How to keep foundries growing?

CH LEADING helps foundries break through traditional production boundaries and achieve sustainable growth through "technology empowerment + full-cycle service " double-wheel drive. Below are the specific strategies and value paths:

1. Technology empowerment: reshaping the core competitiveness of foundries

    Mouldless Intelligent Manufacturing,eliminate mould costs (save 30%~70%), respond quickly to small-lot, customized orders (e.g., medical devices, high-end equipment parts), and seize high-margin market segments.

Case: After using CH Leading's equipment in an auto parts factory, the development cycle of a new model cylinder block was shortened from 6 months to 3 weeks, and the mould cost went to zero.

    Complex design realisation

Unlocking the shape-following cooling runners and thin-walled hollow structures (e.g. aerospace impellers) that cannot be realised by traditional processes, helping customers to undertake high value-added orders.

Case in point: a pump and valve company has improved product energy efficiency by 15% and enhanced premium pricing by printing ultra-complex runner sand patterns.

     Agile Production Network

Provide a combination of multiple models (large industrial machine + desktop verification machine) to support the seamless transition from prototype verification to mass production and reduce the cost of trial and error.

2. Full-cycle services: from equipment delivery to ecological co-construction

    Digital Process Library

Open industry databases (e.g. cast aluminium/cast iron parameter packages, topology optimisation cases) to shorten customers' process mapping time.

     Joint Design Optimisation

Send engineers to work with customers to reconstruct product design (e.g., weight reduction, reduce post-processing) to improve casting profitability.

    Sustainable Upgrade

Provide remote diagnosis of equipment and intelligent management system of consumables to ensure continuous cost reduction and efficiency increase in the 10-year technology life cycle.

3. Business model innovation: opening up the second growth curve

    Shared Printing Centre

Assist regional leading foundries to establish 3D printing service centres, radiate demand from small and medium-sized manufacturers (pay-as-you-go), and create off-equipment revenue.

    Cross-border cloud manufacturing

Through Neutral Tripod's global customer network, help foundries to match overseas orders of high complexity (e.g., European rail transit parts).

    Value-added carbon assets

Quantify the carbon reduction benefits of sand 3D printing (200kg CO₂ reduction per tonne of casting) to help customers obtain green orders and policy subsidies.

4. Data-driven: making growth quantifiable

    Intelligent Kanban

Real-time monitoring of equipment OEE (Overall Efficiency), sand utilisation and other data to optimise capacity bottlenecks.

     ROI Measurement Tool

Automatically compare the cost per piece between traditional processes and 3D printing to dynamically assess the profitability of orders.

    Industry benchmarking system

Provide anonymous benchmarking enterprise data (e.g., delivery cycle, number of design iterations) to help customers locate room for improvement.

5. Eco-Synergy: Binding upstream and downstream value

    Material Alliance

Joint sand/bonding agent suppliers to customise low-cost, high-performance solutions (e.g. aerospace-grade sand with a high temperature resistance of 1600°C).

    Customer Co-Creation Programme

Priority for cooperative foundries to match end-user customers (e.g., integrated die-casting sand core demand of new energy vehicle enterprises).

    Talent empowerment

Provide ‘Digital Craftsman’ training and certification system to solve the problem of skill gap in the digital transformation of enterprises.

    Example of growth path

Stage 1: Undertake urgent/difficult orders with 3D printing → Quickly verify the value of the technology.

Stage 2: transform 20% of production capacity into digital production lines → establish differentiated competitiveness.

Stage 3: Output technical standards and service capabilities → Become a regional industry empowerment platform.

Customer testimonials

A die-casting factory in Zhejiang: Within 2 years after introducing CH Leading equipment, the proportion of orders for complex parts increased from 5% to 35%, and gross profit rate increased by 22%.

CH Leading not only provides equipment, but is also committed to becoming the foundry's "growth technology partner “ - through the three engines of technology cost reduction, value-added design, and ecological win-win situation, it promotes the transformation of the traditional foundry into a ”digitally-driven manufacturer and service provider " transformation, to achieve the leap from survival to leadership.