Market demand and application prospect analysis of aluminum alloy forgings

From the above analysis, aluminum and aluminum alloy forgings are mainly used in industrial sectors that require a high degree of light weight. According to the current application conditions in various countries, the main market distribution is as follows.

• ① Aviation forgings: Forgings on aircraft account for about 70% of the weight of aircraft materials, such as landing gear, frame, engine parts, moving rings and stationary rings, etc. There are thousands of forgings used in an aircraft, except for a few Most of the high-temperature components have been aluminized except for high-temperature alloys and titanium alloy forgings. For example, the Boeing Company of the United States produces thousands of planes annually and consumes tens of thousands of tons of aluminum alloy forgings. Especially for the launch of large-scale aircraft projects and the implementation of major key projects such as aircraft carriers, the consumption of aluminum forgings will also increase year by year.

• ② Aerospace forgings: The forgings on spacecraft are mainly forging rings, rims, spars and machine seats, etc., most of which are aluminum forgings, and only a few titanium forgings. The development of spaceships, rockets, missiles, satellites, etc. has an increasing demand for aluminum forgings.

• ③ Military industry: For conventional weapons such as tanks, armored vehicles, personnel carriers, chariots, rockets, gun mounts, and warships, the number of aluminum alloy forgings used as load-bearing parts has greatly increased, basically replacing steel forgings.

  

• ④ Automobile is the largest industry using aluminum alloy forgings. It is mainly used as hubs (especially heavy-duty vehicles and large and medium-sized buses), bumpers, base girders and other small aluminum forgings, among which aluminum wheels are the most used aluminum forgings, mainly used in buses, trucks and heavy-duty vehicles. In recent years, it has also begun to be used in small and medium-sized cars, motorcycles and limousines. According to statistics, the annual growth rate of the amount of aluminum wheels has reached more than 20% in the past few years in the world, and the current amount of use has reached billions.

• ⑤ In the energy and power industry, aluminum forgings will gradually replace some steel forgings to make racks, retaining rings, moving rings and stationary rings, as well as coal transportation wheels, liquefied natural gas flanges, nuclear power plant fuel racks, etc., which are generally large and medium-sized forgings.

• ⑥ Aluminum forgings are used on ships and warships as racks, moving and moving rings, turret mounts, etc.

• ⑦ In the machinery manufacturing industry, it is currently mainly used to make racks, sliders, connecting rods and twisting reels in woodworking machinery and textile machinery.

• ⑧ In the mold industry, aluminum alloy forgings are used to make rubber molds, shoe molds and other light industrial molds.

• ⑨ In the transportation machinery and locomotive industries, aluminum alloy forgings are widely used as cylinders, piston skirts, etc.

• ⑩ Other aspects, such as electronic communications, household appliances, cultural and sports equipment, etc., have also begun to use aluminum forgings to replace forgings of steel, copper and other materials.