Analysis on Development Competition of Remanufacturing Machine Tool Industry in 2011

China's remanufactured machine tools, especially heavy-duty machine tools, are mostly order-based. Because there is no unified product technology standard and market pricing principle, it is greatly affected by the user market. Some user units overemphasized the importance of cost and price ignoring the technical solutions and the strength of the manufacturers, which invisiblely boosted some remanufacturing enterprises to only pay attention to the immediate interests and were reluctant to increase investment in fixed assets such as plant and equipment, and were unwilling to hire outstanding technicians. Only by conquering the operating costs and occupying the market at a low price, the remanufacturing market of the machine tools is uneven and disorderly.

In the developed countries where the remanufacturing industry developed earlier, the remanufacturing of machine tools has been carried out for many years, and a relatively complete industrial chain has also been formed. However, the implementation time in our country is still relatively short, and most of them are the maintenance and reconstruction of a single large-heavy machine tool, lack of process specifications, and the market is also slightly confusing.

The road to industrialization As the only private enterprise in the current pilot unit for machine tool remanufacturing, Huazhong Automation has obtained 23 sets of remanufacturing orders for heavy-duty and super-heavy-duty machine tools from January to October this year. Sales of remanufactured products accounted for total sales. More than 60%.

“Huazhong Auto Control should be considered as one of the earliest companies engaged in machine tool remanufacturing in China. At present, the remanufacturing business basically covers imported or domestic heavy-duty, super-heavy-duty machine tools, machining centers and special equipment.” Zhang Junnan, general manager of Huazhong Automation, said, January 2010 The company officially became the first batch of mechanical and electrical product remanufacturing pilot units of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Currently, it specializes in the remanufacturing of machine tools and electro-hydraulic integrated machines, mainly for the remanufacturing of heavy-duty machine tools, super-heavy-duty machine tools, and the design and manufacture of special machines that meet the requirements of special processing technology.

Zhang Junnan told the old machine tools that there are generally more than 45% to 80% of the residual value, mainly due to the strong durability of the bed, columns, and bases. Remanufacturing these main parts requires the consumption of large amounts of steel and energy. If you retain the main body, repair or replace damaged parts, you can create equipment with the same quality and even better performance as the new equipment.

This is a general view of the participants at the symposium on the industrialization of China's machine tool remanufacturing held in Wuhan not long ago. The reason is: First, in 2010 the machine tool industry completed industrial output value of nearly 550 billion yuan, of which metal processing machine tool output value of 20.9 billion US dollars, accounting for about one third of the world. From January to September 2011, the total value of industrial output of the machine tool industry was 472.17 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 33.5%. After more than 10 years of rapid development, the machine tool market has a large amount of inventory. Some experts predict that the total number of old machine tools that have served in China for more than 10 years, that is, the number of old machine tools that can be used for remanufacturing may exceed 2 million units.

It is learned that there are currently three main categories of machine tool remanufacturing in China: professional machine tool remanufacturing companies, such as Wuhan Huazhong Automation Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Huazhong Automation), which is included in the pilot remanufacturing enterprise of machine tools by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; Such as Chongqing Machine Tool Group and Wuhan Heavy Machine Tool Group; CNC system manufacturing companies, such as Siemens Automation Factory, Guangzhou CNC Equipment Co., Ltd. and so on. These three types of companies constitute the main body of the current domestic machine tool remanufacturing.