demand for imported equipment, followed by more obvious advantages in price." The person in charge of the enterprise said that at present, more than ten sets of the equipment with integrated functions have been sold, greatly improving the efficiency of users and product quality.
One enterprise has 3 national invention patents and 2 utility model patents among the 4 machines exhibited. The enterprise was responsible for introducing that the 4-axis infrared automatic edge cutting machine in the exhibition equipment was also the only one in the exhibition, with the functions of edge cutting, plate bottom cutting and profiling. "One machine has three uses, and the price is very advantageous. This equipment has not been mass produced yet. A few days ago, customers from Suizhou visited the factory and ordered three directly. Yesterday, another customer came to see it, and was very satisfied." The insiders believe that the stone processing equipment with integrated functions, numerical control, energy conservation and environmental protection has become a trend. Those who fall behind will be eliminated.
After visiting the exhibition site, it can be found that many stone machinery and equipment enterprises gradually pay attention to the application of new materials and new processes, and promote the upgrading of products as a whole.
Taking the common fully automatic granite mill as an example, different enterprises have made great efforts in the application of materials and processes in different parts. The first is the grinding head. Some enterprises have replaced the aluminum alloy big grinding head and the previous spring and rubber small grinding head, making customers more selective. The second is the steel plate of the host crossbeam. Some enterprises have used Q series steel plates to replace the original ordinary steel plates. While reducing product weight and saving energy consumption, the fuselage is more beautiful and durable.
Why should we constantly update new materials and processes? A person in charge of an enterprise said that the functional requirements for stone processing are getting higher and higher, and the application of materials is the first step. Many of these machines work 24 hours without interruption, so raw materials should be selected with great care, durable, energy-saving, environmentally friendly and efficient, and in line with green production.
In addition, it was also found at the exhibition site that in order to quickly put the newly developed products into the market, an enterprise set up a rare experimental workshop in the industry to comprehensively test the product experimental data.
Warm tip: This article is based on media reports, with slight additions and deletions. Longmeida Stone Group, a stone engineering expert of the hotel and the first brand of Seiko Stone, shares with you, pays close attention to the upstream and downstream trends of the stone industry, creates appreciation grade stone works, and inherits precious stones for the world. In 2015, Longmeida Stone Group continued to demonstrate the noble value of natural stone, leading the healthy development of industry brands.
