Development Evaluation And Strategy Research Of High-tech Ceramics Industry
(1) Japan:
Japan is in a leading position in the field of high toughness ceramics and electronic ceramics. Currently, the global market for high-tech ceramic components is dominated by Japanese manufacturers. For all kinds of high-tech ceramic products, Japan occupies most of the market. It is also in a leading position in research and development fields such as new high-tech ceramic batteries.
Experiments have been conducted in Japan to test powerful ceramic batteries, replacing acidic electrolytes with solid ceramics. Compared with traditional batteries, it is 2/3 lighter and less polluting, and is especially suitable for the automotive and aviation industries.
On the basis of developing high-tech ceramics and precision ceramic elements, Japan has accumulated some special ceramic production methods through the research and development of ceramic knives, ceramic scales, ceramic heaters, artificial ceramic binders and other heating elements as well as daily products. For example, Kyocera's global business involves raw materials, parts, equipment, machinery, as well as services, networks and other fields.
Kyocera started out as a manufacturer of technical ceramics. Today, most of Kyocera's products are related to telecommunications, manufacturing downstream products related to high-performance ceramic materials, including wireless handsets and networking equipment, semiconductor components, RF and microwave product suites, passive electronic components, crystal oscillators, and connectivity devices, optoelectronic products used in optoelectronic communication networks. NGK SPARK PLUG mainly produces ceramic spark plugs for automobile engine motors, high-quality ceramics, including wear-resistant parts, ultrasonic transducers and sensors, semiconductor manufacturing equipment products, electrical equipment products and other ceramic products, etc., and has been committed to developing products with excellent environmental efficiency. product.
From the perspective of the development and production of structural ceramic products, Toshiba is in a leading position. The sensitive components in its semiconductor production mainly use materials such as alumina, silicon nitride, zirconia, and silicon carbide.
(2) United States:
The United States is a leader in structural ceramics. In the United States, the volume of structural ceramics has the fastest growth rate, with an annual increase of about 15%. Among them, medical equipment, automobiles, aircraft, nuclear engineering, aerospace technology, medical equipment, mechanical power and other fields are currently widely distributed fields of structural ceramics in the United States. Moreover, the high temperature ceramics made in the United States have a working temperature of up to 1300 ° C, and their working strength is more than 6 times that of ordinary high temperature metals.
In order to meet the needs of the development of space technology, NASA has carried out major research and development projects in the fields of research, application and processing of structural ceramics.
Due to its excellent high temperature performance, reliability and other unique properties, it will become the first choice for economical and practical materials, and is widely used in energy conservation and environmental protection, new generation information technology, biomedicine, high-end device production and other fields, as well as strategic emerging industries such as new energy vehicles. usage of. Customers can choose cost-effective high-quality ceramic products according to different application requirements. Among them, new ceramic materials such as environmentally friendly ceramics, nuclear energy ceramics, transparent ceramics, wave-transmitting ceramics, and nano-ceramics have made great progress.
(3) European Union:
The EU has obvious advantages in the field of functional ceramics. The main research is new material technology in the field of power generation equipment, such as exhaust pipe lining, turbocharger rotor structure, ceramic piston, gas turbine rotor, etc.
The sixth EU framework plan proposes to support a wide range of research projects in the field of high-tech ceramics, some of which focus on advanced preparation technologies for functional ceramics and their composites. In particular, Britain, France and Germany have strengthened the research on composite ceramic materials and functional ceramic preparation technology for aerospace. Among them, the pulsed current junction equipment developed in Germany can complete the task of continuous sintering of large-scale high-temperature resistant ceramics. At the same time, in the implementation of automation and mechanization, the European building sanitary ceramics industry has considerable technical strength and development capabilities in the production of pipes and glazes.
