Analysis of China's Cutting Tool Industry Facing Foreign Competition

At present, China's cutting tool companies have already occupied half of the market through continuous learning and strategic planning. However, the company still highlights several fatal problems in the development process. If insufficient attention is paid to improper handling, it will seriously affect companies. The development and advancement.

At this stage, cemented carbide tools have dominated the tool type in developed countries, with a proportion of up to 70%. However, high-speed steel cutters are being reduced by 1% to 2% per year, and the proportion has now fallen below 30%.

At the same time, carbide cutting tools have become the main tool required by processing companies in China, and are widely used in the automotive and parts production, mold manufacturing, aerospace and other heavy industries, but China's cutting tool companies are blindly and massively The production of high-speed steel knives and some low-grade standard knives does not take into account the market saturation and the needs of enterprises. Ultimately, the high-end, high-tech cutting-edge tool market has been given away to foreign companies.

According to statistics, the current annual sales of cutting tools in China are approximately 14.5 billion yuan, of which cemented carbide tools account for less than 25% of the total. However, the carbide cutting tools required by the domestic manufacturing industry already account for more than 50% of the cutting tools. Blind production has already failed to meet the growing demand for carbide cutting tools in the domestic manufacturing industry, thus forming a vacuum in the mid-to-high end market and eventually being occupied by foreign companies.

In 2007, of the 16,500 tons of hard alloys produced in China, 4,500 tons were used for the production of cutting tools, and the number was comparable to that of Japan. However, the value of finished tools is only US$800 million, which is far less than Japan’s US$2.5 billion. This fully shows that the overall production level of domestic high-performance cemented carbide cutting tools is still quite different from that of foreign countries. Therefore, under the premise that domestic companies cannot meet the market demand, the demand for manufacturing will have to be solved by relying on a large number of imports.

The annual growth rate of sales of major foreign companies in China's high-end cutting tool market has reached 30%, which has exceeded the average annual growth rate of domestic-made cutting tools.

In 2012, the Sandvik Group celebrated its 150th anniversary and celebrated this grand event, and continued to inherit Sandvik's centennial accumulation in talent cultivation. Sandvik’s world’s largest cutting tool brand, Sandvik Coromant, With the theme of “Wonderful Witnesses and Welcome to the Future”, 150 mechanical or CNC students were invited from the colleges and universities in 9 cities across the country to participate in the cutting camps held in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing and Wuhan. Encourage young students to join the machinery processing industry and lay a solid foundation for promoting the transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry.

Nearly 120 teachers and students from 18 institutions including Guangzhou Electromechanical Technician College, Shanghai Jiaotong University, and Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics visited the modern mechanical processing workshop and key universities during the summer camp activities in Guangzhou Station, Shanghai Station and Beijing Railway Station. In the lab, we listened carefully to the special lectures on the application of cutting tool technology by Huang Yi engineers, carefully observed the live milling demonstration of modern milling art parts, and participated in the assembly and disassembly contest of typical cutting tools in person. technology.