China Cemented Carbide Industry Status

  The financial crisis, all walks of life cope withgreat potential.
economic entities have been actively looking for goodAnother set of data, China for the production of
policy, and formed a consensus: should the crisis as anhigh-speed steel cutting tools and carbide two kinds of
industry in transition, enterprise product technologyraw material consumption, accounting for about 40%
upgrade opportunity, relying on scientific andof the world's total consumption, but the cutting tool
technological innovation and adoption of advancedsales in China but only 15% of the global total. At the
manufacturing technology to overcome the financialsame time, China's production of cemented carbide
crisis. However, to achieve the manufacturingcutting tool with Japanese produced in equal quantities,
technology innovation and processing technology tobut the product's value does Japan third. This is
upgrade the machine tool industry in particular, play aanother way reflects the extent of China's Tool
decisive role in the rapid development of even more.Industry as well as the development of extensive
Today, the cutting tool industry has been for thewaste of resources is serious.
manufacturing industry with more and more advancedAt present, the developed countries, carbide tools for
technical support, such as automotive engine parts andhigh-performance tool sales accounted for more than
processing of several typical tools, aircraft landing gear70% of total sales. In China, the proportion of
and other aerospace components and cutting tools,Chinese-made knives carbide cutting tools and
but also processing of molds with a knife, and evenefficient, the domestic part of the only 40%. If the total
including my new Wind electric industry, high-speedis lower within the export, only 28%. Tools for product
train industry and other key parts and processing tools.structure of China's serious unreasonable situation is
According to statistics, the global manufacturing cuttingevident. In 2007, China's production of high-speed steel
tools according to the movements of plate distribution,cutting tools 4 billion, tools, manufacturing power output
accounting for 35% of general machinery, automobilesof 50 times in Japan, is the global community as a tool
accounted for 34%, the aviation industry accounted forfor astronomical figures. However, accounting for 80%
12%, accounting for 5% of medical equipment, mold,of the total product as a household tool kit (low-end
4%, others 10%.products) exports, while export prices of these
In 2008, China's machine tool consumption reached aproducts is lower than the international prices of raw
record level of 19.44 billion U.S. dollars, has the world'smaterials, these exporting enterprises rely entirely on
highest for seven consecutive years. China's spendinglive national export tax rebates.
for the first time exceeded tool of major developedIt is not difficult to see that tool industry is facing this
countries to 40 billion U.S. dollars. But, relative to thecountry in an awkward situation: the door there is a
size of China's huge consumption of machine tools, thetool for the world's largest market for the entire
tool is still extremely low level of consumption,industry provides ample space. And because its late
accounting for only 20% of machine tool consumption.start, develop slowly, unable to provide a modern and
This proportion is far lower than developed countries,efficient tools to meet market demand, had watched
but also below the world average level (machine tooltheir own to win in front of cake by others. Therefore,
consumption and the consumption rate of the globalthe current tool industry put the country only one way
average is about 25%). This shows that our toolout on the development of modern and efficient tool to
consumption, low-cost and inefficient traditional knife stillachieve structural adjustment of industrial upgrading,
the mainstream, far from being fully functional machine,and get rid of low-level redundant development.
raise labor productivity in the manufacturing sector has