The application of diamond tools has achieved both opportunities and challenges
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Great achievements have been made in the application of diamond tools in stone processing field in China after nearly 20 years of development. Diamond cutting, grinding and special-shaped tools for stone processing have experienced the evolution from scratch, from imitation to substitution of imported products, and then the products are sold all over the world.
Take Fujian province as an example, it is the earliest production of tombstone export to Japan province, the Japanese merchants in the 1990s to order tombstone products, gloss requirements are high, size requirements are accurate. Therefore, the quality of the diamond tools for processing is higher, these products are mainly imported from Mitsuwa Company in Japan, such as diamond resin grinding disc, diamond metal grinding disc, and soft grinding disc. The technical difficulty of these abrasives, from easy to difficult order is: diamond metal grinding disc, diamond resin grinding disc, polishing disc, soft grinding disc, especially polishing disc or polishing, technical difficulty is the highest. The main difficulty is in a certain period of time, polishing glossiness to achieve a certain index, and luster to clear bright. Therefore, the first order of replacing imported products in the market at that time also started with metal millstones and experienced a development process from easy to difficult. In the beginning, the unit price of domestic 8-inch 50# metal grinding disc was about 400 yuan to the users (most of them are only 30 yuan at present). Finally, after the technical problems of optical disc gloss were solved by several domestic manufacturers, stone diamond tool abrasives could basically replace imported products from 1994. But because of disorderly price competition, product prices have fallen year by year, and this competition has also extended to neighboring Countries in Asia. In the Indian market in 1999, the export price (FOB) of the 2-meter common low cobalt diamond cutter head produced in China was about 450 USD, now it has dropped to about 150 USD. Due to the competition of low price, the production cost of products is constantly falling, but the average profit level of the industry is also decreasing year by year.
Since the beginning of this year, on the one hand, the country has carried out macro-adjustment to the industrial structure, on the other hand, the influence of external conditions has caused the following adverse factors for export-oriented enterprises: the depreciation of the US dollar against the RMB directly caused the decline of corporate profits; The tax rebate rate decreases while the VAT paid increases; The US subprime mortgage turmoil caused by the US market weakness; As prices rise, the operating costs of enterprises increase.
Although there are all the disadvantages above, there are also great opportunities for development. National adjustment of industrial structure to upgrade product quality has a positive positive role, face the challenge of the internal and external environment, the way to the development of the diamond tool industry in China is to improve the quality of products, and improve the content of science and technology, innovation, high quality products to participate in market competition in the world, and make China's diamond tools has its place in the world market. An American dealer once said: The quality of Chinese products is now close to the level of Korean products, as long as efforts are made in two aspects: one is the stability of product quality, and the other is the improvement of product details. If these two points make progress, the competitiveness of diamond tools will be greatly enhanced, and China's diamond tools will undoubtedly occupy a place in the world market in the future.
The falling dollar is not just a problem for China, but also for Asian countries such as South Korea. However, the current international market situation of diamond tools in stone processing industry is that European and Japanese products have great brand advantages, and Korean diamond tools products in stone processing industry are still dominant in the world, especially in European and American countries, with stable quality and large market share. For example, in the American market, products made in Japan or Japanese brands are placed in the most prominent position in the distribution store, while it is known that Korean products sell more because they are moderately priced. Some Korean products, including those made in China, have created their own brands in the international market. However, with the improvement of the quality of Chinese products, more and more foreign distributors have come to China to find competitive products.
In order to meet the above challenges and opportunities, Committed to diamond tools company adhere to the market positioning as European and American developed countries, export-oriented strategy unchanged, adhere to the production of high-quality diamond tools, always learning from advanced countries, adhere to the product concept of "difference, exquisite, accurate, quality". The goal of the company is to become a well-known enterprise in the diamond tool industry in the world through the efforts of all employees in three to five years.
So far, the quality of most products of the company has been close to or reached the level of world-renowned enterprises. Company began this year has diamond tools for world-class stone industry dealers cooperation, OEM production of diamond tools for them, in the process of the cooperation, will further promote the company's quality management level, thus for the company in the world diamond tools in the market set up is own brand of stone processing industry and lay a solid foundation.