Growing demand for carbide cutting tools from domestic manufacturing

The current annual sales of China's machine tools and tools are about 14.5 billion yuan, of which the proportion of cemented carbide tools is less than 25%, but the carbide cutting tools required by the domestic manufacturing industry already account for more than 50% of the tool, this kind of blind production The ever-increasing demand for cemented carbide tools from the domestic manufacturing industry has not been met. This has created a vacuum in the mid-to-high end market, and it has finally been occupied by foreign companies.

According to the analysis, the approximate cost of processing a workpiece constitutes: machine tool cost 30%, fixed overhead cost 25%, operator 20%, raw material 20%, and tool 5%. Customers choose tools, in addition to whether it can complete the processing quality, but also pay more attention to how to reduce the cost of the workpiece and achieve higher product profits. However, from the perspective of cost savings, the tool's cost is only about 5%, which is relatively low. Therefore, the tool company's service awareness must shift from the tool itself to the entire value chain of the workpiece to significantly reduce the customer's production costs. The focus is on the entire production process of the workpiece, including equipment operation time, minimum scrap rate, yield increase, and efficient personnel utilization. According to this idea, the tool company should build a brand value-added solution for all its customers, starting from procurement and planning, across the entire production process itself, until the disposal of tools and recycling. The program has four standardized service modules, including planning, production and logistics, maintenance, training and expertise. Only about 5% of the tool cost can be reduced by 20% to 50% of the production cost by continuously improving the whole process service program, which fully reflects the value of the brand.

China has begun to focus on efficient and high-quality tooling market. In recent years, the development of many high-end manufacturing technologies in China has brought new requirements to the tool. For example, automotive tools must have high efficiency, high stability, and specialization. With the continuous development of the automotive industry, new requirements have emerged. From a technical point of view, there are mainly heavy-duty, composite, and specializations. The trend of standardization, high speed, and variety of varieties. In the field of aerospace manufacturing, with the wide application of difficult-to-machine materials such as titanium alloys and high-temperature alloys, how to properly select and use cutting tools for efficient and high-quality cutting has become a very important topic in the industry.

Closer to the water, the Chinese-made knives were supposed to have the advantages of time, location, and humanity in providing tool services for the aforementioned manufacturing fields. In fact, the imported tools basically occupy the high-end users of the machining industry, especially in the automobile engine manufacturing workshop, the aircraft engine manufacturing enterprise machining workshop or the steam turbine manufacturing workshop, and are almost imported tools in the efficient and high-precision machining tools. Monopoly, it is difficult to see the traces of domestic tools. The domestic tools are mostly used in medium and low-demand customer groups, such as agricultural machinery, motorcycles, agricultural vehicles, general machinery, and middle and low-end machinery manufacturing industries.

Not only that, the extensive development of the manufacturing industry has led to an unbalanced development of machine tools and tools. According to reports, the consumption ratio of CNC machine tools and cutting tools in developed countries is currently 2:1, while the domestic ratio is too low, and the total amount of tool consumption is still not enough. 1/5 of total machine tool consumption. Many manufacturing companies spend a lot of money to purchase machine tools, but they are shrinking in tool consumption, and they are reluctant to purchase advanced and efficient tools. The market demand for traditional tools has been high for a long time. This is also an important reason why many domestic tool companies do not want to enter advanced and efficient tool production.

With the rapid development of the Chinese economy in the past 30 years, the manufacturing industry will surely become stronger. The market will be as broad as the market in Europe and the United States. Therefore, Chinese companies should start from the long-term interests and work in an orderly manner. Breakthrough, bigger and stronger as soon as possible, and ultimately "the first water in the first floor."