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Special steel supplies structure steel and forming steel and forming process steel materials for parts in machinery manufacturing industry. Among them, the forming process of manufacturing parts is cutting forming and mold forming. The various types tools required for these two forming processes like milling, cone, drills, saws, measuring tools, molds are all made by high speed steel and mold steels.
1. China Mold Steel Present Situation
In recent years, China’s mold steel production technology has made great progress and the product structure has been further optimized. The process equipment renewal, the manufactures have refining equipment, fast forging, precision forging, special rolling mills, heat treatment and processing center.
Capacity Production Situation
Big Mold Steel Enterprise Output in Jan. To Jun., 2017
Market Consumption
Domestic Mold Steel Supply and Demand Cities
2. Foreign Mold Steel Development Dynamic
As an important foundation for the development of the mold industry, mold materials are fully valued by all countries in the world. The development of China's mold industry provides a very good mold steel market, and many manufacturers of mold steel abroad are also very optimistic about the Chinese market. In addition to the well-known ASSABGroup (Swedish One Victory Group), Japan Datong Industry Co., Ltd. and Hitachi Metals Co., Ltd., France's ERASTEEL (Ehman), Germany (SCHMOLZ-BICKENBACH) Companies such as Schmiedewerke Gröditz GmbH (Greitz Steel) and Japan's High Frequency Steel Co., Ltd. are increasing their investment in the Chinese market.
3. Downstream Industry Situation
More than 90% of the parts in the automotive industry are molded from molds, using hot work, cold work and plastic mold steel. 80% of the parts in the home appliance industry are molded by mould. The largest use is plastic mold steel (representing steel grades P20 and 718), using a small amount of hot work die steel and cold work die steel; PVC pipe and aluminum profiles used in the construction and decoration industry. Building ceramics, floor tiles, wall tiles, etc. Almost 100% is molded by a mold, and a large amount of cold work die steel is used. More than 75% of the parts in the electromechanical industry are formed by die steel, and a large number of hot work and cold work die steels are used.
4. Outlook
It is reported that China's annual import of fine mold steel, almost occupy the high-end market of the entire domestic mold steel, and the price of imported mold steel is several times to ten times higher than the domestic similar products. Along with the improvement of China's mold manufacturing technology, the demand for high-quality and high-quality die steel is gradually increasing. The production and development capabilities of domestic high-performance mold steels are insufficient. The domestic alloy mold steels are international with Sweden, Germany, the United States, Japan, France, etc. Compared with the advanced level, there is still a certain gap, and it is difficult to meet market demand in terms of variety, quality, size specifications and performance.
