Continuous rise in price of main raw materials of powder metallurgy extruding the profit space

2017-12-27 powder metallurgy business network

Since the fourth quarter of last year, theprice of steel has gone up and up more than 40%. In December 5, 2017, the steelprice index was up to 5230 points at the highest point of the year. Affected bythis influence, the price of the main raw material of powder metallurgy wateratomized iron powder is also soaring rapidly. According to the statistics ofthe West Shinkansen, the scrap price has risen from 1800 yuan / ton at thebeginning of the year to 2600 yuan / ton now, or nearly 45%. As the main rawmaterial used in powder metallurgy iron ore reduction iron stone recently rosesignificantly, the price bottomed out since the beginning of November, a twomonth high road has been up more than 20%. The production of reduced ironpowder in other major raw materials such as iron and steel rolling scale, coke,natural gas prices are way up.

In view of the above raw materials pricescontinue to soar, our domestic water atomized iron powder metallurgy and theiron powder manufacturer under the pressure of the cost can only adjust the price,the price of water atomized iron powder metallurgy has been from the beginningof the 5500 yuan / ton or so directly up to 6500 yuan / ton, or nearly 20%,powder metallurgical commonly used 100 mesh fine iron powder is about 4600 yuanfrom the beginning / ton rose to 5100 yuan / ton, rose more than 10%. Inaddition, the copper powder and nickel powder, which are commonly used inpowder metallurgy, have also been increased by the price of raw materials.

For our powder metallurgy manufacturers, the price of these mainpowders, such as atomized iron powder, reduced iron powder, copper powder andnickel powder, will increase production cost. However, our powder metallurgyparts manufacturers supporting the main industries such