2026-06-06 15:24:31
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The Chinese cutting tool industry has achieved a structural transition from 'scale expansion' to 'technological breakthrough' in the past decade. The market size has steadily increased from 32.15 billion yuan in 2016 to 53.8 billion yuan in 2023, and is expected to exceed 55.6 billion yuan in 2026, with a ten-year compound growth rate of 5.64%. Hard alloy cutting tools account for over 52% and have become the absolute dominant category. The overall domestication rate is over 72%, but the domestication rate in high-end fields (aviation engines, semiconductor wafers) is still below 40%. Leading enterprises such as Zhuzhou Diamond, Ouke Yi, and Huarui Precision have broken through the ultra-fine grain matrix, nano multi-layer PVD coating, carbon oxygen doped CVD technology, and developed specialized cutting tools suitable for titanium alloys and quenched steel, some of which have reached international advanced levels of performance. The industry is accelerating its intelligent transformation, with intelligent tool systems, AI predictive maintenance, and digital twin process optimization appearing at exhibitions such as CCMT2026, promoting the implementation of the integrated model of 'tool+process+service'. Driven by the skyrocketing price of tungsten carbide (which will increase fourfold by 2025), small and medium-sized enterprises are accelerating their clearance, and CR10 has significantly improved. Top enterprises have doubled their profits by leveraging their supply chain advantages and technological premiums. In the first quarter of 2026, the net profits of Ouke Yi and Huarui Precision increased by over 400% year-on-year. The export structure continues to upgrade, with the average export price of machine tools soaring by 71% year-on-year from January to February 2026. High value-added CNC cutting tools are accelerating their entry into the high-end markets of Europe and America, building a new industrial ecosystem with technology as the core, data as the link, and services as the extension.