Counterweight is one kind of weights that used to increase the weight of somethings in order to maintain balance. It can generally be called as counterbalance weight or aggravation block when designing products in the industrial. Counterweights have been widely used, we need to use counterweights when designing and manufacturing many products, such as larger elevator weights, machinery weights, furniture weights, etc., but for the small volume weights, they would be used in electronics weights, appliances weights and a variety of pedestal weights (such as table lamps weights, floor lamps weights, the frets pedestal weights, paper towel holder weights, knife block weights, toy distribution weights and fans pedestal weights, etc.). Counterweights are used widely but in fact it has only one but most important effect, that is to balance the weight of products. In addition, the counterweights also have some assemble effects, for example, they can improve the quality and grade of products. Thus, the counterweights are indispensable in some products. Producing weights with different materials would have different usefulness, and the performance is also different.

The counterweights that manufactured with lead raw materials have wide applications in people's lives, and also exerted great effects. However, with the development of socio-economic level, people now does not limit their fields of vision  on the excessive restrictions production, protection of the environment and governance has become an important emphasis. At this time, tungsten alloy came into our lives and replaced the lead to become the best raw material which is most suitable for the manufacturing of counterweights. 

 

Why tungsten alloy has such an important role in the production of the counterweight? The reason is that tungsten alloy is a kind of alloys which basically made with tungsten and mixed with some other metals, and tungsten has the highest melting point of all metals, which makes it has a high temperature strength and creep resistance as well as excellent thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity and electron emission performance. The important reason for tungsten alloy becoming the most suitable material to making counterweights is that it has large specific gravity and non-polluting. The same volume of tungsten and lead, compared to lead, the density of tungsten is higher, its specific gravity is greater, and therefore it’s more suitable for the applications fields where need the counterweights with small volume but good performance, such as yachts, racing, golf, spacecraft and so on.