Today, the field of carbide is highly competitive. Although tungsten carbide is still the main material of the cutting, mining, etc., it is facing the passive situation that some fields is substituted by Diamond.  Competitive advantage of tungsten carbide is not very clear: compared with domestic enterprises, product quality has no significant difference. But the production and variety are not as goog as strains hard alloy (over 5000 tons), and there is no clear catch-up schedule.


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Experts believe that the tool material has entered the era of tungsten carbide, comparing with the high-speed steel, tungsten carbide has better performance and higher cutting efficiency, the same as superhard materials, it is an important guarantee for the efficient processing of modern cutting technology. Currently, our tungsten carbide cutting tools' proportion is up to 40%, which is far less than the level of the industrial countries and severely restricts the overall level improvement of our tool products. Without a good tool materials, tool innovation and progress of the cutting process are short of the necessary material basis. A fundamental solution to this Problem,it relates to the adjustment of industry structure, and speed up the process of building a tungsten carbide materials and researching the tool production base.


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The main problems of tungsten carbide industry in China are the following, first, small scale enterprises, industry concentration is not high. According to incomplete statistics, 199 tungsten carbide enterprises' average annual production capacity is 176 tons, with an average annual production of 86 tons, only 4 can get annual output of more than 1,000 tons. Second, less investment in science and technology, and the lack of high-end technical personnel, R & D capability is weak. Tungsten carbide industry's inputs in China in science and technology is less than 3% of the sales revenue, scientific technical and R & D level is not high. Third, the level of product quality is low, product structure needs to be adjusted. The production of tungsten carbide in China accounted for more than 40% of world production, but tungsten carbide sales income is less than 20% of the world, it is because the high-performance ultra-fine alloy, high-performance precision grinding blade coating, super-hard tool materials, complexity products, precision carbide CNC tool and high value-added products is less, the deep processing facilities is insufficient as well as due to incomplete varieties.


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In recent years, the domestic production of tungsten carbide bar has been growing, but with the growing demand, the market demand outstrips supply, the demand for quality inspection is also facing difficulties. Detection of domestic tungsten carbide bar is commonly manual, it consumes more labor power, and the test result is unstable, thus automated testing equipment gradually is more favored by the majority of manufacturers.

According to related statistics, tungsten carbide bar includes high hardness, high wear resistance, high strength, and resistance to bending, long tool life and a series of excellent performance. Tungsten carbide bar is the blank material of producing drill and cutting tool, at present, it mainly adopts powder extrusion molding process. It is now widely used in producing drill, automotive tools, printed circuit board tool, engine tool, solid end mills, the overall reamer, chisel, etc., but also in producing the punch, mandrel, top and punch tool.

With the surge in market demand, the ultra-fine grain tungsten carbide bar has been more and more widely used. In the field of high-speed cutting tool, due to the high standards of safety, reliability and durability, internal and surface quality requirements of overall tungsten carbide cutting tools are more stringent. However, with the quality of tungsten carbide bar especially the ultrafine carbide is improving continuously, the quality of the surface of overall tungsten carbide cutting tools is more and more being taken seriously.


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With the rapid expansion of China's automobile industry, the demand for auto parts processing cutting tools is also increasing. In China steel, transportation, construction and other fields, the demand for tungsten carbide is also increasingly strong. In the foreign tungsten carbide MNCs' Strategic picture, Chinese market has been quietly from a supporting role to the protagonist.

The analysis pointed out that up to the end of the "12th Five-Year plan", Chinese tungsten carbide production reached 30,000 tons, sales income reached 300 billion yuan, the production of deep-processed products accounted for 40% of the total tungsten carbide. Exports compared to the "11th Five-Year plan" will double, and strive to be more than 1 billion U.S. dollars. Tungsten carbide will develop towards to the direction of intensive processing, ultra-fine, ultra-thick coating composite structure; to the recycling economy, energy saving and environmental protection direction; precision and miniaturization direction.


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In 2012, China tungsten carbide production level reaches 1.65 million tons, 4,500 tons are for the production of cutting tools, on the quantity, there has no big difference with Japan. But after the tool is made, the value is only 800 million U.S. dollars, is far less than the $ 2.5 billion in Japan, which fully shows that the overall production level of tungsten carbide still has a considerable gap. Therefore, domestic enterprises can not meet the market demand, the needs of the manufacturing sector will have to rely heavily on imports to solve.

Data shows that the sales annual growth rate of the main foreign sales in high-end tool market of China reaches 30%, it is more than the average annual growth level of domestic knives.


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Tungsten carbide rods are often applied in various kinds of drills ,drill bits, micro drills, carbide end mills and reamers, mold punches, core pins and hole drills tools. Tungsten carbide rods are widely used in drills and end mills .Carbide grade YG10X is special for non ferrous precision cutting carbide grade YG6X is for wood cutting. Grade YG8X is fiber glass reinforced plastic.

The tungsten carbide solid round rods we produced are with good high hardness and precision, with super high wear resistant and impact-resistant. Our carbide rods are also with excellent performance in some sticky metal cutting which needs good shock and bending resistance.

Hard tungsten scrap  prices keep at USD12.25-12.75/lb for consumers; a USD0.25/lb increase compared to late April.

US has been reporting slightly higher figures over the past two weeks from what seems to be caused by rampant buying of tungsten products last month by large Chinese players. Players noted a rather interesting anomaly, mentioning that other areas of the market are still operating at an unchanged pace while scrap activity seems to be upticking as well.

Some commented that there could be some future growth in the manufacturing sector due to the recent appreciation, however, many believe that raw materials were primarily forced up, causing the entire market to experience an uptick with minimal product available for purchase.

One US-based distributor of hard tungsten scrap, who quoted rates at USD12.50-12.75/lb, stated that he was able to sell his position a week-and-a-half ago at USD12.75/lb with no negation or difficulty.

The source mentioned that major consumers seem to be buying now, which could show concern for future availability in the short-term. With scrap prices up, along with carbide, he believes the next few months could bring with it some interesting activity.

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 Ferro-tungsten market shows no obvious improvements in China.

China tungsten concentrate prices moved up gradually, and ferro-tungsten suppliers held offers firm. Chinese ferro-tungsten market continued to be quiet, and most of the deals depended on the long-term orders.

Although the inquiries from the oversea market increase, the transaction prices are unfavorable.

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European ferro-tungsten market still expecting further price increases.

The start of the new week has brought about further increases in the ferro-tungsten prices in the European market, with concluded business between USD45.50-46.00kg W d.d.p to European steel plants on Monday, up USD0.50kg W from last week. 

With new shipments of material from the large Vietnamese ferro-tungsten producer now not expected to leave until June because of current production difficulties at the plant, offering prices of material held by suppliers in Rotterdam have increased to highs of USD47.00kg W in warehouse Rotterdam as of Monday.

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