In the future, under the premise of the continuous expansion of China's machine tool market, the market demand structure will accelerate and the import will hit a record high, while the demand for domestic low-end products will be significantly reduced. Whether domestic machine tool manufacturers can speed up the pace of product structure adjustment and quickly meet the needs of users is an important factor in determining whether domestic machine tools can expand market share.
In 2011, the import growth rate of metal processing machine tools reached 40.6%, which was 11.2% higher than the growth rate of similar machine tools in China. Imports from Germany and Japan accounted for two-thirds of the total, pushing up the average unit price of metalworking machine tools by 33.2% year-on-year. It reflects that the upgrading of market demand structure has accelerated, and the demand for high-end products has increased significantly. It also reflects that domestic high-end products still cannot meet the requirements of this change in terms of technology level, industrialization, market adaptability and overall service.
At present, China's machine tool industry has already had a considerable scale. A large number of scientific and technological progress in the machine tool industry has entered the application field, and the manufacturing level of individual products is even close to the international advanced level. A number of medium and high-end machine tools also serve key areas such as automobiles, aerospace, ships, and energy, and also provide complete sets of equipment for high-end foreign users. For example, Jinan Second Machine Tool Co., Ltd. won the bid in the bidding project of the Ford Company press line in the United States, and will provide two of the world's most advanced press production lines with a total value of 1 billion yuan.
However, the large number of imports indicates that China's machine tool product structure still cannot meet the demand of the domestic market for medium and high-end. Among the imported products, China has imported a large number of machine tool parts and cutting tools, indicating that the bottleneck of functional components in China has not been significantly changed.
According to industry experts, a large part of China's imported machine tools are mid-range machine tools, and the demand for mid-range machine tools has increased significantly, reflecting the defects in domestic and high-end products in terms of technical level and industrialization.
In recent years, foreign companies such as TRUMPF and DMG have accelerated the offensive of mid-range machine tool products in China. In the future, international giants will quickly occupy the Chinese machine tool market with high-tech-led, low-priced mid-range machine tools assembled with high-tech, posing serious challenges for Chinese machine tool companies. In the future period of industry transformation and upgrading, focusing on the development of the mid-end machine tool market, and then advancing to the high-end market will be the best choice for the Chinese machine tool industry.
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