Mould Industry Association of China from the news that China die steel market continues to expand. At the present development growth projections, 2010 will be the use of Chinese die steel is expected to reach 1 million tons of scale. Die in China in steel, plastic mold steel accounted for about 50 percent, said it expects further growth in demand will be.
However, China's output of steel mold growth is not obvious, tooling industry for high-grade steel mold, the import volume is growing, mold steel imports will also rise significantly. Statistics show that imports mainly came from Japan, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Korea and other places.
It is learnt that the international steel development direction is to enhance the purity of steel, the steel mold commonly used vacuum degassing, ESR, to ensure quality.