From October 5 to 10, 2025, the International Forging Congress (IFC2025) was grandly held in Frankfurt, Germany. As a representative enterprise in China's forging equipment sector, Newwish was invited to participate in the exhibition and deliver two technical reports.
The International Forging Congress is the world's most influential grand event in the forging industry. With the theme of "Forging a Sustainable Future", this year's congress brought together experts, scholars and leading enterprises from more than 30 countries around the world to jointly discuss the cutting-edge trends of digitalization, intelligence and sustainable development in the forging industry.
Global Consensus: The Forging Industry is in a Period of Transformation
Against the backdrop of global industrial restructuring and energy transition, traditional forging is shifting from experience-driven to data-driven, and from manual control to intelligent control. How to reduce carbon emissions and improve efficiency has become a common issue for the global industry.
Energy and Carbon Emission Pressure: The unit energy consumption of forging enterprises in Europe has increased by nearly 50% compared with that in 2018. The "dual pressure" of carbon emissions and energy costs has made green manufacturing a rigid demand.
Prominent Labor Shortage: The high-temperature, high-noise and high-intensity working environment has deterred young people, resulting in a shortage of skilled workers of more than 35%
Restructuring of the Global Pattern: The forging production capacity shows a trend of "decline in the West and rise in the East". Europe is shifting towards high value-added and automated development, while China and India continue to see growth in production capacity.
Technical Focus: Digital and AI-Driven Intelligent Forging
In multiple reports at the congress, digitalization, AI and servo technology were high-frequency keywords. The integration of these technologies is reshaping the global forging production methods and efficiency.
Digital Twin: It has developed from a static process model to a dynamic prediction system, which can real-time simulate metal flow and temperature field changes, shortening the process verification cycle from several weeks to several hours.
AI Adaptive Control: Reinforcement learning algorithms are gradually applied to servo equipment, realizing intelligent control that "enables equipment to understand processes"; parameter self-optimization makes the forming process more accurate and efficient
Flexible Automation and Machine Vision: The combination of 3D visual positioning and high-temperature protective robots enables unordered grasping, automatic feeding and efficient handling of complex parts.
Sustainable Drive: Achieving Green Transformation through Intelligent Manufacturing
Green manufacturing has become a global consensus. A number of European institutions point out that carbon emissions from the forging industry account for about 10% of the total carbon emissions of the manufacturing industry, and energy-saving, efficient and controllable servo equipment and digital systems are practical paths to achieve emission reduction.
Higher Energy Efficiency: By replacing traditional forging equipment with servo drives, precise control and on-demand output of energy are realized, reducing idle energy consumption and ineffective impact.
Lower Material Waste: Through process innovation and optimization, deformation is precisely controlled to achieve forging with minimal allowance, significantly reducing raw material costs and energy consumption in subsequent machining.
More Friendly Environment: The application of servo drives and automated operations greatly reduces the intensity of noise, vibration and thermal radiation, improving the safety of the working environment.
At this congress,Newwish systematically demonstrated its latest achievements in the integration of servo technology, intelligence and digitalization through two themed technical reports. Ranging from high-precision servo direct-drive forming technology to AI-driven process innovation and optimization, as well as the practical application of digital twin and artificial intelligence in production lines, Xinweiqi's R&D direction is highly aligned with global trends.
The application of servo equipment is leading a revolutionary upgrade of forging equipment. It not only improves energy efficiency and precision, but also provides a practical path for intelligent manufacturing and sustainable development through a controllable and traceable production process. The integration of digitalization and artificial intelligence endows equipment with self-learning and prediction capabilities, transforming forging production from experience-dependent to data-driven, and bringing a production system with higher quality, lower energy consumption and greater stability to the industry.
In Frankfurt, we have seen the diversified development directions of the industry: Europe is promoting sustainable manufacturing, India is expanding production capacity, and the United States is strengthening local manufacturing. Moreover, China's forging equipment manufacturing capabilities are attracting increasing attention from international counterparts. Facing a new era full of both challenges and opportunities, we firmly believe that Newwish is participating in the transformation of global manufacturing in the right way and continuously promoting the intelligent and sustainable development of the global forging industry.
