tungsten carbide price

     In the recent period, manufacturers have had to buy cemented carbide tools at higher market prices. The reason for the price increase of cemented carbide tools is the soaring price of ammonium paratungstate (APT), the raw material used to make tools.

Ammonium paratungstate (abbreviated as APT) has been widely used for large-scale mass production of metallurgical chemical methods for many years. The national standard of APT also mainly relates to its chemical performance indicators. There are few requirements for physical performance indicators and cannot fully reflect the inherent quality of APT. As a result, most APTs meet the national standards required by chemical indicators. However, when used as raw materials to produce tungsten oxide, tungsten powder, tungsten carbide powder and to prepare alloys, there are obvious differences in product performance. Especially in the production of ultra-fine nano-tungsten powder, In the process of ultra-fine nano tungsten carbide powder and ultra-fine nano cemented carbide, this requirement for raw material APT, especially the requirements for physical properties, requires special attention.

    China is a big country with a shortage of cobalt resources but extensive demand. Cobalt is mainly used in industrial fields such as cemented carbide smelting, lithium battery manufacturing, and ceramic color and glaze production. The domestic market's demand for cobalt products has increased year by year, and it has become a successor to the United States. After Japan, the third largest consumer of cobalt and the largest producer of cobalt, in the future, with the continuous development of my country's economy, especially the development of the lithium battery industry, the application of cobalt will be more extensive and the demand will be greater.

     In 2011, the state once again included high-end cemented carbide in the "New Material Industry "Twelfth Five-Year" Development Plan" to focus on the development of new materials. Product market development from the three core application areas of cemented carbide, cutting tools, mining tools, and wear-resistant parts Starting from the prospect, it clarified the representative high-tech, high-value-added products and their expected performance indicators in the cemented carbide field, focusing on the analysis of ultra-fine and nano-sized cemented carbide, ultra-coarse-grained cemented carbide, coating technology and tungsten. The key technologies that are in urgent need of breakthroughs in terms of resource efficiency, environmental protection and comprehensive utilization, summarized cermet cutting tools, new binder phase cemented carbide, diamond dispersion strengthened cemented carbide, ultra-fine non-bonded phase WC cemented carbide, and hardened steel. High-quality alloys and other development directions worthy of attention.

    Recently, the price of cemented carbide products has fluctuated greatly, which has attracted great attention from domestic and foreign mining companies and economic circles. The phenomenon and law of price fluctuations are worth studying, grasp the internal and external factors that cause this phenomenon, and use them to adjust the rhythm of my country's cemented carbide industry , Which is conducive to the healthy and sustained and rapid development of my country's economy.

How does Zhuzhou Guangsheng Cemented Carbide Co., Ltd. respond to the rise in cemented carbide materials?

1. Production process

        Only by improving the manufacturing process can tools with high hardness, high wear resistance, absorption of cutting impact, high removal rate processing and interrupted cutting processing be made without damaging the toughness or grindability of the material.

2. Making materials

         If you want to improve the performance of traditional cemented carbide tools, you can also work hard on the tool making materials.

3. Production equipment

       Improve the production performance of production equipment. For example, carbide particles used to make tools, the smaller the volume and the more uniform the distribution, the better the performance of the produced tools. If the production equipment can grind the carbide particles finer and more uniformly, the performance of the produced tool will definitely be greatly improved.

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