subject: The Existing Problems In China Domestic Mold Material Market [print this page] Mold materials has a wide range, from the general carbon structural steel, alloy structural steel, carbon tool steel, alloy tool steel, high-speed tool steel, stainless steel, maraging steel to carbide, insoluble alloy, high-temperature alloys, non-ferrous metals can be chosen, which are mainly alloy tool steel mold steel. With the development of China's mold industry, higher requirement need for quantity, quality, variety and performance of mold material, and the mold materials market also has a rapid development. For example: Mega Mould and Demark Blow Mold
The domestic trial production of die materials lagged behind the demand of mold industry, mainly due to the follows facts:
1- Sales channel is not open and smooth.
2- Black round bar material is plenty, while the flat, fined, pre-hardened materials and products standard parts are lack. 80% of the die steel market in China is black round material, so the customers have to reforge or refine the material, which caused low utilization of material and the long production cycle, even cannot meet the needs of the manufacturing mold.
3- Common-quality mold steel material is plenty, while high-quality ones are lack. And there are considerable part of the HQ mold steel needs go through the vacuum refining and electro-slag remelting. Some foreign companies require all the mold steel need electro-slag remelting as long as it"s cross-section is over 150mm in order to ensure high purity, high-density, high tropism, but in our country the die steel through the ESR only hold a small share.
