Zhejiang Machine Tool Industry Enters Rapid Development Period

Zhejiang Province is located on the southeast coast and in the Yangtze River Delta region. It enjoys an excellent geographic location and is an opportunity for the machine tool industry in transportation, import and export, technology import, and talent recruitment. In recent years, driven by the rapid development of metal processing and manufacturing, the machine tool industry in Zhejiang Province has also entered a period of rapid development. At the same time, the characteristics of the three-tier ladder development are more obvious.

The first opportunity for Zhejiang Machine Tool to flourish

As we all know, CNC machine tools are the foundation of the machinery industry and are widely used in many industries, such as military, aerospace, shipbuilding, railway, metallurgical and other equipment manufacturing, automotive and parts companies, agricultural machinery and valve industries. China is the world's largest supplier of CNC machine tools and has maintained the world’s largest machine tool market for 10 consecutive years.

According to statistics, a quarter of the world's machine tools are currently sold to China. In recent years, driven by the rapid development of metal processing and manufacturing, the machine tool industry in Zhejiang Province has also entered a period of rapid development. There are nearly 10,000 companies that produce machine tools in the province, and they are able to make changes in the situation. Especially in recent years, the development space and environmental improvement of private enterprises have gradually become an important force for the development of the machine tool industry in the province. Many large-scale enterprises in the province that have capital and technical strength have also entered the CNC machine tool industry, such as the Double Bird Group of Zhangzhou, Shaoxing, China’s Nanlong Group of Yongkang, Ruiyuan Group of Zhuji, Longxing Group of Ningbo, and Haitian Group of Ningbo. Wait.

The development of the three ladders is pyramidal

From the current perspective, the CNC machine tool industry in Zhejiang Province can be roughly divided into three echelons. The first echelon is a group of high-end CNC machine tools (such as vertical machining centers, horizontal machining centers, CNC gantry milling machines, etc.) headed by Haitian Seiko and Yujia Group. Although there are not many companies, they are high-end CNCs in China. The possession of machine tools is very large. In particular, Haitian Seiko, in the past few years attached great importance to technological innovation, new product research, an outstanding representative of Zhejiang machine tools.

The second echelon is a group of enterprises that can produce low, medium and high-grade CNC machine tools, including private enterprises Kaida Machine Tool Co., Ltd. and Yuhuan Kanmen Machine Tool Works. The number of these enterprises is not large, but after several years of development , has created its own brand and market share, has a certain degree of visibility in the country and the province. Through participating in the exhibition, attaching importance to online marketing and various image packaging, it has made its reputation in the industry more powerful and its performance has grown.

The third echelon is a group of private enterprises, mainly manufacturing low-end products (economical numerical control machine tools) headed by Zhejiang Jinhuo Machine Tool Co., Ltd. The largest number of these enterprises and the obvious regional distribution have often formed industrial clusters in the area. . It mainly focuses on Fuyang City, Ningbo City and Taizhou City, Wenling City and Yuhuan County. Among them, the Yuhuan County's machine tool industry has the best development situation. Under the guidance of the government and the association, hundreds of companies are now focusing on the production of economical CNC machine tools and are striving to start differentiated production, focusing on improving quality and performance, and vowed to jointly maintain good results. "Yuhuan Machine Tool" is a collective brand.

Obvious disadvantages need to be improved

Zhejiang CNC machine tools have obvious advantages in many aspects. Compared with similar domestic products, the cost performance is relatively high. It can meet customers' special requirements without increasing costs. For example, some users require cutting machine tools, and some customers require high-speed and high-efficiency machine tools. These make Zhejiang machine tools. Enterprises have a great advantage in the domestic machine tool industry competition. In addition, the development of industrial clusters also plays a good promotional role for market expansion. China Machine Tool Business Network is also focusing on this phenomenon, focusing on reporting and serving the machine tool industry cluster in Zhejiang Province. In addition, the regional production of economical CNC machine tools is highly concentrated, and it is easy to form an industrial chain. The upstream and downstream division of the industrial chain is relatively small, which can save a lot of costs for the company.

However, the proportion of private small-scale enterprises in Zhejiang's machine tool companies is relatively large, the overall quality of employees is poor, and the technical strength of enterprises is weak, resulting in weak product development capabilities and weak technological innovation capabilities. Development funds and R&D teams cannot adapt to the needs of the market economy. There is a serious shortage of investment in technology development, and companies rarely have core technologies with independent intellectual property rights.

Therefore, the emphasis on the development of private enterprises has become the focus of the development of Zhejiang machine tools. The government should introduce relevant documents and measures to encourage and support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, face market competition by proper means, and guard against shoddy and damage the reputation of local machine tools. Can also develop space for high-end machine tools, so as to avoid dragging down the price war and other people.