Past and present life of diamond saw blade

Tools are the extension of human capabilities and the lever to promote social development and progress.

 

In the history of human development, tools play an irreplaceable role, and with the requirements of high efficiency and high precision, the production technology requirements for tools are becoming higher and higher.

In 1955, synthetic diamond was successfully synthesized in the United States for the first time, which laid the foundation for the manufacture and promotion of diamond tools, and also brought dawn to the processing industry of many hard and brittle non-metallic materials. It has become an epoch-making tool revolution in human history. Its processing efficiency is significantly higher than that of the past. Diamond tools, with its incomparable performance advantages, have become recognized today The only effective tool for machining hard and brittle non-metallic materials.

 

In the 1960s, the diamond tool manufacturing industry took the lead in realizing industrialization and rapid development in developed countries in Europe and America.

 

In the 1970s, Japan won the competitive advantage with its relatively low manufacturing cost and quickly became one of the leading players in the diamond tool manufacturing industry.

 

In the 1980s, South Korea replaced Japan as a rising star in the diamond tool industry.

 

In the 1990s, with the rise of China's manufacturing industry in the world, China's diamond tool manufacturing industry also began to start and gradually showed strong competitiveness. Today, China has more than 1000 diamond tool manufacturers with an annual output value of more than 10 billion yuan, becoming one of the main suppliers of the international diamond tool market after South Korea.

In recent years, with China's technological accumulation and progress in the diamond tool manufacturing industry, Chinese diamond tool enterprises have been fully equipped with the ability to manufacture medium and high-end diamond tools, and have a significant advantage in product cost performance. The technical monopoly of western countries in the medium and high-end professional market has been broken.

 

The trend of Chinese diamond tool enterprises entering the middle and high-end market has emerged.

 

According to the purpose, diamond tools can be divided into sawing tools, drilling tools, abrasive tools and other tools. The annual output value of sawing tools accounts for 60% - 70% of the total output value of superhard abrasive products.

 

Diamond saw blades account for the highest proportion of diamond tools. According to the prediction of the superhard materials branch of the China Machine Tool and Tool Industry Association, the foreign market capacity of diamond saw blades has reached 25 billion yuan. According to the customs data in recent years, China's annual export of diamond saw blades should be around 300 million dollars, about 2 billion yuan. Therefore, the structural space of foreign markets is still large, and the export prospects are very broad.

 

The domestic diamond saw blade market capacity exceeds 200 million pieces per year. According to the unit price of 25 yuan per piece of diamond saw blade, the domestic diamond saw blade market capacity reaches 5 billion yuan, and the global diamond saw blade market scale has exceeded 30 billion yuan.

 

At present, the application field of global diamond tools is constantly expanding, and the demand for professional high-end products is on the rise. In addition to the accelerated process of the transfer of the world diamond tool industry to China's industry, the market scale of China's diamond tool industry will continue to expand. In the future, it is expected that the demand growth of the domestic market will be 15-20% in the next three years.

 

The diamond saw blade matrix is the core support component of the diamond saw blade, which accounts for 30% of the raw material cost of the diamond saw blade. Generally, the raw material cost of diamond saw blade accounts for about 85% of its sales cost, and the overall gross profit rate of the superhard material industry is 20.8%. Based on this, it can be estimated that the market capacity of diamond saw blade matrix accounts for about 20% of the diamond saw blade. Therefore, the global market capacity of diamond saw blade matrix has reached more than 6 billion yuan.