How should the domestic laser cutting industry structure develop?
Laser cutting is a very important application of laser processing technology. With the decrease of laser cost and the maturity of laser cutting technology, laser cutting machines are now selling well, accounting for more than 30% of the national laser processing equipment.
Compared with other cutting methods, the biggest difference between laser cutting is that it has the characteristics of high speed, high precision and high adaptability. At the same time, it also has the advantages of fine slitting, small heat-affected zone, good cutting surface quality, and fully automatic control of the cutting process. It can cut carbon steel, stainless steel, alloy steel, high anti-metal materials, leather, quartz, ceramics, glass, composite materials, etc. At present, laser cutting has been widely used in sheet metal processing, automobile and locomotive manufacturing, aviation, chemical industry, light industry, electrical and electronic, petroleum and metallurgy and other industrial sectors. In recent years, laser cutting technology has developed rapidly, with an annual growth rate of 15%-20% internationally. Laser cutting technology has become a new weapon in industrial processing.
Commercialized laser cutting equipment in my country began around 2000. Before that, laser cutting machines had to rely on imports, and the price was as high as millions of units. At that time, CO2 laser cutting was the dominant pattern. Since the emergence of domestic fiber lasers in 2009, several leading machine integrators have begun to "early adopt early adopters". The breakthrough and development of domestic high-power fiber laser technology has led to a decline in the price of laser cutting equipment, and the rapid development of fiber laser cutting has only taken five years. It has replaced the dominant position of CO2 laser cutting. Nowadays, there are nearly 100 domestic laser cutting integrators, and the competition is very fierce. High-power laser cutting machines have sold from one to two million, and some companies have sold hundreds of thousands. In 2016, in addition to several old brands such as Han's, Huagong Falilei, Tianqi, Pentium, Chutian, Lingchuang, and Dineng, these integrators also experienced rapid growth in their shipments, such as Hongshan and Lixing. , Xunlei, Tianhong, Dapeng, Meike, Yueming, Hymus, etc.
