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THE RESULTS OF THE SCOTTISH ENGINEERING SURVEY

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THE RESULTS OF THE SCOTTISH ENGINEERING SURVEY

Scotland’s engineering sector has suffered tremendously recently. They have not only seen a deep decline in output volumes and incoming export business but, the sector has also seen a huge fall in new orders. This has been put down to both the strong english pound and the current worries in the oil and gas industry. But, unfortunately that is not the only thing that the Scottish engineering sector has to worry about. A new survey was released by Scottish Engineering recently which also showed that the oil and gas industries workforce was taking a hit.
The survey which is released every three months showed that the low price of oil is starting to have an impact on those that work in the oil and gas industries. This includes those companies that produce equipment and components in the oil and gas sector too. Initially the oil crisis was just affecting oil companies directly, now it seems to be spreading to those that work alongside the oil companies too.

The Chief Executive of Scottish Engineering Bryan Buchan said: “This is a significant issue for many of our member companies, who are not directly involved in extraction on the UKCS (UK Continental Shelf), but who over the years have developed expertise in manufacture of components and equipment for the major players who are now radically curtailing their activities.”
He continued by sharing his opinion that the price of oil will stay low for a while. This opinion is currently widely expressed by a number of senior executives in the oil and gas industry.

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Bryan Buchan also commented about the impact the strong english pound is having on companies within the Scottish engineering industry. The strength of the sterling pound means engineering organisations in the United Kingdom are less competitive than organisations overseas.
The survey by Scottish Engineering also showed that the industry was also experiencing a slump when it comes to orders from both the UK and incoming export business.

In fact, only twenty three per cent of engineering organisations based in Scotland experienced an increase in orders over the last three month period. A whopping forty four per cent experienced a fall in orders and the remaining stayed the same.
The organisation behind the surveys are expecting another fall in orders over the next survey in three months. But, they do expect the pace of the decline to slow slightly.

The report showed that only twenty six per cent of engineering companies based in Scotland increased their staffing levels. Unfortunately twenty seven per cent reduced their employee levels and the rest kept the same number of staff.
Worryingly for engineers in the oil and gas industry, this is actually the third time in a row in which the survey has noted a fall in employee numbers. But, it is not all doom and gloom, these declines have been modest.

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Plastic Molding and Industry Changes

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Plastic Molding and Industry Changes

Plastic Molding are very important components of the industry and are closely associated to daily life. They are structures such as pipes, bottles and vessels capable of holding internal pressure, cars, hous cooking, everything the world that can not leave without plastic parts. Every industry small, medium, large or very large needs plastic molds and custom injection molding parts. Boilers are used for producing power. There are heat exchangers used in many industrial applications. Take the name of any industrial sector there oil tanks, pipelines, compressors for supplying compressed air for cleaning, pnuematic systems for instrumentation, pneumatic conveying sytems for transportion of solid, liquid and gaseous materials in the industry. Oil and gas industry, aerospace industry, marine industry, refrigeration and air conditioning systems use pressure vessels.

Safety issues with plastic injection molding

                injection moldings are associated with lots of safety risks. Any explosion of pressure vessel can be very dangerous to the workers and plant and machinery. There have been serious accidents in power houses, cement plants, steel plants, chemical plants and aerospace industry resulting lots of losses of human lives and to the industrial assets. Airplane cabins is a familiar examples of the pressure-containing structures. The atmosphere inside the cabin relative to the thin air outside is a serious threat to the airplane if cracks are developed. Number of fatal tragedies have occurred from this problem. The famous tragedy is of disintegration of Comet aircraft in flight in the 1950s is still fresh in memory. The loss of a 5-meter section of a roof of the first-class section of an Aloha Airlines B737 in April 1982 is another important case showing the gravity of the dangers associated with the pressure vessels.

Pressure vessel suppliers are very concerned to determine the stresses and deformations in structures such as these as it will be the crucial measure for the safety of structures as the first step in designing against failure.

Need for industry standards, code and enforcing agencies

                The gravity casting of the consequences of damages to human life and property and the inconvenience they cause to the society is well understood by the manufacturers of plastic parts and metal parts. They are keen to adopt foolproof design of systems and components, selecting the right materials of construction and latest technologies in manufacturing the safe pressure vessels. Strictly following the industry standards and codes involving competent inspections in obtaining the right materials, inspection during the manufacturing and final inspection after the product is ready for use are of utmost importance for the manufacturers of plastic molding parts and metal parts. The safety of plastic injection molding is not the concern of only the manufacturers of the plastic molds but is for every one involved in the process like suppliers of the materials, equipment, instruments, testing agencies and enforcement bodies.

DEMAND FROM CHINA FOR PLASTIC MOLD FOR TRANSPORT SECTOR

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DEMAND FROM CHINA FOR PLASTIC MOLD FOR TRANSPORT SECTOR

With the rising population and growing economies the transport sector is faced with number of challenges like increasing number of vehicles on the roads plastic molds and plastic injection molding parts for car, home appliance, house cook, high fuel consumption, need for alternative fuels for use in the transport vehicles and more important the adverse impact on the environment. Almost all the major cities in all the countries face the challenge to meet the growing need for transport vehicles, plastic inejction molds in the cities. The number of vehicles on the roads is increasing every year resulting in traffic jams, rising air pollution more accidents. Some of the major cities of the world like Delhi in India, San Ramon in California in USA, the city of the most famous project ‘The Silicon Valley Project’ and London in UK are experiencing the rising number of vehicles on the roads. all of those are need electric parts metal parts, die casting parts, injection molds, the most of those products are purchased from China companies, like metal part china companies, custom injection molding china companies, electric china companies.

Government in some of the countries are forced to take immediate remedial steps to replace the petrol and diesel run vehicles by vehicles run on CNG fuel. The problem is becoming more serious in major cosmopolitan cities due to continuous inflow of people from other cities for various reasons like increased job opportunities, opportunities for business and trade and abundant educational facilities. This has made it essential to disperse the offices and commercial centers, hospitals and other day to day facilities to different locations throughout the cities thus increasing distances to travel. Due to rising cost of living in the metropolitan cities, a large number workforce lives in satellite cities and travels every day to the metropolitan cities for work adding to the number of transport vehicles on the road.

According to a report by Hexagon Composites, there is rising demand for the natural gas-powered buses and commercial trucks across developed economies around the world due to low prices for CNG gas. The cost of natural-gas fuels in North America is about 40 percent lower than diesel, per diesel gallon equivalent. Composites Forecasts and Consulting (Mesa, AZ, US) brought out in its study in 2013 that high-pressure gas storage vessels is going to be one of the fastest-growing markets for construction of types of pressure vessels representing global sales of more than US$2 billion. Bulk transportation of compressed natural gas (CNG) products, and fuel storage in passenger cars, buses and trucks with powertrains dependent on CNG and hydrogen alternatives to gasoline and diesel are going to be the main market potentials for the composite-reinforced pressure vessels.

Composites Forecasts and Consulting reported the number of natural gas-powered vehicles (NGVS) in the world at around 10 million five years back. These NGVs included cars, trucks, buses, and fork-lift vehicles. This number became more than 20 million by the year 2013 and is expected to be more than more than 65 million by the year 2023. Major junk of these NGVs (94 percent) are likely to be fitted with high-pressure fuel storage systems.

Thereason why that so many vehicles on the world, becasue people is becaome more and more, and today the car is not high,since  most of compoents can buy from China companies with very low price, for examples, 80% of vehicles sub contract companies are by plastic molds or custom injection molding parts from China mold and molding company, the cost is around 1/5 high than buying in Europe and America, but quality is very high, this is same to die casting parts as well, so all of car manufacring cost is taking done,and more and more people can buy.

There is great opportunity for the manufacturers of high pressure die casting parts to meet the growing market demand. Along with the large opportunities in the future market for the high pressure die casting, the high pressure die casting manufacturers have lots of challenge to remain competitive in the market. Adoption of latest materials, latest technologies and manufacturing processes are going to be crucial for remaining competitive. It is the quality, cost and availability of the high pressure die castings which will decide a place for the high pressure die casting manufacturers in the competitive market.