About: Elwa

As Chinese Lunar Year coming soon ,we got the feedback from our customer who order 4140 Round Bar Hot Rolled Alloy Steel from us that they need to delay their import process ,and let us help to ” Freetime extention ” of containers shipment .

4140 Round Bar Hot Rolled Steel shipment

We got the news from our customer 2 days ago as follow :

Dear Elwa : MSC  local agent received confirmation from that  free time appears here only  7 days . Please contact your installer agent for free time extension in China.

Some of manufacture industry starting holiday from Jan,2020 (about 20-30 days holiday ) during spring festival .The shipment company and vessel company also start to arrange the holiday schedule .

We  inform to all of customer that please do the import custom process on time ,especially during Chinese Spring festvial .Time is money ,there is not need to pay more other fee for local fee or demurrage because of the import process delay .

Because all extention process of the demurrange / Storage free day will stop during holiday , there is nobody to handle those specail request while on holiday.

Ms Elwa Lee

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Tel: 0086-769-23190193

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Email: Elwa@otaisteel.com

The fluctuation of steel prices being  narrowed throughout 2019 , the pace of changes in prices quickly , and both the price and the industry’s profit center was fell in 2019.

Chinese Lunnar Year coming soon ( 26-Jan,2020 ), there is about 10-20 days holiday for Chinese Manufacture Industry. Here we talk about the Alloy steel  price infulecing factors 2 weeks  before and after Spring Festival .

The Factor of  Alloy steel USD unit price goes up :

• The average freight cost higher .

It is shipping season before Chinese Spring festival ,there is many vessel shchedule line will stop shipment or reduce their shipment line during Chinese Festival holiday .

As you know ,the price will go up in great shipment demand . According the newest offer from our shipment agent ,all the shipment cost by sea was go up 30% at least . Some shipment line ‘s freight twice as much as usual . (such as the Freight from Shanghai to Dubai ： 40GP ：800 USD on Oct.， now it is 1700 USD )

If the the Alloy steel offer base on CIF trade terms ,the offer will be higher even EXW price keep same as before .

• Machined process fee /Heat treatment cost /Domestic cost higher than usual

The new year coming soon ,and all the machined factory or heat treatment shop being crazy busy . And it is easy suffer Labor shortage before the Spring holiday . There is too many drivers for heavy trucks  also will have a holiday and back to hometown in advance ,it will lead to difficult to found a driver to help us shipment the Alloy steel from warehouse to Loading port .

Many production workers will leave their job ,and  look for a new job after Spring Holiday .It will lead to the labor cost higher than before ,then leadto the processing fee higher a little than usual .

Those reason have some influence of alloy steel order which need to processing again , such as do the Quenching and Tempering process ,or milling /Turning  process .

• The USD & RMB currency rate go down compared with Nov.2019 .

Ms Elwa Lee

Mobile/WhatsApp: 0086-15899675236

Tel: 0086-769-23190193

Fax: 0086-769-88705839

Email: Elwa@otaisteel.com

In 2020 new year ,different exihibitions under processing now .and I want to share a fare news of  foundry, diecasting and forge industry exihibition .

As you know ,Otai as the raw material stockist of alloy steel /Tooling steel, we set up long-term cooperation with fountry or forged supplier / mill factories ,and also keep a partner with our docustomer who professional on Diecasting / forged industry .

Biggest trade exhibition for foundry, diecasting and forge industry

Guangzhou International Foundry Diecasting and Forge Industry Exhibition:This international is unique as it will make the foundry diecasting and forge industry conscious of the latest and technologies and the developmental changes which are taking place.

Professional experts from all over the world will take an active part in this Diecasting and Forge  expo and will make this expo more advanced and more popular.  It will bring the industries related to automobile, aerospace, motorcycle, die casting, foundry, electrical appliances, and computer accessories under one roof.

The Diecasting and Forge  Exhibition will exhibit the latest products and services including Cool Die-casting Machines.  Heat Diecasting Machine . Low pressure Diecasting Machine, Peripheral Equipments . Fittings of Diecasting Machines . Gravity Casting .Hydraulic Press Machine, Oil Press Machine, Pattern Making, Equipment. Ventilation Device, Energy Saving and Environmental Protection Device, Diecasting and forge Parts . Also included  the Equipments such as :Pneumatic Equipment, Hydraulic and Fluid Control Equipment, Robot and Peripheral Equipment.

And the Diecasting and Forge  mold & mould equipment such as :  Design and Manufacture Technology of Diecasting Mold, Mold Restoration Technology, foundry equipment, Melting Process and Casting Equipment. Molding and Core Making Equipment Ferrous and Special Casting Equipment. Dipping Equipment, Diecasting Machine and Auxiliary Equipment.

Furnace Materials, Device for Producing and Examining Heat Preservation. Drying Device, Furnace Instrument and Control System.Furnace Machine And Component, Furnace Materials, Fireproof Materials, Gas Device and Heating Material.

Diecasting and Forge

Ms Elwa Lee

Mobile/WhatsApp: 0086-15899675236

Tel: 0086-769-23190193

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Email: Elwa@otaisteel.com

As you now ,Otai focus on tooling steel ,the hot work steel 1.2344 (H13)/1.2343 /1.2714 etc,and plastic mold steel 1.2311(P20) /1.2083 /1.2312 /1.2379 etc.

A customer need 1.2344 Hot work tooling steel .and send the RFQ /List demand to us,we also update our best price to them .

It is a little pity that we did not start business cooperation in 2019  . I share the last email from the customer here :

1.2344 Hot Work Tool Steel in the Otai Warehouse

The email from 1.2344 hot work tooling steel customer ：

Dear Elwa :

Thank you very much for your message and calling.

You know, we are company from S***, which sale steel, special tooling steel. We have one big stock here, and we buy a lot of tooling steel materials for our stock.

We have a lot of cutting machine, because we have many customers, and they want to cut a smaller pieces of all materials. So, we are cutting all the time. We have a lot of work for cutting materials to the smaller pieces. And we have a little bit time (sometimes no time) to choose or decide to order next steel materials. Of course, we need its, and we have to find a time for it. But just now is on S*** holiday time, and we have a lot of employes on the holidays.

My collegue, which is responsible for ordering new materials, is on holiday, and he will return next week. Of course, he don´t work only on ordering, he have a lot of next work.

So, please, we need time to decide and choose the supplier for this materials, we calculate with you of course, but I have no answer at this time for you. So, please, give us the time to correct deciding, and after I will send you my next questions, or answer on your offer. Thank you.

2020 new year coming soon ,there must have something new change ,and hope we can set up win-win cooperation with  the customer soon .

Ms Elwa Lee

Mobile/WhatsApp: 0086-15899675236

Tel: 0086-769-23190193

Fax: 0086-769-88705839

Email: Elwa@otaisteel.com

38CrMoAl is a nitrided Alloy Steel with high wear resistance, high fatigue strength and high strength.

It is mainly used for nitrided parts with precise dimensions after heat treatment, or various nitrided parts with low impact load and high wear resistance. Such as boring bar, grinding machine spindle, automatic lathe spindle, worm, precision screw, precision gear. And also such as High-pressure valves, valve stems, gauges, templates, rollers, replicas, cylinder blocks, compressor piston rods, governors on steam turbines, rotating sleeves, fixing sleeves, various wear-resistant parts on rubber and plastic extruders, etc.

We dealed with a 38CrMoAl Alloy Steel  project before with a middle east customer .

Order confirm of 38CrMoAl Alloy Steel round bar

Customer need 26 tons 1.8509 alloy steel, Otai Steel engineer suggest 38CrMoAl to them .There is rare 1.8509 stock material in China ,all of Chinese steel mill production 38CrMoAl instead of 1.8509.

Customer try to order 1.8550 /1.8507 /1.8519 instead of 1.8509 alloy steel round bar .and our engineer update the folow chemical composition as below to customer for reference . and customer Choose 38CrMoAl finally .

The order delivery condition as follow :

–1.Hot Rolled；;Black Surface

–2.Hardness：160~260HB

–3.Length：4000~6000mm

–4.UT-SEP 1921C/C or Better

–5.Chmical Analyzed 38CrMoAl ( or 1.8509 )

–6.Fix Diameter ( Accept the tolerance -/+1.5mm)

–7.SGS or other third party inspection under buyer‘s arrangement

Order inspector of 38CrMoAl Alloy Steel Round bar .

After our QC feedback for the test process of inspector,the inspector did not do the steel test before ,and there without some mistake of the test way .

1.First ,the goods is Hot Rolled,Black Surface ,and there is reasonable with rusted ,Black sueface means the item is Ex-mill condition cover with Oxide Layer.

Alloy Steel Black surface + Bright Surface

2.About the unit weight  and Label “38CrMoALA”, each of the sizes produced in a factory and aligned with the printed label.

3.About the Diameter ,The inspector did not use the Vernier Caliper to check it. AGS is the first one who use the length ruler to check it.

After the long meeting with customer , they agree our test report instead of AGS .and finished 38CrMoAl Alloy Steel round bar shipment and payment process as usually .

Ms Elwa Lee

Mobile/WhatsApp: 0086-15899675236

Tel: 0086-769-23190193

Fax: 0086-769-88705839

Email: Elwa@otaisteel.com

1.2714 Tooling Steeel :

Material properties 40 HRC pre-hardened standard grade suitable for hot work tools and for the plastic mold industry. High resistance to wear, high toughness, good polishing properties.

1.2714 tooling steel applications Forging dies, hot shear knives, hot punching tools, die holders. Plastic injection or compression mould cores and cavities, large – size moulds with high quality finish, compression dies under high mechanical and thermal stresses. Thermoplastics (PE, PS, PP), LFT, thermosetting plastics, ABS, transparent melts.

A German customer sent an Inquiry of 1.2714 tooling steel to us ,the list as follow :

• W.1.2714 hot rolled, +QT to max 380 HB, bar end sawn cut, 2 sides as rolled.
• Thickness:20-30-40-50-60-70-80-90-100-110-120
• Width: 800 -1150mm
• Length: 3000-4000 mm
• Each thickness 2 tons

We did not win the offer because size and MOQ unworkable .

For the 1.2714 tooling steel material, there is rare stock of hot rolled ,thickness 50-120mm in the inventory market .

If arrange  hot rolled new production ,MOQ : 100 tons each size ,an order MOQ 300 tons which suitable .Customer t can not meet the MOQ .

For forged new production , There is only  the state mill such as Baosteel / Dongbei steel ‘s machine can produce   Max width 810mm

• MOQ : 20 tons each size
• Price higher 40%than market price
• Leadtime will follow their production line’s schedule (more than 3 months )

It is also impossible for the 1.2714 RFQ .

If we arrange the order to Small and medium forged house, their forging equipment only support to producing width Max 610mm .Their Forged hammer like the photo,it  can not forged the width 800mm by one time ,It need to forged it again and again, the edge will warped up,but not smoothly.especially for the thin thickness 20-40mm ,it is too thin to arrange forged .

We suggest customer  change the width  810mm as 610mm , he think it is unworkable for them ,and they ordered 1.2714 tooling steel from local market again finally .

Ms Elwa Lee

Mobile/WhatsApp: 0086-15899675236

Tel: 0086-769-23190193

Fax: 0086-769-88705839

Email: Elwa@otaisteel.com

Otai focus on alloy steel business over 20 years ,we do our business trip to visit customer or new oversea market each year in recently 5 years .

We got a feedback from a customer that : you visited my customer as you coming to our market ,and our customer use you own price to let us cut down our cost .it is hurt for our us  .I was deeply touched on the feedback .

We aimed at knowing the market better by steel business trip to customer .

We know customer better ,and then set up long-term &stable cooperation with 1-3 customers,but not sell our alloy steel  to each customer directly .

–Otai do the wholesale service of mold steel & Alloy steel .

–Otai focus on long-term & win-win cooperation of steel business .

–Otai in accordance with the principle of prudent operation,and will visit and follow customer feedback by business trip.

–Otai aim at stable partner-customer, but not sell to each customer ,The order ,the more the better ;The customer ,the more professional ,the better .

For the steel business trip to alloy steel market , it is a long-term direction combined with Otai’s business model. However ,the purpose is to know the market well, but not looking for each customer for cooperation.

Seller choose cooperated partners same as  buyer choose their suppliers .

Just like customer will choose their suppliers, we also choose the customer according to our business model. There is more than 20 suppliers in customer’s supplier list,Customer will contact or meeting with them in the early stage,but not means they will cooperate with each of them . (the suppliers ,may some one is mill factory ,distributor ,stockist same as Otai steel ,or trade company) Customer choose or change them according to their business mode /order request / payment terms etc.,As seller ,we focus on set up long-term cooperation with 1-3 customers,but not sell our material to each customer or end user in a oversea market . ( it will take too much time to contact the purchase requirement and follow up feedback of after-sale,we do wholesale ,but not retail )

Knowing a market better can help avoid business risk as possible as we could.

International business will under bigger trade risk under government policy /Credit / exchange rate /price / Shipment etc. ,which compared with the local business activities, Otai do the steel business with steady management over 20 years ,we more seriously for market than other peers .Otai only in charging of reasonable but not huge profit ,and avoiding the risk both customers & Otai as possible as we could .

If we know a oversea market better ,we will know what should we do ,how to do well ,and what we can do better .

special alloy steel

Ms Elwa Lee

Mobile/WhatsApp: 0086-15899675236

Tel: 0086-769-23190193

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Email: Elwa@otaisteel.com

High speed steel is divided into Melting high speed steel and powder metallurgy high speed steel.

Powder High Speed Steel (powder treated steel) is one of high speed steel,which produced by high pressure argon or pure Nitrogen atomized molten process.

Advantages of Powder High Speed Steel :

(1) With well and uniform crystalline structure can be obtained.It has good mechanical properties.

The carbide distribution is more uniform, resulting in stronger strength and toughness, and greater variable opening force.

(2) With better grinding property than general high speed steel ,

It can help to improve the grinding efficiency while it processing as tools ,  and it will  have a well grinding surface for cutting item.

(3) Decresing the deformation as quenching heat treatment process .

(4) The wear resistance more 20%-30% than general high speed steel .

(5) High qualified production rate of hot-forming .

Application:

Suitable for manufacturing cutting tools and large size tools (such as: hob, gear shaper, etc.), It is also suitable for manufacturing precision tools and complex tools which with large grinding capacity, and use in those tools (continuous cutting tools) used under high pressure dynamic load.

Powder high speed steel, It make up for the common high speed steel inherent defects because of the  the good structure uniformity and carbide segregation characteristics, , and improve High speed steel quality and performance .

Ms Elwa Lee

Mobile/WhatsApp: 0086-15899675236

Tel: 0086-769-23190193

Fax: 0086-769-88705839

Email: Elwa@otaisteel.com

High speed steel is one of high alloy tool steel with more chemical composition of  W, Mo, Cr, V and other alloying elements. Usually ,The HSS with follow property

• High thermal stability
• High strength and toughness
• Simple manufacturing process
• The cutting performance is stable.

According to different  Usage :

it is classified as  generalhigh speed steels and high performance high speed steel.

General high speed steel: Carbon chemical composition : 0.7%-0.9%, it is also named For medium thermal stability high – speed steel according to the heat resistance . it is widely used in the manufacture of various complex cutting tools because of its good thermal stability and cutting performance.

The HSS is very famous by the cutting tooling for cutting those structural steel and cast ingot which  hardness below 250-280HB, The Cutting speed is not too high, cutting ordinary steel should not be higher than 40-60m/min.

According to the difference of Chemical composition :

it is divided into: tungsten(W)HSS and WMo high speed steel 

W HSS steel( Tungsten): W18Cr4V (referred to as W18),Chemical W18%, Cr4%, V1%,

High temperature hardness at 600℃ is 48.5HRC, which be used to manufacture a variety of complex tools.

Advantages: Low Thermal tendency , Good wear resistance, Plastic deformation resistance.

Weakness: strength and toughness is not enough to do large section tool, thermoplastic difference.Because the shortcomings, and the market price of tungsten is too expensive,and many countries won’t use the high W HSS material .

Cutting tools of high speed steel

Ms Elwa Lee

Mobile/WhatsApp: 0086-15899675236

Tel: 0086-769-23190193

Fax: 0086-769-88705839

Email: Elwa@otaisteel.com