The products of China's laser processing industry mainly include various laser marking machines, welding machines, cutting machines, dicing machines, carving machines, heat treatment machines, three-dimensional molding machines and texturing machines, which occupy a large market share in China. The punching machine in the international market has been gradually replaced by laser, while the punching machine and laser cutting machine coexist in China. However, with the continuous application of laser technology in the manufacturing industry, the ceramic laser cutting machine will gradually replace the punching machine, so the analysis shows 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, rolling stock manufacturing, aviation, chemical industry, light industry, electrical and electronic, petroleum and metallurgy and other industrial sectors. Take Japan as an example: in 1985, the annual sales volume of new punches in Japan was about 900, while the sales volume of laser cutting machines was only 100. However, in 2005, the sales volume soared to 950, while the annual sales volume of punches dropped to about 500.
According to the data in the Analysis Report on China's Laser Industry Market Outlook and Investment Strategic Planning 2015-2020 released by the Prospective Industry Research Institute, the scale of China's laser cutting equipment has maintained steady growth from 2008 to 2014. In 2008, the market size of laser cutting equipment in China was only 507 million yuan, and by 2012, it had increased by more than 100%. In 2014, the market size of laser cutting equipment in China was 1.235 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth rate of 8%.
According to statistics, by 2009, there were about 35,000 high-power laser cutting equipment in the world, which may be higher at present; However, China's current inventory is estimated at 2500-3000 units. It is estimated that by the end of the 12th Five Year Plan, the market demand for high-power CNC laser cutting machines in China will reach more than 10000 sets, and the market size will be more than 15D billion based on the price of 1.5 million per set. For China's current manufacturing equivalent, the penetration rate of high-power cutting equipment will be greatly increased in the future.
Based on the market scale growth of China's laser cutting equipment in recent years and the demand prospect of China's laser cutting equipment, the prospective industrial research institute predicted that the market scale of China's laser cutting equipment still maintained a steady growth trend. It is estimated that the market scale of laser cutting equipment in China will reach 1.9 billion yuan by 2020.
As the laser cutting process is limited by the laser power and intensity, most modern laser cutting machines are required to be equipped with lasers that can provide beam parameters close to the best value of the technology. High power laser technology represents the highest level of laser application technology. As of now, the amount of high-power laser cutting equipment in China has a huge difference compared with the developed countries in Europe and the United States. It can be predicted that in the future, China will have a high cutting speed The demand for high-end high-power CNC laser cutting machines characterized by high precision and large cutting format will be greatly increased.