Abstract
The current situations of thermal spraying materials in China are described in this paper. The thermal spraying technology in China has a great progress over tens of years. More than one hundred varieties of material products are serving in thermal spraying industry now, which are grouped into three kinds: powders, wires and rods. And technologies for producing alloy or ceramic or composite powders, alloy or cored wires, and oxide ceramic rods are applied to large-scale production. Many research and development works on advanced materials for thermal spraying are carrying out in recent years. They show that the general tendencies of thermal spraying materials in China are composite or low-impurity component, ultrafine or nanosized microstructure, high properties, as well as specialized and systematized applications. Thermal spraying materials have great prospects in China.
