Can China-Made Cold Worked Mold Steels Outperform Imports?
Can China-Made Cold Worked Mold Steels Outperform Imports? In the last decade, Chinese metallurgy has quietly moved from “good-enough” to global benchmark. Cold-worked mold steels—once the preserve of European and Japanese mills—are now being engineered, produced and shipped from China at scale. Buyers who still equate “imported” with “superior” risk paying 25-50 % more for