Development of high-end equipment manufacturing boosts the "Asian era" of the machine tool industry

A few days ago, Hangzhou held the city's urban and rural overall industrial development and the transformation and upgrading of the massive economy to modern industrial clusters. At the video-phone conference, Hangzhou introduced a package implementation plan to promote the integration of urban and rural development: In the modern industry, efforts will be made to develop five counties and cities. Strategic emerging industries. Linan will focus on the development of large-scale air separation equipment, large and medium-sized chemical equipment, and vigorously develop CNC machine tools and power generation equipment.

Wang Zhengqing, chief executive of the Taiwan Machine Tool Development Foundation, believes that the global machine tool production base can be divided into three major regions: the European Union, Asia, and the Americas. The European Union takes the European Machine Tool Association as the most representative organization. According to the 2007 production and sales statistics of the organization, the European Union’s output value accounts for 43% of the global output value. The Asian machine tool output ranks first in the world, accounting for 48% of the world. Major producers include Japan, China, and South Korea. America mainly refers to North America, the United States, Canada, Mexico and South America, Brazil, Argentina, etc., which together account for 9% of the global total output value. In addition, Eastern Europe also has a machine tool industry. However, after the disintegration of Eastern Europe, the machine tool output value is very low. Even if the machine tool output value of other regions is added, it only accounts for 1% of global output value.

The three major production bases are also the three major consumer markets. At present, Europe is still the world's major consumer market. In 2007, its consumption amounted to US$23 billion, accounting for 34% of global consumption. The main reason was that European countries had high rates of mutual purchases. In other words, EU members had already created regions within their internal procurement. The complementary effects of sex. Consumption in Asia and Oceania has already topped the list. In 2007, consumption reached 33 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 49% of global spending. This reflects the very frequent trade in Asian machine tools. The reason is that the level of development of machine tools in Asian countries is uneven. The Americas is the third largest consumer market. In 2007, consumption reached 10.8 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 16% of global consumption. The reason is that the United States and Canada are industrialized advanced countries, while Central and South America are mostly newly developing industrialized countries. Therefore, their demand is still dominated by North America. Coupled with the limited production value in the Americas, they need to import a large number of machine tools from Europe and Asia. , America has become the world's second largest import market.

According to Luo Baihui, executive secretary general of the International Die & Metals and Plastics Industry Suppliers Association, the most representative countries for machine tool production and sales in the world are mainly located in Western Europe, East Asia and North America. The global machine tool output value reached approximately 71 billion U.S. dollars in 2007. In terms of import and export value, the export value in 2007 was 39 billion U.S. dollars and the import value was 36 billion U.S. dollars. The top ten gross production amounts to 63 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 89% of the world's total production and sales; the top ten exporting countries have a total export value of 33.7 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 86% of the world's total export value; the top ten importing countries have a total import value of 26.3 billion U.S. dollars, It accounted for 73% of the total global export volume; the total consumption of the top ten consumer countries was 54.7 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 82% of the total global consumption.

The global metal processing machine tool industry has generally gone out of recession. In 2010, the production value of 28 major machine tool producing countries and regions in the world reached 66.3 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 21% from the 54.7 billion U.S. dollars in 2009. In the process of recovery of the world machine tool industry, China plays a leading role. According to Luo Baihui, executive director general of the International Die and Hardware & Plastic Industry Suppliers Association, China has become the world's largest machine tool consumer and importer country for many years, and since 2009, it has become the world's largest producer. In 2010, the output value of China's machine tools was 20.9 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 35% year-on-year, accounting for 31% of the world's 28 major machine tool producing countries and regions with a total output value of 66.3 billion U.S. dollars.

China: The world’s first consumer machine tool factory was early staged as a state-owned enterprise. It is too large. The top ten companies have more than 10,000 employees, but only 60% of production-related personnel are involved in heavy production. The efficiency is not easy to increase, mainly in the growth mode of domestic demand, and the export ratio is low, only accounting for 15% to 20% of the total production value. According to Luo Baihui, executive director general of the International Die & Metals and Plastics Industry Suppliers Association, Chinese machine tools have experienced the early German model, followed closely with the Eastern European Group, and most of their product designs are of Eastern European style. The structural design is biased towards heavy pressure. In recent years, the domestic machine tool design gradually learns the design concepts of Japan and the United States, and takes the automobile, mold, electronics and other industries as the main customers. In addition, the use of technical cooperation or the introduction of foreign investment to attract Japanese and Taiwanese companies to set up factories in the mainland, since the second half of 1999, the industry situation has gradually improved, after 2000, the domestic machine tool companies vigorously reform, redundant redundant, some companies to reduce the six Become the above person. The recent rise of private enterprises is very streamlined, often with only a few hundred people, and the output value has increased year by year. Great progress has been made in the past five years. At the same time, due to strong domestic demand, China's machine tool imports and consumption rank first in the world.

According to expert statistics, at present, the domestic automobile industry accounts for 70% of the consumption of the machine tool industry, but such a huge market is accounted for nearly 80% of imported machine tools. However, this also shows from the side that the future of China's machine tool industry has a large market share.

According to the “High-end CNC Machine Tools and Basic Manufacturing Equipment” special plan, by 2020, about 80% of the high-end CNC machine tools and basic manufacturing equipment required for aerospace, shipbuilding, automobile, and power generation equipment manufacturing will be based in China; in addition to major special projects that have been launched. In addition to setting clear goals for the production of high-end CNC machine tools, high-end CNC machine tools have also been incorporated into the key projects of the “12th Five-Year Plan” for high-end equipment manufacturing. In the future, the development space of China's machine tool industry is very broad.

At the same time, Li Jingming, deputy secretary-general of the China Machine Tool & Tooling Industry Association, learned that energy, rail transportation, high-speed railways, and defense and military industries in the downstream industries will carry out large-scale and in-depth periods during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period and even longer periods. Structural adjustment.

Experts predict that in the context of economic development, strong support of national policies, and revitalization of upstream and downstream industries, the robust demand for the machine tool industry will maintain rapid growth, but the demand for high-end CNC machine tools will continue to rise, and the demand for medium and low-end machine tool products will increase. It will continue to decline.