Japan's mold business advantage is still shrinking is a superficial phenomenon

Recently, the network has repeatedly reported that the Japanese mold industry is shrinking, pointing out that Japan is planning to transfer mold manufacturing to other countries. In fact, Japanese tool and die enterprises are actively developing competitive marketing strategies to cope with the severe challenges of the market environment. The advantages of Japanese tool and die enterprises still exist. Foreign: vigorously open up overseas markets Japan's mechanical mold output value in 2000 increased by 10.9% compared with 1999, reaching 377.121 billion yen. Among them, high-speed steel cutting tools, diamond tools, CBN tools have double-digit growth; cemented carbide tools accounted for about 50% of the total output value of the tool, and the output value of cemented carbide tools increased by 9.3% in 2000. After entering 2001, as the demand of the semiconductor industry and the machine tool industry turned weak, the tool and die industry was affected by it, and production and sales began to decline. Among them, the demand for PCB drill bits for processing printed circuit boards is the most serious, and the reduction of high-speed steel tools is generally similar. At present, various tool manufacturers pay great attention to the demand trends of the automotive and IT electronics industries. These two industries are the main users of cutting tools, and their demand changes have obvious impact on the tool and die industry. At the same time, the pressure to reduce costs is also huge. The market size of global cutting tools is about 1.1 trillion yen, of which 400 billion yen is in the United States and Europe, and 300 billion yen in the Asian region. The annual growth rate of demand for tools in the world is expected to be 3% from 2003 to 2.6% in 2006. The expansion of users is mainly concentrated in the United States and Asia. Therefore, the Japanese tool and die industry will vigorously explore overseas markets. In 2000, the proportion of Japanese tool exports reached 20% for the first time. Domestic: vigorously carry out mergers and acquisitions Large-scale users generally demand to strengthen supply capacity and after-sales service. In order to adapt to this situation, Japanese tool and die enterprises have vigorously carried out industrial restructuring activities such as mergers or business cooperation. In 1999, Toshiba Tungaloy and US Kennametal Hertel, Fuji Seiko and Germany Guhring signed a business cooperation agreement. In 2000, Mitsubishi Materials Corporation acquired Kobelco Tools Co., Ltd. and established MCC Kobelco Tools Co., Ltd. as a subsidiary of Mitsubishi. The acquisition and merger activities of these large manufacturers have formed a new supply system for cutting tools worldwide. The advantage of Japanese tooling companies still exists . Accelerate the pace of product development. The automotive industry is a major demand for cutting tools. Its usage accounts for about 60% of tool products. The demand trend of the automotive industry is the focus of the tool industry. In addition, in recent years, the booming IT mold industry has rapidly increased the demand for small-diameter tool products. In the field of cutting and processing, high-precision, high-speed, high-efficiency machining has received unprecedented attention. With the strengthening of people's environmental awareness, dry cutting technology has made great progress, and the development of dry cutting tools has been extremely remarkable. The pace of new product development for tooling and indexable structures is further accelerated.
The material of the cutting tool is still dominated by coated cemented carbide in recent years, and the change is not obvious. However, the coating technology itself has made great progress, and the composite coating with excellent heat resistance and wear resistance is large. Appearance, the application of coatings such as TiC, TiN, TiCN, TiAlN has become quite popular. Coated tools have become the hallmark of modern tools, with a ratio of more than 50% in the tool. As a tool for high-speed machining, it must be made of a high-hardness material with excellent wear resistance. Among these materials, ceramic is the most ideal type. Ceramic knives have high hardness under high temperature conditions, excellent resistance to plastic deformation, and are less prone to oxidative wear. However, its shortcomings are also obvious, that is, the texture is brittle and easy to damage. Recently, new ceramic varieties have been developed, and their shortcomings have been greatly reduced. For example, coated ceramics and FRC ceramics with SiC reinforcing fibers have been put on the market. Now, new ceramic tools can be used for high-speed cutting of Ni-based superalloys. Processing. Sumitomo Electric has developed a new type of tool material, which is a special ceramic coating on the CBN200/CBN80 (cubic boron nitride sintered body). This special coating improves the wear resistance of the material by 30%. Tool life has been greatly extended. This new tool is mainly used for high-speed machining of high-hardness hardened steel and cast iron commonly used in the automotive industry. The company plans to achieve sales of 1.2 billion yen in two years. 2. Development of ultra-fine grain tool materials In order to achieve high-speed and high-precision machining, various manufacturers are vigorously developing new tool materials sintered from fine-grain metal powder. As is known, diamond is the tool material with the highest hardness. However, when the cutting temperature exceeds 800 °C, the diamond tool will diffuse with other carbon solid solution substances such as Fe, Co, and Ni. Therefore, diamond tools are not suitable for steel cutting. When processing high-hardness materials, tool materials such as cemented carbide and cermet should be used. Especially, ultra-fine grained cemented carbide (particle size below 1μm) should be used. This material has high hardness and good toughness and cutting tool. High reliability and excellent performance. Ultra-fine grained carbide tools have excellent performance, and even if they are used in unstable machining such as low-speed or intermittent cutting, the tool will not cause abnormal damage such as chipping or breakage. Since the 1990s, the application of ultra-fine grained carbide tools has been extensive, especially in the high-speed cutting of difficult-to-machine materials. After entering the new century, these materials have been coated and their performance has been further improved. At present, such tools are being used in a large number of high-hardness steel, stainless steel and Fe-based, Ni-based Co-based and other superalloys. CBN cutters are second only to diamonds in hardness, and their properties are superior to those of ceramic tools. Therefore, they are suitable for the machining of high hardness materials such as hardened steel and chilled cast iron, as well as sintered structures, sintered stainless steel, and Co-based superalloys. With the strengthening of environmental awareness, dry cutting technology has received great attention. The tool used for dry cutting must have the following characteristics: in terms of thermal properties, coating materials with good heat resistance and heat dissipation; in terms of lubrication effect, coating materials with excellent lubricating properties; in terms of chip removal performance, Design a tool shape that facilitates chip breaking and chip removal. So far, Japanese tool manufacturers have developed a variety of cutting tools for dry machining, such as AQUA's AQUA drill series, Sumitomo's AC1000 coated inserts, ZX coated end mills, and Hitachi Tools' epoch end mills. Knives and MG coated blades. Three-prosperous tool re-grinding industry In recent years, due to the rising prices of raw materials, and in order to save resources, the development of technology that recycles carbide scrapping blades and recycling resources is reactive, and tool manufacturers are actively involved. This business. Large-scale carbide tool manufacturers such as Mitsubishi Materials, Sumitomo Electric, Toshiba Tungaloy, Dijet, Hitachi Tools, Japan Tungsten, Fuji Mould, etc., in order to ensure a stable supply of resources and reduce production costs, the used tools are reused. Measures. Among them, Hitachi Tools Co., Ltd. is vigorously carrying out the recycling business of scrapped tools nationwide in Japan. The Narita branch is the main production base for the company's cemented carbide tools. It is now in the process of constructing a new workshop for the recycling of scrapped tools. It will be merged with the original workshops in Osaka to form the recycling of old tools from Hitachi. center. Tool regrind is one of the effective forms of reusing resources, and the regrind industry has become increasingly large. According to statistics, there are 500 to 600 companies engaged in tool re-grinding in Japan, including tool manufacturing plants, mechanical processing plants, and various commercial regrind institutions. Although the exact re-grinding market size is still unclear, in the economic downturn, users are demanding to reduce tool costs. Therefore, the general trend of tool re-grinding market is expanding, roughly estimating its market size. It is roughly between 20 billion and 30 billion yen.

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