Picking up too fast, machine tool companies are bullish
The market is surprisingly good
The two messages I heard during the show may be a more vivid indication of the status quo.
It is understood that the Shenyang Machine Tool Group's general-purpose machine tools with a stock of over 100 million yuan last year have not only sold out, but also received a lot of new orders.
The second news is that a CNC system manufacturing company in China has laid off 300 people last year due to the conservative forecast of the situation. However, in the first quarter, the production task was aggravated and more than 300 people had to be recruited again.
Not only did the domestic machine tool manufacturing industry react to this, but several foreign machine tool parts and components companies that entered the Chinese machine tool market for some years also showed no expectation of a rebound in the market.
“The market is surprisingly good. Exceeding expectations, the company’s sales in January doubled compared with the same period last year, and the growth in February also reached 60%. But I told employees not to look at the data for the past two months because it is possible It was last year, but if there is a steady climb in March and April, then we can have an optimistic judgment on the situation throughout the year.†Jiang Wende, managing director of Shangao Tools (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. told reporters that his The attitude is still cautious, and I believe that the overall trend of the industry does not rule out the trend of high and low.
Jia Jiangyang, CEO of Dr. Johannes Heidehan (China) Co., Ltd. said that the recovery of the Chinese market was unexpected and the importance of the Chinese market to the company was more prominent.
Perhaps the data is more convincing. According to the latest statistics from the customs, from January to March 2010, China imported a total of 21,044 metal processing machine tools, an increase of 12.6% over the 18,690 units in the same period of 2009; the cumulative import value was approximately 1.742 billion US dollars, compared with 1.006 billion US dollars in the same period of 2009. It has increased by 15.7%.
In March alone, China imported more than 10,000 metal processing machine tools, a substantial increase of 148% from the previous month, up 41% year-on-year; the import value was about 715 million US dollars, an increase of 49.46% from the previous month and an increase of 26.75%.
Although the situation is very good, many companies have also expressed their own concerns. For example, Yang Yongjun, chairman of Qinghai Huading Heavy-duty Machine Tool Co., Ltd., believes that although the market is picking up, the demand of customers is relatively large, but the actual transaction is still lagging behind the speed of information amplification. If the market is no longer repeated, it is only possible to return to the level of the first half of 2008 in May. In fact, the best time in the market is in 2007.
In the interview, the reporter found that more than one entrepreneur believes that any crisis that followed should be the survival of the fittest and the upgrading of the entire industry. However, due to the rapid recovery, the process of survival of the fittest has not yet finished, and the market has rebounded rapidly. In this sense, it is not entirely a good thing to make a group of enterprises and products that should be eliminated. In the near future, the industry will experience a shock in order to complete the transformation of the industry.
Therefore, at the same time of joy and excitement, many entrepreneurs are more embarrassed.
Shi Guang, general manager of Shanghai Machine Tool Works Co., Ltd. believes that when the market is good, companies must seize the market, otherwise they will lose the opportunity. But after all, there have been lessons, just to see the current interests are not desirable, so we must also flexibly adjust when we adhere to the main line of corporate adjustment.
For the current and future market expectations, he laughed and said: "The market is really very strong now, can you continue to say it. But I believe that even if there is another crisis, the company's ability to cope will definitely be different. After all, have experience, eat one I am long and smart."
The first batch of major special products were tested
In addition, a major feature of this exhibition is that many key machine tool companies have marked a major special product on the individual machine tools in the booth.
In this regard, the person in charge of the company said that since 2010 was the opening year of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan†and a key year for implementing the “equipment manufacturing adjustment and revitalization planâ€, major special scientific and technological research has achieved stage results, so it was exhibited. A number of exhibits reflecting the current high-tech level of China's machine tool manufacturing industry have been accepted for inspection by various departments of the country.
It is understood that in 2009, a total of 194 special projects were arranged for high-tech CNC machine tools projects, including 72 high-tech CNC machine tools projects of 37 major science and technology projects. Except for 3 companies that did not participate in the exhibition, the remaining 34 companies undertook the project; the 42 major projects of high-tech CNC machine tools for science and technology major projects were undertaken by 30 companies, 5 companies did not participate in the exhibition, and the remaining 25 companies Number of exhibitors.
For example, Chongqing Machine Tool (Group) Co., Ltd. exhibited a large-scale high-efficiency CNC milling machine with modular design. The maximum machining diameter is 3200mm, the maximum machining modulus is 32, the 5-axis control is 3-axis linkage, and the high-speed large-scale CNC is adopted. Milling machine table hydrostatic guide rail technology, high-power dual-channel anti-backlash main drive system, high-modulus gear high-speed milling technology, large-scale milling machine anti-vibration and anti-interference technology. It is understood that this product belongs to the key content of "modular high-speed, precision, large-scale CNC gear hobbing machine".
In addition, the Beijing Electric Processing Research Institute exhibited the N850 five-axis five-link precision CNC EDM machine for the key parts processing of aero-engines. The largest workpiece can reach 3000kg and the maximum electrode is 150kg, which is the first in China. The working table is 1150mm×600mm, the positioning accuracy of X, Y and Z axes is 0.015mm, the repeating positioning accuracy is 0.008mm, and the best surface roughness Ra0.1μm is processed. It is also a major special “five-axis linkage precision for complex surface processing of special materialsâ€. CNC EDM machine tool."
In addition, due to handling problems, there are also some major CNC heavy-duty machine tools, such as: high-speed gantry five-axis linkage machining center, super heavy-duty CNC horizontal lathe, super heavy-duty CNC floor milling and boring machine, CNC heavy-duty bridge gantry five-axis Motorcycle milling machine tools, large-scale multi-station press automation lines, etc., because the machine tool is overweight, can not be exhibited in kind, but also introduced in the exhibition in the form of pictures and images.