Let's take a look at the ballpoint pen head and ink, which requires technology. The pen head is divided into the ball on the nib and the ball seat. Have these two things been bothering us for a long time? Actually, it's not. We can deal with the ball part. The 0.5- 1.0mm tungsten carbide ball is completely produced by China itself, with little technical difficulty. Because it is a kind of ball commonly used at home and abroad, we can sell it to other countries after production. The key is the tee with a diameter of only 2.3 mm We have nothing for a long time, whether it is production equipment or raw materials, and we can only rely on imports from Switzerland, Japan and other countries. The precision of domestic stainless steel wire rod is too low to be used. Only Japanese free-cutting stainless steel wire rod is good and popular. Ink that can be used with this steel will naturally be imported from other countries.
Don't look at a ballpoint pen, it takes more than twenty processes. Only Germany and Japan can develop instruments with high progressive density, because there are different steps and five ink guide grooves in the pen head, and the machining accuracy can be at least one thousandth of a millimeter. Not only that, the place where high technology is needed is the front end of the pen, the thickness is only 0.3-0.4 mm, and the performance requirements of stainless steel raw materials are more accurate. On the one hand, they should be easy to cut and can't crack during processing, and they also require extremely high processing accuracy.
Another steel factory produces enough steel in one day to make pens for one year. For steel mills, how can there be motivation to engage in the research and development of pen beads without profit? What China needs is economic development. Investing in this technology is not cost-effective.
The manufacture of ballpoint pen tips requires complicated instruments and equipment. None of these domestic equipment can meet the requirements, and the profit margin of ballpoint pen tip is small. Few domestic enterprises are willing to invest in research and development, and most of them rely on imports. China Taigang Group has been able to produce ballpoint pen tips, breaking the foreign monopoly. Not surprisingly, Japan was able to develop them before. A long time ago, Japan and Germany went deep into sophisticated technology, one was Swiss, the other was China, and the United States didn't.