Forged Steel Balls: Innovation and Application Summary As key wear-resistant media for ball mills, forged steel balls are manufactured via 700-1300℃ heating and forging. They feature smooth surfaces, high impact resistance, strong toughness, and low breakage rate, with wear resistance comparable to high-chromium cast balls at a lower cost, widely used in mining and cement industries. Made of low-carbon alloy steel or high manganese steel, they are favored by mining giants like Rio Tinto and BHP. China, a major steel ball consumer, boosts production capacity and performance through intelligent forging equipment, promoting global exports and demonstrating "Made in China" competitiveness

Forged steel balls are wear-resistant grinding media formed by carbon steel or alloy steel through forging processes and are widely used in ball mills in fields such as mining and metallurgy. Their production process includes steel bar cutting, medium-frequency heating, air hammer forging, and quenching and tempering treatment, ensuring a surface hardness of 58-65 HRC, good toughness in the core, and a breakage rate of less than 0.5%. Compared to cast steel balls, forged steel balls have higher density and impact resistance, a lifespan that is 2-5 times longer, and a lower price. Currently, domestic enterprises enhance efficiency through automated production lines, and their products are exported to regions such as Europe, America, and Southeast Asia, with an annual growth rate of over 12%. In the future, new material research and intelligent production will drive further industry upgrading.

Intelligent Manufacturing Upgrades To promote high-quality industrial development, Ningyang County leads with the digital economy and vigorously promotes the digital transformation of the steel ball industry. A local investment of 15 million yuan has been made to build the "Steel Ball Industry Brain," using technologies such as big data, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things to construct three major systems: digital empowerment, intelligent operation, and industrial ecology, achieving rapid order response and efficient production organization. At the same time, service providers such as CITIC Cloud Network and Inspur Industry have been introduced, launching the "Cloud Connected Steel Balls" digital economy headquarters project, creating a dedicated "Industrial Taobao," opening up raw material procurement and product sales channels, and helping enterprises "buy globally and sell globally." In addition, the region has built the first fully intelligent digital production line in China, and newly installed AGV intelligent logistics and WMS intelligent warehousing systems. This can save 6 million yuan in labor and handling costs annually.

Jinan Haoyang casting and forging B2 material forging steel ball through the national materials testing center certification - measured impact resistance life increased by 37

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Wear-resistant steel ball technology upgrade to promote industrial grinding innovation ** A mining machinery factory has significantly improved the production efficiency and quality of wear-resistant steel balls through automatic production line transformation (semi-automatic forging, double-ended rolls, etc.) and product innovation, and successfully expanded overseas markets. These breakthroughs solve the pain points such as single industry specifications and low efficiency, and promote the overall development of the industrial grinding field. In the future, technological progress will continue to enhance the application value of wear-resistant steel balls in mining, cement and other fields.