Laser applied to material processing, known as the manufacturing technology revolution. According to the Chinese Optical Society data, China's laser processing industry is developing rapidly, the total output value has increased from 1.6 billion yuan in 1999 to 1.2 billion yuan in 2003. But from the overall strength, China's high-power laser cutting technology and the application of complete sets of equipment is still in the early stages, the United States put into use 25,000 sets of laser cutting machine, while China has only 600 sets.
Huazhong University of Science and Technology laser research expert Zhu Xiao said: "did not master the core technology, resulting in high procurement costs, is China's high-grade lasers, laser complete sets of equipment market for a long time by the occupation of foreign products is the main reason." He said, for example, such as laser cutting equipment, although in the past the Chinese production of each selling price of only 1.7 million yuan, far lower than the price of imports of 700,000 U.S. dollars, but the cutting performance can not meet the needs of high-level processing, so most of China's laser cutting equipment are imports.
The second generation of large-scale laser cutting machine manufactured by Wuhan Huagong is being manufactured in large quantities compared to the first generation of localized products, cutting speed, cutting quality and safety and stability of performance have been greatly improved. In addition, the third generation of large-scale laser cutting machine product development work is proceeding smoothly, the prototype will be introduced in early 2005.
Zhu Xiao said, since the late 1990s to the present, China's laser processing equipment, process technology and manufacturing level has made a major breakthrough, the key optical devices to achieve localization, CNC technology has also improved significantly, coupled with the introduction of absorption of advanced technology from overseas, China-made cutting-edge laser processing equipment in terms of quality, functionality, stability, and other aspects of the gap between the internationally renowned brands has gradually narrowed.
Survey statistics show that China has more than 200 laser-related enterprises, mainly in Hubei, Beijing, Jiangsu, Shanghai and Guangdong (including Shenzhen, Zhuhai SAR) and other economically developed provinces and cities, these areas account for about 90% of the total annual sales of the national laser products market. Has basically formed to the above provinces and cities as the main body of Central China, the Bohai Sea, the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, the four major laser industry cluster. With the continuous intensification of competition in the laser processing equipment industry, large-scale inter-enterprise mergers and acquisitions and integration and capital action is increasingly frequent, the domestic outstanding laser processing equipment enterprises are increasingly emphasizing the study of the industry market.
The laser processing equipment manufacturing industry market tracking collection of first-hand market data, the use of international advanced scientific analysis model, comprehensive and accurate for you from the overall height of the industry to structure the analysis system. The report mainly analyzes the production and development of China's laser processing equipment industry; the current market environment and enterprise competitiveness of the laser processing equipment industry; the development of the laser processing equipment industry and the import and export market; the competitive landscape of the laser processing equipment industry, competition trends; the development of the laser processing equipment industry segments market; laser welding patent technology analysis; the laser processing equipment market, the development trend of the leading companies operating The development trend and outlook of the laser processing equipment industry. At the same time, supported by the whole industry 5 years comprehensive and detailed first-hand continuity of market data, so that you comprehensively and accurately grasp the whole industry's market trends and development trends.
In the past ten years, with the industrial laser application market in the expanding, laser processing field also continues to open up, from the traditional watch, battery, clothing buttons and other light industry to the machinery manufacturing, automobile manufacturing, aviation, power and energy, as well as medical and dental instrumentation and equipment manufacturing applications such as the expansion of the field, will effectively stimulate the demand for laser processing equipment.
In 2011, global sales of laser industrial processing equipment received strong double-digit growth. According to the Industrial Laser Solutions (ILS), global laser system sales revenue of $7.060 billion in 2011, an increase of 16% year-on-year, of which, laser sales revenue of $1.956 billion, an increase of 18% year-on-year.
Lasers have been widely used in industrial production, communications, information processing, health care, military, culture and education, as well as scientific research. According to statistics, from high-end fiber optics to common barcode scanners, the market value of laser-related products and services is worth trillions of dollars. China's laser products are mainly used in industrial processing, occupying more than 40% of the market space.
Laser processing has entered or is entering various industrial fields.
In 2011, the growth of laser applications in various fields slowed down year-on-year, but the entertainment and display market has become a new growth point for the industry, driven by smartphones, tablet PCs, 3D TVs, touchscreens, LEDs and TFT LCDs.
Between 2005 and 2011, China's laser processing equipment growth faster, the average annual growth rate of more than 20%, much higher than the world's average annual growth rate of laser processing equipment. 2008, after the adjustment of the structure, stimulate domestic demand and other measures to stimulate, China's laser in the railroad locomotive, engineering machinery, military, new energy and other industries to obtain substantial growth in applications.
In 2009, China's laser processing equipment industry scale reached 4.6 billion yuan in 2010 exceeded 5.5 billion yuan in 2011, about 6 billion yuan, the laser processing equipment market shows a stable, high-speed growth trend. It is expected that during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, the average annual growth rate of the market size of China's laser processing equipment industry will be more than 20%, the market size is expected to exceed 13 billion yuan.
The development of laser processing equipment industry to promote the development and progress of science and technology, promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and accelerate the modernization of national defense technology plays a positive role.