Machine Tool Industry Needs to Improve Technology Level

In recent years, although China's hardware and tools industry is not small development, but far behind the development of the machine tool industry. Most of the advanced cutting tools used in production are tools imported from foreign countries that contain foreign-funded enterprises in China. We are also exporting a lot of knives now, but they are mainly low-priced, standard tools.

In 2004, China produced about 2.5 billion knives, of which 2 billion were mostly exporters of low-priced and low-cost tools. In the following years, exports were still basically medium and low-grade tools.

In the U.S. market, medium-sized twist drills cost about US$10 each, while China's low-end twist drills cost only US$1 and are used as hand tools.

China now has the world's largest automotive industry. However, the high-efficiency production lines introduced by the automotive industry from abroad have used 80% to 90% of the cutting tools. They are still imported cutters containing domestic foreign-funded enterprises.

Now China's tool production supply and marketing situation is that high-end advanced tool products mainly rely on imports from abroad, while the low-grade tool products are mostly exported for malignant expansion, and this situation must be changed as soon as possible.

China's machinery manufacturing industry uses a large number of standard tools, while developed countries use a large number of high-efficiency cutting tools, resulting in far lower processing efficiency in China than in foreign countries.

China's hardware tool factory still produces a large number of traditional standard cutting tools. Some small tool factories also produce a large number of low-grade cutting tools. According to statistics, China consumes 40% of the world's tool materials, and its sales revenue only accounts for 12% to 15% of the world's tool industry.

The gross profit margin of foreign tool companies is about 40%, while the profit of China's tool factory is very low, and some of the tool factories still suffer losses. Now our country's tool factory mainly produces traditional standard tools.

According to Luo Baihui, in the future, the proportion of high-efficiency CNC machine tools in China's factories will increase year by year, and the demand for efficient and advanced tools will increase rapidly, while the demand for traditional standard tools will decrease year by year.

The labor productivity of China's manufacturing industry is only 1/3 to 1/5 of that of the United States and Japan. Many Chinese machinery products are cheap but their quality is also low.

Recently, due to the rise in *** and the rapid increase in domestic labor costs, coupled with the economic cold wave and crisis, it has seriously affected the export of middle and low-end products, and forced us to raise the technological level of the machinery industry as soon as possible, turning the crisis into an opportunity to manufacture. Strong country is forging ahead.

From 2000 to 2008, the rapid development of China's machinery manufacturing industry from 2000 to 2008, the development of China's machinery manufacturing industry is extremely rapid, not only the production of automobiles, machine tools, shipbuilding, power generation equipment, etc., has grown rapidly, but also the product level has been continuously improved. The market share of domestic machine tool output value was 56.3% in 2007 and 61% in 2008. It continued to increase in 2009, reaching 70.1%.

In 2008, China's machine tool industry consumed 19.44 billion U.S. dollars worth of machine tools, ranking first in the world; 13.96 billion U.S. dollars worth of machine tools, ranking third in the world; 2.11 billion U.S. dollars worth of export machine tools, ranking sixth in the world; and 7.59 billion U.S. dollars worth of imported machine tools, ranking first in the world. The import and export of machine tools exceeded US$5.48 billion. In 2009, affected by the cold wave of the world economy, the growth rate was reduced, but foreign countries were more affected.

Last year, China’s production machine tools leapt to the top in the world with 5.9 billion U.S. dollars in machine tools, 1.14 billion U.S. dollars in machine tools, and 4.49 billion U.S. dollars in machine tool imports and exports. Machine tools for import and consumption ranked first in the world for eight consecutive years.

In 2007, the output of CNC machine tools in China was 123,257 sets, an increase of 32.6% over 2006. In 2008, China's CNC machine tools were affected by the world economic crisis, and the output was 122,211 units, which was basically the same as in 2007.

From January to December of 2008, the output of CNC machine tools in China was affected by the economic crisis. After July, the output declined, and in December, it has risen slightly.

In 2009, the output of CNC machine tools increased significantly, reaching 143,904 units. The market share of domestic CNC machine tools reached 62%.

The situation of China's machinery manufacturing industry in 2009 From the perspective of the general environment, since the second half of 2008, the machinery manufacturing industries in various countries have been affected by the financial crisis to varying degrees, and the losses suffered by several major automobile and machine tool producing countries have been particularly serious.

The production of automobiles in all countries in the world has dropped significantly. China's auto production and sales have not only fallen but have continued to increase dramatically. In 2009, China’s automobile production surpassed the United States and ranked first in the world.

In the first half of 2009, the statistics of machine tool production in major countries are as follows:

In the first quarter of 2009, the Japanese machine tool industry's orders fell by 84.6%. Domestic demand and exports both fell, affecting a 46.2% drop in sales.

US machine tool orders began to decline in November 2008. New orders received in April 2009 were only US$97.04 million, a decrease of 42% from March 2009 and 78% from April 2008. Orders from January to April 2009 The amount decreased by 71% year-on-year.

Germany has revised its forecast for 2009 full-year order trends from a previous decline of 7% to a decline of 10% to 20%. The total orders for German machine tools fell by 70% year-on-year.

Compared with the same period of 2008 in China, Taiwan's machine tool exports fell by 51.9% in January-April 2009. Imports decreased by 84.6%, total exports decreased by 51.9% from the same period of last year, and exports decreased significantly.

Relatively speaking, China's machine tool hardware industry is less damaged. According to the statistics of the 177 key contact enterprises of the China Machine Tool & Tool Association, the total industrial output value decreased by 5.0% year-on-year from January to May 2009, and sales revenue decreased 6.2% year-on-year. %, total profit decreased by 33.1% year-on-year.

The data shows that during the financial crisis, the Chinese machine tool industry did not suffer a lot.

Statistics show that from January to April 2009, the investment in fixed assets of the machine tool industry was 23.2 billion yuan, an increase of 48.8% year-on-year; by May 2009, the machine tool industry was declared as a national revitalization planning technical reform project, totaling 30 items. Invested 7.21 billion yuan, which effectively improved the manufacturing level and capabilities of the machine tool industry.

In the second half of 2009, the production situation in the machine tool industry significantly improved. Due to the low base in the second half of 2008, since July 2009, the monthly industrial output value of the machine tool industry has reached double-digit growth year-on-year, with concrete completion and year-on-year growth. speed.

The situation of the machinery manufacturing industry in the first half of 2010 In the first half of 2010, the machinery manufacturing industry in China was in good condition, and the overall production and sales were booming. The machine tool industry was also the same.

The machine tool industry continued its rapid growth. In the first half of the year, it achieved a total output value of 242.42 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 41.4%. The total output value of the machine tool industry was 57.21 billion yuan, an increase of 31.7% year-on-year. The output of metal cutting machine tools was 338,209 units, of which the output of CNC machine tools reached 945,191 units, a year-on-year increase of 25.8% and 52.2% respectively. The metal cutting machine tool industry achieved a profit of 2.27 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 68.3%. The profit margin of the output value was 5.0%, an increase of 1.1 percentage points year-on-year.

In the first half of 2010, China's machine tool industry totaled 3.11 billion U.S. dollars, which was a substantial increase from 2009, but it was still 7.1% lower than the same period in 2008.

The investment boom driven by the domestic economic stimulus plan resulted in a significant increase in imports of machine tools. In the first half of 2010, imports increased by 12.7% compared to the same period of 2008. Among them, the import of cutting tools increased particularly rapidly, reaching US$530 million in the first half of the year, an increase of 138.0 year-on-year. %.

China's exports are cheap medium and low-end machine tools, while imports are expensive CNC and precision machine tools.

The current situation of international economic development is still not clear. Faced with the complex and ever-changing domestic and international situation, although the machinery industry in the first half of 2012 is in good shape, the trend is not optimistic. Luo Baihui believes that there are still large gaps in technology between our country and the world's most powerful manufacturing nations. We must study and improve product quality, increase high-end products, improve manufacturing technology, and strive to innovate. In the post-financial crisis era, the Chinese machine tool industry will strive To achieve the transformation from a big machine tool to a powerful machine tool.

The development of China's tool industry China's consumption of cutting tools in 2005 was about US$1.7 billion. In 2006, it spent about US$2 billion in tool consumption, including about US$1 billion in imported tools.

In 2007, the tool industry developed rapidly, and sales revenue increased by about 28%. In the first three quarters of 2008, the tool industry continued to develop at a rapid rate, with an increase of more than 20%. However, after the decline in October, the growth rate was still above 12%. Affected by the world economic crisis, the tool industry continued to decline in the first half of 2009, but after July to August the entire economic situation has begun to pick up, and the tool industry has gradually improved.

If China's hardware machinery industry wants to make further progress in 2012, it must work hard on the technology and develop more sophisticated high-quality high-tech products.