Imported machine tools hit the Chinese market and domestic companies face challenges

As a result of changes in international machine tool marketing strategies, high-tech-driven low-price mid-range machine tool products assembled with high-tech tools have rapidly occupied the Chinese machine tool market, posing serious challenges to Chinese domestic machine tool companies.

As a result of changes in international machine tool marketing strategies, high-tech-driven low-price mid-range machine tool products assembled with high-tech tools have rapidly occupied the Chinese machine tool market, posing serious challenges to Chinese domestic machine tool companies. The growth rate of imports of machine tools is much higher than that of domestic machine tools and tools, reflecting the continuous changes in the market demand structure and the significant increase in demand for mid-range products. It also reflects the existence of domestic mid-range products in terms of both technological level and industrialization. Inadequacies.

China Machine Tool Industry Association statistics show that the first three quarters of 2011, the cumulative growth of machine tool products 38.5%. Of which, metal processing machine tools imported 9.91 billion US dollars, an increase of 51.4%. Due to the surge in imports, the market share of domestic metalworking machine tools and CNC machine tools has dropped significantly.

According to statistics, in the first three quarters of this year, China's machine tool industry accumulated a total industrial output value of 472.17 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 33.5%. This means that although the Chinese machine tool industry has huge production capacity, it cannot actually "arm itself."

According to Guan Xiyou, chairman of Shenyang Machine Tool Group, the machine tool companies in Germany and Japan affected by the international financial crisis are recovering quickly. The low-priced mid-range machine tool products produced by industry giants Mazak and Demaghi are highly welcomed by the Chinese market. The influx of mid-range products has brought tremendous competitive pressure on China's development of medium and high-end CNC machine tools industry.

The data show that in the first three quarters, the industrial output value of the machine tool accessories industry increased by 42.9% year-on-year, while the import value of machine tool parts and components increased by 40.8% year-on-year, basically similar to the year-on-year growth rate of domestic machine tool output value. It can be seen that most of the medium-to-high-grade metal processing machine tools currently manufactured in China are still equipped with imported functional components, reflecting that China's independent innovation capability is not strong, basic, key, and common technologies are not fully understood, and the development of functional components still lags behind the reality of host development. .

The two giants of the world's machine tools - Germany DMG, Japan Mori Seiki will establish a joint venture with the Shenyang Machine Tool Group in Shenyang, which is bound to change the world machine tool industry structure.