About the abrasive tool market

Today, we would like to update the data, review the trends that have emerged over the past difficult year, and assess the newly opened prospects in the abrasive tools market. So, meet the latest review of 2021!

The abrasive tool is used for grinding, trimming and grinding hard metals. It can be classified into the following types:

Grinding wheel-presented in the form of a solid body of rotation, intended for installation on sandpaper machines. It is used to remove excess body material (metal, stone).
Cutting wheel - for cutting products made of ceramics, stone, metal and other hard materials. It can be made both from pressed abrasive with glue, and from steel billets coated with a thin coating of solid minerals.
Bars - abrasive and metal-abrasive of different sizes and profiles for honing, lapping, superfinishing.
Tapes and sandpaper - abrasive materials applied to the fabric base on one or two sides.
Pastes are synthetic viscous substances that contain fine abrasive particles of high and moderate hardness. They are used for wiping and mirror polishing.
Free grain is an abrasive dust used for waterjet, ultrasonic, and sandblasting.
Steel wool-used for grinding and polishing wood and metal. It is often used together with grinding pastes.
Brushes - with metal or synthetic bristles, are used to remove scale, rust, paint, etc. from the surface, as well as for pickling, patinating, sanding.
Various and numerous files, files, rasps.

Due to the types and variety of applications, abrasive tools are used in almost all areas of production, with the main consumers being metalworking, woodworking, mechanical engineering and the construction industry.

The global volume of the abrasive tool market in 2018 was estimated at $ 42.3 billion, while by 2023 it was projected to increase to $ 56.6 billion. In 2020, both the current volume and the growth prospects of the global market were adjusted. Thus, in 2020, the volume amounted to $ 37.3 billion. The global market showed a decrease of 3% in 2020 compared to the average annual growth in 2017-2019. The market is projected to grow from $ 39.3 billion in 2021 to $ 58.3 billion in 2028, with an average annual growth rate of 5.8% over the period 2021-2028. This sudden increase is due to the demand and growth of the abrasive tool market itself, which is returning to its normal levels after the end of the pandemic.

Major global manufacturers:

Saint Gobain Abrasives SaintGobainAbrasives, 3M, Cutop, Ring, ROXELPRO, GermaFlex, PLEXPART, Abraflex, Norton, Makita, Bosch, DeWalt, Tyrolit, Pferd, Wurth, Mirka, VSM, Leco, Klingspor. The main importing countries of abrasive tools in the Russian Federation are China, Germany, Belarus, and Ukraine. They account for more than 50% of all imports of abrasive tools to Russia. At the same time, there is a wide range of prices-the most budget options from China are 10-20 times cheaper than German and Swiss.

However, in the Russian market, the most popular tool is still domestic production. There are several reasons for this - imported tools, due to the peculiarities of transportation, are often more expensive than their Russian counterparts, and the country also has a general policy of import substitution - new Government resolutions aimed at supporting domestic factories. And the manufacturers themselves are constantly working to improve the quality of the manufactured tools and services - and as a result, its competitiveness is growing.

Traditionally, we will consider them and try to estimate the scale of the key Russian manufacturers of abrasive tools by gross profit for 2020 / / 2019 (in Russian rubles):

Volzhsky Abrasive Plant - 4.07 billion rubles / / 3.95 billion rubles, i.e. +3%.
Luzhsky Abrasive Plant - 2.2 billion rubles / / 1.8 billion rubles, i.e. +22%.
Technokeramika - -43 million ₽ / / 85 million ₽ - in 2020, a loss was made, although until 2017 they showed about half a billion in net profit. The cost price and management expenses increased.
Karabash plant of abrasive materials - 298.1 million rubles / / 257.9 million rubles, i.e. +15%.
Belgorod Abrasive Plant (BAZ) - 248.2 million rubles / / 229.4 million rubles, i.e. +8%.
St. Petersburg Abrasive Plant Ilyich - 132 million rubles / / 148.8 million rubles, i.e. -11%.
NPK Abrasives and grinding - 97.6 million rubles // 83.8 million rubles, i.e. +16%.
Kosulinsky abrasive Plant - 56.8 million rubles // 70.3 million rubles, i.e. -19%.
ISMA - 38.7 million ₽ / / 16.1 million ₽, i.e. +140%.
Krasnogorsk Abrasive plant - 22.5 million rubles / / 17.9 million rubles, i.e. +25%.
Resolit abrasive plant - 9.2 million rubles / / 15 million rubles, i.e. -39%.
Abrasive plant INF-Abrasive - 3 million ₽ / / 2.6 million ₽, i.e. +15%.
Factory of abrasive and refractory materials-shows 0.
Ryazan Tool Abrasive Plant-shows 0.
Abrasive (Chelyabinsk) - shows 0.
Vulkanit Plant-shows 0.
Zlatoust abrasive plant shows losses.

Russian and foreign manufacturers of abrasive tools are represented at the Enex virtual exhibition.