Took five years, China has finally created a ball-point pen core, is expected to completely replace imports

More than 3,000 enterprises, over 20 million people, with an annual output of more than 400 billion ball-point pen... China has become a well-deserved pen country, but behind a series of proud figures, it is the core technology and materials highly dependent on imports, Counterfeit products flooding the embarrassing situation, a large number of ball-point pen's "ball beads" also need to import.

China as the world's manufacturing power, why can not achieve a small part of the fully independent research and development and production? "Ballpoint pen asked,"also is the "Chinese manufacturing industry asked!"

But now things have changed！

Embarrassment: the core material is highly dependent on imports
Ningbo Beifa pen industry in the production line, each of 3 billion ball-point pen off the assembly line, the figure is amplified to the national 38 billion. As the world's largest pen-producing countries, behind the glorious figures, it is the core material highly dependent on the embarrassing situation of imports.

Ningbo Beifa Group Quality Manager Xu Jun Road, said: since I entered the pen industry the written stainless steel materials are coming from Japan, not only domestic and foreign materials the stainless steel pen material is also Japan's."

The tip is divided into the ball on the tip and the ball seat body. At present, the diameter of 0.5-1.0 mm of tungsten carbide beads in China not only to meet domestic production needs, but also a large number of exports. But only 2.3 mm in diameter ball seat, whether it is production machine or raw materials, have long mastered in Switzerland, Japan and other countries. China's annual production of 38 billion pen need to import ball-point pen steel more than 1,000 tons a year, paid 15 million US dollars of foreign exchange.

This is a head of the integrated production machine from Swiss company, production of a small ball-point pen needs more than 20 procedures. There are different height of the written steps and five guide ink trench, machining accuracy must reach one thousandth of a millimeter of magnitude.

in the pen point place, the thickness only 0.3-0.4 mm. High precision machining, stainless steel raw materials must with extremely high performance, it is necessary to easily cutting, processing can not crack, a small "pen tip" test of Chinese manufacturing.

After five years of uncounted failure, in the electron microscope, TISCO Group finally see the "additive" evenly distributed nib steel, the test success in 2016 September . Large-scale steel-making more than 10 times, the first batch of good cutting steel finally baked. The diameter of 2.3 mm stainless steel wire, can be proud to write on the "Made in China" sign.