In the industrial world, cutting tool, the proportion of consumption is probably: high speed steel cutting tools account for 35%, 10% of diamond and cubic boron nitride cutting tool, and the welding carbide cutting tools, solid carbide indexable carbide and accounted for the rest.
In the tool industry in China is not the case. It is understood that China's domestic consumption of domestic knives, about 69% is high speed steel cutting tools, carbide cutting tools account for only about 28% (the rest of the system for the tool, diamond and cubic boron nitride cutting tools, etc.). Even with imported knives, the knife in the consumption of about 53% for high speed steel cutting tools, carbide cutting tools for 45%, compared with diamond and cubic boron nitride cutting tools account for more than 2%.
This ratio shows that, although China has become the world's first large-scale machine tool consumers and also is the world's first large-scale tool consumer, but our tooling consumption structure can't even reach the world average. Our present situation is: although our rate of production numerical control machine tool and numerical control machine tool production rate are increased year by year, but average prices downward trend from the machine, you can see our CNC machine may or simple nc in the lead. That means China's metal cutting overall level is not high.
The status quo of the overall processing level is not high and our rising labor costs and RMB's appreciation trend, hides the we risk of losing competitiveness of manufacturing in China, in some countries, including the United States, economists and entrepreneurs are considering moving some have moved to Asia's manufacturing companies back to its home.
To enable us to continue to attract global companies manufacturing landing in China, it needs us to improve the competition ability, which of course include improve the level of manufacturing. Which is also accord with the party central committee about us we need to change the pattern of development during the "twelfth five-year" requirements, namely the number will be given a heavier, low value and high consumption of manufacturing industry, to the heavy level of manufacturing, green environmental protection, high added value.
In tool manufacturing technology, the first is the material of cutting tool technology. And cutting tool materials is expected to be in a new type of material and old material of high performance in both directions have development. As the current extensive use of high speed steel cutting tool cutting tool industry in China, although in the short term this tool material did not die, but the upgrade as necessary.
For example, if we use high performance HSS and powder metallurgy high speed steel containing cobalt (P/MHSS) instead of now used widely in common high speed steel, the manufacture level of our high speed steel cutter can also be a higher level. Developed countries in Europe and the us since the 1970 s, high speed steel cutting tool market share gradually eroded by carbide cutting tools. But with powder metallurgy high speed steel cutting tools, HSS cutting tools of market share and recovered. This is because the powder metallurgy high speed steel cutter compared with common high speed steel cutter, higher hardness, better toughness, wear resistance, so more popular with users. But the large resection in some, such as high impact, processing occasions application field of powder metallurgy high speed steel cutter is smaller than ordinary old type carbide brittle, not easy fracture, thus in turn replaced part of carbide cutting tools. But China's tool industry has long did not make good use of powder metallurgy high speed steel to manufacture cutting tools, so the low level of high speed steel cutter is needless to say.
In addition, also in the high speed steel cutting tools, HSS cutting tools manufacturers also belongs to the hordes of wooden bridge in China, most of the capacity in manufacturing high speed steel drill tool. Tool consumption in Germany in 2006, the consumption of high speed steel tap values are higher than that of high speed steel drill bit consumption values, and our country, the high speed machining tool of domestic consumption is about four times that of HSS thread cutter consumption. According to the analysis, this is not to say that the demand of high speed steel thread cutting tools in China is small, but because of the high speed steel tap manufacture than HSS drill bits is relatively simple, and tap the demands are relatively high, the application is complicated, the domestic many cutting tools manufacturers in the tap for manufacture and sale of services is far cannot meet the demand of domestic consumers, leading to domestic tap consumption similar to carbide cutting tools, relying more on Yu Zaihua international manufacturers. This, we tap manufacturing sales experts from Japan OSG can also get some support in the sales situation. Our domestic tool vendors to secure a position in the competition with the international companies, attaches great importance to the user experience is a must to do.