Talking about Japanese Ceramic Industry

In 1616, the Koreans of naturalized Japan, Lee Sat-ping, discovered Arita in Japan and successfully baked blue-and-white porcelain, proclaimed the arrival of the era of the white porcelain, and the Japanese ceramics really thrive until the 1950s and 1644 China. As the Qing army entered the customs, the country was in chaos, the export of Chinese porcelain was stagnant, and the Japanese porcelains took the opportunity to become the darling of the market. Since 1658, Japan has become an important porcelain exporter for the Asian, Persian and European markets.

Today, Japan is still a world-renowned ceramics power. Japan's ceramic art is more developed and there are considerable professional ceramic artists. Japan's ceramics for daily use have a large market share in the mid-to-high end market. In addition, Japan has always been at the forefront of the world in the field of materials science, especially in the field of high-tech ceramic materials, which has a leading and prominent position. Generally speaking, Japan, Europe and the United States and even China have little difference in the level of ceramic materials research. However, in the new ceramic material industry, Japan has the absolute advantage in the world.

The Japanese ceramic industry has the following characteristics:

In respect of raw materials, due to the insufficient supply of domestic ceramic raw materials, the number of ceramic raw materials imported by Japanese ceramic companies from abroad has been increasing year by year. For example, plastic kaolin raw materials need to be imported from South Korea and New Zealand, and the import volume has reached over 50% of total imports. In addition, the amount of kaolin raw materials imported from Britain and China has increased year by year. With the import of raw materials, leading to increased product costs, forcing companies to produce high-value-added production articles reproduced in the Huaxia ceramic mesh products, improve product quality.

In the development and utilization of ceramic raw materials, Japan is no longer confined to satisfying the ordinary production of pottery and porcelain products in the past, but is emphasizing more to meet the use functions and uses of daily-use ceramics, such as enhancing the antibacterial properties of ceramic tableware, and emphasizing hygiene porcelain. The product's anti-fouling properties, water-saving effects, etc.; in the development of new products, they pay great attention to improving the standards of environmental protection and beneficial to human health effects, such as the planning and treatment of pollution caused by the dissolution of lead and cadmium in the glaze and pigment. For example, Japan’s Toho Corporation has combined Japan’s advantages in new materials and electronics with ceramics, and exerted its advantages in electronic technology and artificial intelligence. Its bathroom brand TOTO has become a top brand in the world’s sanitary ware.

2 Japanese porcelain has changed in shape, ornamentation, color, and function. It is not comparable to porcelain and porcelain used in daily-use porcelain. Based on its material science advantages, it has developed high-plasticity artificial clay and has reduced the difficulty of molding. In order to speed up design and development, Japan not only has already realized computerization, but is also implementing design materialization, that is, using computer-based CAD/CAM language and using new manufacturing technologies such as light modeling. 3 Japan's ceramics production process and technical equipment have basically completed automation and intelligent high-tech transformation, such as continuous automated raw material processing, high-strength magnetic iron removal process, isostatic pressure and water pressure forming process, automatic glazing, automatic drying and even full Automatically controlled firing techniques. With the exception of a few processes that are yet to be perfected, all parts that can be replaced by machinery for manual operations are fully automated.