Global Superhard Materials Market by Manufacturers, Regions, Type and Application, Forecast to 2022

A superhard material is a material with a hardness value exceeding 40 gigapascals (GPa) when measured by the Vickers hardness test. They are highly incompressible solids with high electron density and high bond covalency. As a result of their unique properties, these materials are of great interest in many industrial areas including, but not limited to, abrasives, polishing and cutting tools and wear-resistant and protective coatings.

Diamond is the hardest known material to date, with a Vickers hardness in the range of 70–150 GPa. Diamond demonstrates both high thermal conductivity and electrically insulating properties and much attention has been put into finding practical applications of this material. However, diamond has several limitations for mass industrial application, including its high cost and oxidation at temperatures above 800 °C. In addition, diamond dissolves in iron and forms iron carbides at high temperatures and therefore is inefficient in cutting ferrous materials including steel. Therefore, recent research of superhard materials has been focusing on compounds which would be thermally and chemically more stable than pure diamond.

Superhard materials can be generally classified into two categories: intrinsic compounds and extrinsic compounds. The intrinsic group includes diamond, cubic boron nitride (c-BN), carbon nitrides and ternary compounds such as B-N-C, which possess an innate hardness. Conversely, extrinsic materials are those that have superhardness and other mechanical properties that are determined by their microstructure rather than composition. An example of extrinsic superhard material is nanocrystalline diamond known as aggregated diamond nanorods.

Scope of the Report:
This report focuses on the Superhard Materials in Global market, especially in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, South America, Middle East and Africa. This report categorizes the market based on manufacturers, regions, type and application.
Market Segment by Manufacturers, this report covers
?Sandvik
?Element Six
?Sumitomo Electric
?ILJIN
?Zhongnan Diamond
?Henan Huanghe Whirlwind
?SF Diamond
?Zhengzhou Sino-Crystal Diamond
?FUNIK
Market Segment by Regions, regional analysis covers
?North America (United States, Canada and Mexico)
?Europe (Germany, France, UK, Russia and Italy)
?Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, Korea, India and Southeast Asia)
?South America (Brazil, Argentina, Columbia)
?Middle East and Africa (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa)
Market Segment by Type, covers
?Micron Diamond
?PCD
?CBN
?PCBN
Market Segment by Applications, can be divided into
?Stone and Construction
?Abrasives Category
?Composite Polycrystalline Tool
?Other
There are 15 Chapters to deeply display the global Superhard Materials market.

Chapter 1, to describe Superhard Materials Introduction, product scope, market overview, market opportunities, market risk, market driving force;

Chapter 2, to analyze the top manufacturers of Superhard Materials, with sales, revenue, and price of Superhard Materials, in 2016 and 2017;

Chapter 3, to display the competitive situation among the top manufacturers, with sales, revenue and market share in 2016 and 2017;

Chapter 4, to show the global market by regions, with sales, revenue and market share of Superhard Materials, for each region, from 2012 to 2017;

Chapter 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, to analyze the key regions, with sales, revenue and market share by key countries in these regions;

Chapter 10 and 11, to show the market by type and application, with sales market share and growth rate by type, application, from 2012 to 2017;

Chapter 12, Superhard Materials market forecast, by regions, type and application, with sales and revenue, from 2017 to 2022;

Chapter 13, 14 and 15, to describe Superhard Materials sales channel, distributors, traders, dealers, Research Findings and Conclusion, appendix and data source.

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