一、生产规模及配套行业

　　据不完全统计，山东2017年铸件年产量达632万吨，其中灰铁件约占比例为50％，球墨铸铁件约占比例为18％，可锻铸件约占3.5%，蠕墨铸铁约占2%，球墨铸铁管约占11％，普通铸钢件约占8%，精密钢件约占2.5%，有色铸件约占5%。山东铸造厂点众多，具备一定生产规模的铸造厂点有1400余家，从业人员约13.5万人左右。

　　配套行业：主要配套于汽车、摩托车、船舶、机床、通用机械、工程机械、农业机械、建筑机械、电力、冶金、化工、市政及其他装备行业，部分产品远销欧美和日韩等东南亚国家。

二、技术装备水平与质量保证

　　熔炼技术：以冲天炉、中频感应电炉熔炼为主，部分企业采用了冲天炉一电炉双联工艺。

　　造型、制芯技术：树脂砂生产工艺已基本取代潮模干型工艺：气冲造型线，高压多触头造型线，挤压型生产线被引进和使用：许多新工艺如负压实型铸造、熔模精密铸造、真空铸造、差压铸造、重力铸造、“V法"、脂硬化水玻璃工艺得到推广应用。

　　模拟技术：计算机模拟凝固软件得到推广应用。

　　质保体系：炉前铁水智能分析仪、直读光谱分析仪，无损探伤仪和三座标测量被广泛应用，大多数企业已通过ISO9000质量体系认证。

三、铸造设备和材料供应

　　山东铸造设备的生产已形成产业集群，主要有造型、制芯、熔化、清理、砂处理等方面的设备。铸造生铁、原砂、造型和制芯材料、清理用钢丸、钢砂、各类耐火材料的供应配套齐全。

四、产业集聚区：

　　省内培育了章丘明水工业园生产重型汽车、风机和有色合金铸件产业集群、龙口和莱州地区出口刹车盘产业集群、平度和东营地区生产精密铸件与设备产业集群、昌邑市围子镇铸造园区、胶州地区制造冲天炉产业集群、邹平地区生产钢丸钢砂产业集群和青州地区供应铸造生铁的产业聚集区。

五、人员培训

　　山东大学和山东建筑工程学院是我省铸造人才的主要培养基地：山东大学已经培养铸造专业本科生2260名，硕士研究生320名，博士研究生61名：山东建筑工程学院已培养大中专毕业生1780名。为加快行业专业人才培养，山东省铸造协会与山东大学联合，自2002年开始举办铸造《专业证书》大专班，已培养毕业生60余名。

1. Productivity of Casting and Associated Enterprise

　　According to inadequate statistics, the production of casting of Shandong Province reaches 632,000 tons in 2017,in which grey iron castings, ductile iron castings, malleable iron castings, vermicular graphite iron castings, ductile iron pipes and tubes, common steel casting, nice steel casting and nonferrous casting take 50%,18%,3.5%,2%,11%8%,2.5%and5%,respectively.Thereare many casting factories in shandong Province, in which more than 1,400 factories are of large ones. There are about 135,000 people engaged in this field.

　　Associated enterprise:

　　The castings are mainly used in cars, motorcycles, ships, machine tools, general machinery as well as machinery for engineering, agriculture, railways and construction. They are also used in power industry, metallurgy industry, chemical industry and municipal projects, etc. Some castings are exported to Occident, Japan, Korea and South-east Asian countries.

2. Technical Equipment and Quality Control

　　Smelting technology: Cupolas and electric furnaces are mainly used. However, some factories use both cupolas and electric furnaces.

　　Molding technology: Green sand molds have been replaced mainly by resin sand molds. Gas pressing molding line, high-pressure and more touches molding line and extrusion molding line have been introduced to many factories .New technologies, such as minus pressure solid mold casting, lose olefin casting lose olefin casting, vacuum casting, difference to many factories. New technologies, such as minus pressure solid mold casting, lose olefin casting, vacuum casting, difference pressure casting, gravity casting “V method” and Self strengthening sodium silicate technology were used widely.

　　Simulation technology: Computer simulation technologies for solidification process have found application in factories.

　　Quality control system: Intelligent analyzer for liquid iron before molding, spectral analyzer, scathe less detector and three-dimensional coordinate measurer are widely used. Most enterprises have passed IS09000 Quality Authentication.

3.Casting Equipment and Material Supply

　　Casting equipment produced in shandong Province includes molding, smelting, cleaning and sand treating equipment. Pig iron materials such as sand molding and core-making materials, steel balls for sand cleaning and all kinds of fire-resistant materials are all available in Shandong.

4.Industrial conglomeration area:

　　There is an industrial park called Zhangqiumingshui which is set up under the support of the province. The park contains many kinds of industrial clusters, the clusters can be listed as follow: The industrial cluster of production heavy automobile, blower and non-ferrous alloy casting; the industrial cluster of exporting brake disks in the area of Laizhou; the industrial cluster of production precise casting and equipments in Pingdu and Dongying area; the industrial cluster of production cupola in Jiaozhou area and casing park area in Changyi city; the industrial cluster of production steel shot in Zouping area and supporting cast iron in Qingzhou area.

5.Training of Enterprise Employees：

　　Shandong University and Shandong University of Architecture are two main training bases for casting engineers in Shandong province. Up to now,2,260 bachelors,320 masters and 61doctors of casting majors have graduated from Shan dong University.1,780 technical graduates graduated from Shandong University of Architecture have joined working force in this area. For training more personnel, the Casting Association and Shandong University have jointly sponsored a college training program for casting specialty since 2002, so far, there have been 60 graduates.