How is the plastic mold steel market now? Let’s see the market demand for plastic mold steel.

Since the 1980s, the global demand for plastic mold steel has grown rapidly, and now the growth rate has slowed down. Among them, the classic steels 1.2311 and 1.2738 can meet the growing demand for a long time. In the 1990s, the focus of plastic mold steel development was not to improve quality, but to use cheaper steel as much as possible, so growth during this period was more achieved through quantity rather than quality.

However, with changes in engineering applications, those classic steel grades are increasingly unable to meet existing production requirements. These requirements mainly include:
-Mold size
-Complex design
-Hardness and uniformity
-Cleanliness level
-Polished and textured
-Better wear resistance
-Working time
-Solderability during repair

After nearly thirty years of development, the types of mold steel have increased a lot. And a substantial improvement has been made on the basis of the original steel types. The plastics mold steel have been improved by following methods.
1)Improving the metallurgical quality of steel.
2)Increasing the pre-hardening hardness, and improving the production process.
So that it could achieve the wear resistance, polishing performance, corrosion resistance, etc.
These steels are continuously developed to adapt to the production of modern plastic parts.

As the virus is spreading rapidly all over the world, now in China the machines of mask-producing orders are lined up to this June already. And the plastic mold steel material price is increasing every day because of the high consumption on this type of steel. Our OTAI Special steel exports various tool steel,alloy steel and high speed steel to more than 35 countries from Europe and America, Middle East and Asia. Our steel materials meet DIN / ASTM / EN / JIS etc different international standards.

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