Made in China 2025 brings industry opportunities, how do laser processing equipment companies lay out?

Manufacturing is the mainstay of the national economy, and "Made in China" has long become a global business card. In the last century, when people mentioned manufacturing, they often thought of words such as intensive, low-end, and cheap. With the development of global intelligent manufacturing, manufacturing is no longer just a simple and intensive industry, it has developed into a high-tech endorsement. Word, and "Made in China 2025" came into being under such a situation. In the future, people will have to give a thumbs up when they talk about Made in China.

Laser technology is indispensable for Chinese manufacturing to go global. In recent years, laser processing equipment has been used more and more widely in industry, and some industries have even replaced manual and mechanical processing. According to relevant statistics, the global market size of laser processing has maintained rapid growth in the past two years. By 2017, the market size reached 11.33 billion U.S. dollars, a year-on-year increase of 8.9%. The driving force for the growth of the laser market in 2017 mainly comes from the continuous release of laser demand in the fields of material processing and communications.

Under the situation of global high-tech manufacturing, laser processing equipment companies are also ushering in greater opportunities. For industries that require very precise processing such as brittle materials, new energy vehicles and power batteries, and 3D printing, laser processing will play an important role. An indispensable role.

Under the favorable situation of emerging industries and manufacturing upgrades, how should laser processing equipment companies lay out so as to occupy a place in the new market? The OFweek laser network editor believes that if the following three points are done well, the enterprise will benefit in all aspects.

1. New technology research and development, leading the development of the industry

High-power fiber laser technology is also a hot laser technology direction in recent years, and it has great applications in industrial manufacturing, medical treatment, energy exploration and other fields. Fiber laser has the advantages of good beam quality, high efficiency, and good heat dissipation. It represents the development direction of high-power and high-brightness lasers.

The rapid growth of industrial lasers in 2017 was mainly due to the substantial growth of fiber lasers. Fiber laser technology continues to make breakthroughs, the downstream demand of the industry is growing steadily, and the market size of the fiber laser industry exceeds 2 billion US dollars. Fiber lasers have brought technological changes in laser cutting. Nowadays, the demand for fiber lasers is increasing, and the application fields are gradually penetrating into basic fields such as automobiles, ships, and aerospace. my country is an important global industrial laser market. Many domestic laser companies are also increasing the research and development of fiber laser technology. For example, Shenzhen Chuangxin Laser and Wuhan Ruike Laser are actively increasing the research and development of fiber laser technology. They are very optimistic about the future market. . Recently, Raycus Laser is also actively seeking to go public, one of which aims to increase investment in high-power laser technology.

Since most of the domestic high-power fiber lasers currently rely on imports, domestic fiber laser companies need to increase technological investment to take the initiative in the future market. This is also their opportunity. The market penetration rate of fiber lasers produced by Raycus Laser has increased, and the number of customers has increased year by year.

2. Strengthen the industrial layout and enhance the influence of the industry

For laser equipment companies, how to increase their influence in the industry is something that must be faced. Strengthening the industrial layout is a good choice. Han's Laser is very optimistic about the new energy automobile industry, and has recently begun to move upstream in lithium battery manufacturing, especially in the intelligent manufacturing of lithium battery equipment, adopting acquisitions to complete the industrial layout of equipment manufacturing.

In addition to Han's Laser, HG Laser is also actively deploying new energy vehicle processing. It is reported that in April this year, HG Laser New Energy Equipment Division was inaugurated and established in Shenzhen to capture emerging markets.

3. Strengthen cooperation with enterprises in new industries and expand product lines

3D printing is a rapid prototyping technology that can be used in many industries. Laser equipment and 3D printing companies can also expand their product lines. With the decline in the prices of 3D printing materials and printing equipment, the 3D printing market is expected to expand rapidly. As an important processing method, laser technology has a very promising future when the market matures.

It is reported that the "Laser 3D Printing Technology" completed by Wuhan National Laboratory of Optoelectronics (under preparation) has passed the Achievement Appraisal of Hubei Provincial Department of Science and Technology. This set of equipment is currently the world’s most efficient and largest high-precision metal parts laser 3D printing equipment. The equipment uses 4 lasers to scan at the same time, which solves the technical problems of aerospace complex precision metal parts in the material structure function integration and weight reduction, and realizes the high-precision forming of complex metal parts, improves the forming efficiency, and shortens the equipment development cycle.

For enterprises, it is both an opportunity and a challenge

For the laser industry chain, laser processing equipment can be described as the core of the industry. Whether it is upstream devices, numerical control, materials, etc., or downstream application manufacturers, it is these equipment companies that can reflect the strength of laser high-end manufacturing. For enterprises, in addition to core technologies, conforming to the mainstream market is also the secret of growth. The huge demand brought by these emerging industries has brought them opportunities but also challenges.