What is the development status of laser cutting industry?

The products of China's laser processing industry mainly include various laser marking machines, welding machines, cutting machines, dicing machines, engraving machines, heat treatment machines, three-dimensional molding machines and texturing machines, which occupy a large market share in China. Punch machines in the international market have been gradually replaced by lasers, while there are punch machines and laser cutting machines in China. However, with the continuous application of laser technology in manufacturing industry, the laser cutting machine will gradually replace the punch, so it is considered that the market space of laser cutting equipment is very large.

In the laser processing equipment market, laser cutting is the most important application technology, which has been widely used in shipbuilding, automobile, locomotive and rolling stock manufacturing, aviation, chemical industry, light industry, electrical appliances and electronics, petroleum metallurgy and other industrial sectors. Take Japan as an example: 1985, the annual sales volume of new punching machines in Japan was about 900, while the sales volume of laser cutting machines was only 100, but in 2005, the sales volume soared to 950, while the annual sales volume of punching machines dropped to about 500.

Chart 1: application field of high power laser cutting technology

Source: Organized by Prospective Industry Research Institute.

According to the data of "Analysis Report on Market Foresight and Investment Strategic Planning of China's Laser Industry in 20 15-2020" issued by Forward-looking Industry Research Institute, the scale of China's laser cutting equipment maintained steady growth in 2008-20 14. In 2008, the market size of China's laser cutting equipment was only 507 million yuan, and the growth rate in 20 12 years exceeded 100%. In 20 14 years, the market size of China's laser cutting equipment was123.5 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth rate of 8%.

Chart 2: Trend chart of China's laser cutting equipment market scale in 2007-2014 (unit: 100 million yuan,%)

Source: Organized by Prospective Industry Research Institute.

According to statistics, by 2009, the total number of high-power laser cutting equipment in the world was about 35,000, and it may be higher now. However, the current stock in China is estimated at 2,500-3,000 units. Expectations

At the end of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan, the market demand of high-power CNC laser cutting machines in China will reach more than 1 10,000 sets, and the market scale will exceed10.50 billion according to the price of each set. For China's current manufacturing equivalent, the popularity of high-power cutting equipment will be greatly improved in the future.

Combined with the growth of China's laser cutting equipment market scale in recent years and the demand prospect of China's laser cutting equipment, Forward-looking Industry Research Institute predicts that China's laser cutting equipment market scale will still maintain a steady growth trend. It is estimated that by 2020, the market scale of China's laser cutting equipment will reach 654.38+0.9 billion yuan.

Because the laser cutting process is limited by the laser power and intensity, most modern laser cutting machines need to be equipped with lasers that can provide beam parameters close to the technical optimum. High power laser technology represents the highest level of laser application technology. However, compared with developed countries in Europe and America, there is a big gap in the number of high-power laser cutting equipment in China. It can be predicted that the demand for high-end high-power CNC laser cutting machine with high cutting speed, high precision and large cutting width will be greatly improved in the future.