Machine tool export growth accelerated restructuring deepen change

In the machine tool industry overall sluggish performance situation, machine tool export growth was significantly accelerated. Data show that the first 11 months of 2014, merchandise exports of machine tools $ 10.5 billion, an increase of 22.5%. Among the metal-working machines 3.06 billion US dollars, an increase of 18.6%.

Many domestic high-end machine with a five-axis although the basic functional requirements of high-end products, milling complex, large-sized gantry and other indicators, but often do not like the shape of God, and not on the performance perspective, in terms of accuracy, speed, static characteristics, dynamic characteristics, there is a big gap with foreign counterparts on the reliability "in 2015, China's machine tool industry is expected to go down-range, is expected to keep pace with developments in the industry as a whole was flat or modest growth." In the press conference held recently, China's Machine Tool Industry Association executive vice chairman and secretary general Chen Huiren said that with the market demand continues to escalate, the machine tool industry must accelerate the move to high-end, in order to truly get rid of the tide of development.

Machine tool export performance profile

As of November 2014, China's machine tool industry association focused on business contacts, new orders fell 1.7%, machine tool production fell by 2.1%, sales fell 1.5% while inventories increased by 4.3%, machine loss-making enterprises reached 36%.

In the machine tool industry overall sluggish performance of the unfavorable situation, machine tool export growth significantly faster, becoming the biggest highlight of the development of the machine tool industry. Data show that the first 11 months of 2014, merchandise exports of machine tools $ 10.5 billion, an increase of 22.5%. Among the metal-working machines 3.06 billion US dollars, an increase of 18.6%.

"Machine export growth, the core is the overseas market demand for machine tools exist objective." Chen Huiren analysis that national manufacturing development of emerging economies, brought about the demand for machine tool products.

For a long time, overseas markets for China's machine tool products, machine tools, machine tool handles, machine handwheel have no small demand, but because of strong demand for the Chinese domestic market, many machine tool companies engaged in the domestic market, there is no time for overseas markets. And recently two years, because the domestic market demand slowdown, machine tool enterprises are starting to use more and more energy to explore overseas markets, driven machine tools, machine tool handles, machine handwheel exports increased rapidly.

It is worth noting that export growth accelerated in the machine at the same time, export structure has also undergone a significant improvement. 2014 11 months, metalworking machine tool exports in total exports share of 29%. Which, on behalf of the development of high-end machine tool development trends of CNC machine tools accounted for 43%, an increase of 3.3 percentage points over the previous year.

The gradual deepening of structural adjustment

Although the fruits of development of China's machine tool industry is weak in 2014, but the internal differentiation of the machine tool industry, the restructuring of the whole industry is gradually deepened, the Chinese and the low-end to high-end business transformation trend more apparent.

By 2014, production and sales of non-emergence of general machine tools CNC significant decline, but only in 2011 the peak period of two to three percent, indicating that the total market demand for low-end machines significant decline has occurred.

Chen Huiren analysts said, as the domestic manufacturing sector to accelerate the pace of transformation and upgrading, user demand for high-end machine tools are growing. The look from the machine tool industry itself in recent years, the pace of development of CNC machine tool products category dramatically accelerated, made CNC machine tools has been basically completed industrialization with popular. From the application side, the majority of workers are cultivating machine operator vocational colleges out of professional and technical workers, skilled workers in many of these people will only operate CNC machine tools. "Gradually towards both ends of the production and demand of high-end, to accelerate the 'cliff-style" general decline in production and sales of the machine. "Chen Huiren said.

The rapid decline in production and sales of heavy-duty machine tools, is another great change occurred in the machine tool industry in 2014. In 2010, the Chinese heavy machine tool production and sales hit the highest level since 2000, but then began to decline year by year, in 2014, production and sales of heavy-duty machine tools but only 2010 of 20-30 percent.

In addition, the first 11 months of 2014, with investment in fixed assets investment in heavy industry is closely related with metal cutting machine tools, new orders fell by 4%, the yield fell by 2.3%, sales fell 2%, inventories rose 4.6%, the enterprise a loss of 41%. And now with consumer products related to the production and processing of metal forming machine tools, new orders grew by 8.6%, production increased by 1.5 percent, sales rose 1.1 percent, inventories rose 2.3%, loss-making enterprises is only 13%.

"Changes in China's economic structure, especially investment growth decelerated, and the contribution of consumption to GDP ratio rise has affected the changes in the structure of the machine within the industry." Chen Huiren analysis said that since 2000, China's heavy chemical industry, infrastructure fields and other facilities set up rapidly, which greatly pulled up the demand for heavy-duty machine tools. As China's economic development into the new normal, heavy chemical industry a significant slowdown in investment growth, low levels of duplication of investment have been effectively curbed, brought heavy machine needs to slow down. From this sense, the heavy machine tool industry growth rate of decline has become a "disaster area", but also from the reflection of China's economic structure optimization.

Industry is expected to stop the decline

Last year, machine tool imports show renewed growth. January 2014 to November, machine tools, machine tool handles, machine hand wheel commodities imported $ 16.2 billion, an increase of 8.8%. Among metal processing machine tool $ 10 billion, an increase of 5.5%, the market share of imported products accounted for 35.3% annual increase of 3.6 percentage points over the previous year.

"The market share of imported machine tools to further increase, indicating that faced with the same market situation changes, foreign competitors to adjust the speed of a shot than domestic companies." Said Chen Huiren more urgent that the majority of high-end contemporary Chinese machine tool still rely on imports.

One of the achievements of several reporters learned that over the past 10 years, the machine tool industry bakelite hand wheel is made of high-end products do not do. However, many machine tool companies just to stay in this stage, frequently is "reach the world advanced level," or "get a huge technological breakthrough," and really "good" but very few high-end products.

"A lot of domestic high-end machine with a high-end product although the basic functional requirements of five-axis, milling complex, large-sized gantry and other indicators, but often 'God does not like the shape of' point of view and not on the performance, in terms of accuracy, speed, static there is a big gap with foreign counterparts on the characteristics, dynamic characteristics, reliability. "Chen Huiren said.

Chen Huiren that moment, a lot of R & D personnel, managers tend to believe that the "do" to "good" is "the last kilometer." However, the "last kilometer" energy cost is much greater.

2015, China's macroeconomic still face greater downward pressure. However, with new industries, accelerate the development of new formats, as well as continue to optimize the structure of investment in fixed assets, the demand for the release of high-end machine tools. Therefore, China's machine tool industry association expects, by 2015, China's machine tool industry is expected to go down-range, or even increase slightly.

"Overall, the market for machine tools, bakelite handle product demand has been the transition to the high-end, general machine tools market space will become smaller and smaller. Domestic machine tool urgent need to accelerate towards the end, in order to compete with imported high-end machine tools extrusion products. "Chen Huiren said.