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.
Market size:
According to the "2024 China Laser Industry Development Report", the global laser equipment market sales revenue in 2023 will be about US$22.6 billion, a slight increase from 2022. The overall Chinese laser equipment market is stable and improving, and the report of foreign research organization Precedence Research also stated that China is still the world's largest industrial laser processing application market to date. In 2023, the overall market size of China's laser cutting equipment reached 40.4 billion yuan.
Export situation:
Since 2019, China's laser processing equipment export data has been improving. According to data from the General Administration of Customs of China, since my country's laser processing equipment exports exceeded imports for the first time in 2019, the gap between the two has continued to widen. In 2023, my country's laser processing equipment exports reached 13.759 billion yuan, a record high; imports reached 4.609 billion yuan, which continued to decline. It can be seen that with the vigorous expansion of overseas markets by domestic laser equipment companies in the past two years, the export volume of laser processing equipment in 2023 has risen sharply, reaching a blowout development, and the gap with the import volume has further widened.
As the scale of China's laser industry becomes larger and larger, and the market becomes larger and larger, it is imperative for domestic companies to participate in global competition. Only by mastering the core technology can we gain an advantage in the competition in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain when facing a crisis. At present, the requirements for laser processing are becoming more and more intelligent, breaking the original single laser marking machine, welding machine, cutting machine and other equipment, and gradually moving towards smart factories and automated production lines.
At present, laser technology is becoming more and more mature. On the one hand, the power is constantly rising; on the other hand, the precision is constantly improving, and picosecond and femtosecond laser technology is gradually maturing and industrialized. Multi-faceted development is bound to strengthen many industries and even breed many emerging industries. The future applications of the laser industry should focus on the widespread application of ultrafast lasers, the application of laser cleaning in aerospace, the breaking of foreign monopoly by laser three-dimensional five-axis, and the gradually formed large-scale market for laser 3D printing.
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