Modern and efficient cutting tools will gradually become the mainstream of the market

The number of high-speed, high-efficiency CNC machine tools and machining centers in the domestic manufacturing industry is rapidly increasing, and a large number of highly efficient cutting tools are already required. Modern efficient cutting tools will gradually become the mainstream of the market. At present, the imbalance of the tool structure in China is not the right way to produce the tool and the demand. In the case of out of control of the tool market structure, the production of highly efficient and advanced tool products is the absolute principle, which can make a big change in the tool market.

China's current annual sales of tools is 14.5 billion yuan, of which the proportion of cemented carbide tools is less than 25, which is not only far from the structure of international market tool products, but also can not meet the growing demand for carbide tools in the domestic manufacturing industry. Among the cutting tools for domestic manufacturing, the proportion of cemented carbide tools has reached more than 50. The problem of disconnection between supply and demand structure has been very serious. The consequence is that a large number of high-speed steel tools that are surplus are exported at a low price or sold domestically. At the same time, high-performance hard alloy cutting tools are Relying on large amounts of imports, imports have increased from 0.9 billion U.S. dollars in 2001 to 450 million U.S. dollars in 2005 (about 3.6 billion U.S. dollars).

The imbalance of the tool structure means that the tools and demands produced are not correct. For example, the user needs a large gap in the carbide tool, but the high-speed steel tool is over-manufactured; the high-efficiency cutting tools urgently needed in the modern manufacturing industry have large gaps, but the low-grade standard tools are over-produced.

In developed countries, cemented carbide tools currently occupy the dominant position of tooling, with a proportion of 70. High-speed steel tools are being reduced by 1 to 2 per year, and the current proportion has fallen below 30. The proportion of super hard tools such as diamond and cubic boron nitride is about 3.

China currently produces about 80,000 tons of high-speed steel annually, which accounts for about 40 percent of the world's total production, and consumes a large amount of valuable rare resources such as tungsten and molybdenum. This kind of blind expansion and low-level repetition has resulted in a large surplus of high-speed steel cutters and has to be sold at low prices, which has resulted in a large number of tool-manufacturing companies having low efficiency.

China currently has an annual output of 16,000 tons of cemented carbide, which also accounts for about 40 of the world's total production. However, the highest value-added cutting insert production of hard alloy products is only 3,000 tons, accounting for only 20. This situation, on the one hand caused by the lack of domestic supply of hard alloy tools, on the other hand also makes the precious hard Alloy resources have not been fully utilized.

In terms of economic efficiency, China's annual sales revenue of cemented carbide is about 560 million U.S. dollars; Japan is only 40 percent of China's output, but sales revenue is as high as 2.633 billion U.S. dollars, of which blades (tools) have a high proportion of 72, making full use of resources. The company also gained good results. China's tool industry should get some useful inspiration from it.