Heavy machine tool market: companies flock to who can lead the market

Analysis of Status Quo of Heavy Machine Tool Market

China is now in the stage of modernization and improvement of traditional production methods. Whether it is railways, power stations, shipbuilding, aerospace and other engineering construction, or the automobile, engineering machinery, and military industry, it requires a large number of high-end machine tools to support it. "This has provided fertile market demand for the growth of China's heavy machine tools. With the changes in market demand, domestic heavy machine tool companies have become fiercely competitive. The number of manufacturers has grown from a few to dozens, and the level of product technology has improved rapidly. The gap between products has gradually narrowed, and the development of China's heavy machine tool industry faces new opportunities and is highly valued by the world's peers.

First of all, since the 90s of last century, the famous foreign heavy machine tool manufacturers have changed their doors. The German heavy-duty machine tool manufacturing industry, once rated as the world leader, has been declining due to the long-term slump in the world machine tool market. Famous manufacturers such as Shishi, Kebao, and Keegan have no longer existed as independent market competition players, and the world’s heavy machine tool competitors are relatively Weakened.

Second, as China moves toward heavy chemical industry, the country's policy of revitalizing the equipment manufacturing industry will further stimulate market demand and become the world's largest machine tool consumer market, which will help accelerate the development of the machine tool industry.

Third, China is gradually integrating itself into the process of world economic integration. Famous foreign companies have come to invest and build factories in China. China has become the largest processing factory in the world. As a basic equipment industry, it should have a good development prospect.

Finally, domestic heavy machine tool product technology has matured, and the gap between advanced foreign technology levels is gradually narrowing, and most products can meet user needs. Domestic manufacturing capacity has entered the world's forefront, and the manufacturing capabilities of foreign heavy machine tool manufacturers are weakening.

In the past two years, under the background of the rapid development of China's machine tool industry, China's self-developed heavy-duty, super-heavy duty machine products have been clamoring for the world's best doors in the limit specification. Such as the processing of 25m diameter ultra-heavy CNC vertical milling lathe, boring bar diameter 320mm floor type milling and boring machine, processing width of 10m or more CNC boring boring and milling machine, rotary diameter 5000mm above the NC heavy-duty horizontal lathe, etc. Intellectual property rights, and the level of technology is close to the world's advanced level of heavy machine tool products, they not only meet the needs of the country's major infrastructure projects, more China's machine tools to the high-end sounded a clarion call.

However, this horn assembles the high-end manufacturing sprints of the Chinese machine tool industry. It also allows some companies to blindly follow and enter the heavy machine tool market.

How does an enterprise stand firm in the market of heavy machine tools

In the face of current fierce competition, most of the old heavy machine tool companies exhibit calm and calm. While emerging companies are still using medium and low-end products as paving stones to enter the heavy machine tool industry, a group of veteran leading companies represented by Wuzhong, Shanghai Machine Tool, Qizhong CNC, Qi 2 Machine Tool, etc. have been fully committed to high-end products. The first set, major special projects, key equipment, and alternative import products. For these research and development on behalf of the domestic leading technology products, the old leader has contributed. At the same time, going abroad to open up the international market, let Chinese machine tools go to the world and demonstrate the strength of Chinese manufacturing has also become the important task of these leading companies.

In fact, after the adjustment of products and industrial structure in recent years, China's heavy machine tool companies have made great progress in product specifications and product functions. China's heavy-duty machine tool products are moving towards the development of high-end numerical control new products with multi-functional composite processing. It has achieved gratifying results in satisfying the individual needs of users, new technology research and new product development. Such as: Shanghai Machine Tool Plant super-heavy precision CNC roll grinder to achieve a maximum weight of 250 tons, the maximum diameter of 2.5 meters, the maximum length of 15 meters of high-precision grinding roller; Qizhong NC offline the world's largest 6.3 meters heavy CNC Lathes; and China's first, the world's largest, fully self-developed TK6932 super heavy-duty double-column CNC floor milling and boring machine developed by Qi 2 Machine Tool.

The development of heavy machine tools, in addition to technology accumulation, corporate heritage and cultural heritage are very important. This is exactly what some later companies can not achieve, which also increases the marketing difficulty for the entrants. Therefore, as long as users really understand the machine tool, even if the price is more expensive, they will still choose the mature products of the old companies. After all, these heavy machine tools are not fast-moving consumer goods, but are the core equipment that plays a revolutionary role in the manufacturing process of user companies.

From 2009 to 2010, the situation of the entire heavy machine tool market is still rather severe. The market cake is not as large as people think. The traditional old companies still play a leading role in heavy machine tools.

Heavy-duty machine tools are highly regarded by the market, and problems have emerged one after another. The market prospect of heavy machine tools is greatly affected by economic and social development, and has certain limitations. The demand industry is relatively narrow and the steps are very high. The market demand is greatly affected by the national policy factors, and the market response is lagging behind. The capital required for heavy-duty machine tools is relatively high, the recovery period is long, and the long service life of heavy-duty machine tools leads to a long replacement cycle and restricts investment. Therefore, if the current investment in the production of heavy machine tools is not standardized and guided, it will lead to industrial misalignment, increase the risk of corporate investment, and finally engender the follow-up crisis of the industry and enterprises.

Reviews

The good development trend of the heavy machine tool market has been favored by many manufacturers. Both emerging and old machine tool companies and even some marginal enterprises have mushroomed into the field of heavy machine tool manufacturing. The prices of heavy-duty machine tools and heavy-duty machine linens are often in the order of several million yuan. The price of some high-end cutting-edge products even reaches tens of millions. In addition, the level of technology is also very important for heavy machine tools. It is worth pondering whether emerging companies can stand firm on the market.