The market space for zirconium boride is vast and my country’s high-end demand is highly dependent on imports.

Zirconium boride is an inorganic substance with the molecular formula ZrB2. Zirconium boride appears as gray hard crystals with uniform particle size, high purity, high melting point, high thermal conductivity and high hardness. It is used in metal manufacturing, aerospace, petrochemicals, electronics and electrical, electrode materials, cutting tools and other fields. widely. According to different structures, zirconium boride can be divided into zirconium triboride, zirconium diboride and zirconium monoboride.

The preparation methods of zirconium boride include vapor deposition method, direct reaction method of metallic zirconium and boron, carbon reduction method, boron carbide method, etc. Carbon reduction method and boron carbide method are widely used in the industrial production process of zirconium boride. The carbon reduction method refers to mixing boron oxide, zirconia, activated carbon, boron carbide and other raw materials in a vacuum environment, and then adding a reducing agent to perform a reduction reaction to finally obtain the finished product; the boron carbide method refers to using boron carbide as the core raw material, and then Titanium dioxide is added and the two react under certain temperature conditions to produce zirconium boride.

Zirconium diboride is the mainstream product of zirconium boride. It has excellent comprehensive properties and is widely used in the fields of refractory materials, composite materials, nuclear control materials, and electrode materials. Benefiting from the increasingly strong downstream demand, the development space of zirconium diboride industry continues to expand. The global zirconium diboride market size will reach US$310 million in 2022, a year-on-year growth of 5.3%. In the future, as the zirconium diboride market continues to grow, the prosperity of the zirconium boride industry will further increase.

According to the “2023-2028 Zirconium Boride Industry Market In-depth Research and Investment Prospect Forecast Analysis Report released by the Industrial Research Center, Zirconium boride is widely used in metal manufacturing, aerospace, petrochemical, electronic and electrical, electrode materials and cutting tools and other fields. In the field of metal manufacturing, zirconium boride can be used as a steel additive, and carbon steel, alloy steel and high-speed steel are its end products; in the aerospace field, zirconium boride is used as a heat insulation material and can be used to manufacture aircraft parts; in In the field of cutting tools, zirconium boride has extremely high hardness and can be used to make high-speed cutting tools. As the development of downstream industries accelerates, my country’s zirconium boride market space will further expand.

The main manufacturers of zirconium boride in my country include Jinzhou Haixin Metal Materials Co., Ltd., Dandong Chemical Industry Research Institute Co., Ltd., Shanghai Chaowei Nano Technology Co., Ltd., Tianyuan Aviation Materials Technology Co., Ltd., etc. At present, my country’s high-end zirconium boride is highly dependent on imports, and Germany is my country’s main importing country.

Industry analysts said that zirconium boride, as a boride ceramic, is widely used in many fields and is gradually being released as downstream demand , its industry development trend will continue to improve. Compared with overseas developed countries, my country’s zirconium boride industry started late, and high-end demand mainly relies on imports. In the future, with technological progress, the localization process of my country’s high-end zirconium boride market will accelerate.