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In the 1970s, laser marking machine had already emerged, and after long-term development and practice, it has gradually become widely known and become a common office tool in daily office. The global fiber laser marking machine market size has shown an overall downward trend in recent years, from US$37.06 billion in 2016 to US$33.98 billion in 2021.

Laser equipment is currently widely used in many processing fields such as material cutting, welding, surface treatment, drilling, and marking. It not only improves production efficiency and reduces production costs, but also improves product quality, becoming one of the key technologies to promote the transformation of industrial manufacturing to high-end and intelligent.

Currently, among my country's laser equipment, cutting accounts for 41% in terms of revenue, and its application is the most mature. However, in 2021, the sales volume of my country's laser cutting equipment was about 12% of the output of metal cutting machine tools, and the penetration rate was still low. Next is welding and marking, which accounted for 13%. The penetration rate of laser welding is lower, and there is more room for growth.

In recent years, the laser marking machine industry has ushered in rapid development driven by the global manufacturing upgrade and automation trend. According to customs data, China's laser marking machine exports reached 4.148 million units in 2022, with an export value of 15.5 billion yuan. Although the export volume dropped slightly to 3.813 million units in 2023, the export value climbed to 17.39 billion yuan, showing the continued growth of product added value and market demand. In the first half of 2024 (January-June), the export volume of laser marking machines has reached 1.614 million units, with an export value of 8.25 billion yuan. The industry has an annual compound growth rate of about 12%, and the global market size is expected to reach US$5.18 billion by 2029.

With the continuous advancement of science and technology and the rapid development of manufacturing, laser cutting technology, as an important branch of modern manufacturing, has been widely used worldwide. As the core equipment of laser cutting technology, the development of laser cutting machine directly reflects the competitiveness of the country's manufacturing industry. In recent years, domestic Laser cutting machine has gradually won the favor of the international market with its excellent performance and reasonable price.

With the development of the laser industry and the changes in demand from downstream industries, medium and high power laser equipment has become a hot topic in the market, especially the emergence of 20kW or even higher power fiber laser cutting machines, which has promoted the maturity of laser technology and continuously broken through the cutting thickness. limit. It can be predicted that with the upgrading of laser cutting equipment in my country, high-power and high-speed laser cutting machines will further replace traditional processing equipment with their significant efficiency and precision advantages, greatly improving industrial processing efficiency and quality.

Laser cutting uses a focused high-power density laser beam to irradiate the material being processed, causing the irradiated material to melt, vaporize, ablate or reach the ignition point quickly, and at the same time uses a high-speed airflow coaxial with the beam to blow away the molten material, thereby achieving The effect of cutting the workpiece. Compared with other cutting methods, laser cutting has many advantages such as good cutting quality, high cutting efficiency and fast cutting speed, which can significantly improve processing efficiency. It is these advantages that make laser cutting a relatively mature and widely used new technology in laser processing.

With the recovery of the global economy, investment in manufacturing has accelerated significantly, and the prosperity of industries such as laser equipment and industrial automation has continued to improve. Laser processing technology has gradually replaced traditional processing methods with its advantages of fast speed, high precision and good processing quality, and has become one of the high-tech technologies that the country focuses on supporting and promoting. With the accelerated advancement of intelligent manufacturing and the continuous development of technology, the depth and breadth of downstream applications of laser processing technology will be further expanded.

Laser technology is a cutting-edge technology for modern high-end manufacturing. Compared with traditional processing equipment, laser processing equipment, optical communication devices and equipment, laser measurement equipment, lasers, laser medical equipment, laser components and other laser equipment have many comparative advantages such as high precision and high efficiency. Therefore, with the rapid development of laser processing technology, especially the rapid iteration of core component laser technology, the laser power continues to increase, the cost continues to decrease, the range of processable materials continues to expand, and the processing quality and processing efficiency continue to improve. The replacement effect of laser technology on traditional process technology is increasingly prominent, and it plays an important role in the process of industrial transformation and upgrading. From the perspective of application scope, the application of laser processing technology has expanded from the light industrial fields such as food, textiles, and electronics at the beginning to heavy industrial fields such as automobiles, ships, aerospace, aviation, and high-speed rail. Data shows that my country's laser market has achieved more than 6 times growth in the past 10 years, and the market size has grown to 241.532 billion yuan by 2023.