The 18th China International Machine Tool Exhibition was successfully held in Beijing on April 10. Under the background of China's epidemic prevention and control transition, the exhibition brought together more than 1,600 manufacturers and manufacturers from 28 countries and regions. Machine tool associations and trade promotion agencies from 13 countries and regions including the United States, Germany, Japan, and Switzerland organized offline exchanges, which is of great significance for domestic machine tool manufacturers and buyers to understand the international machine tool market.

　　China International Machine Tool Exhibition is the wind vane and barometer of China's machinery manufacturing technology progress and the development of the machine tool industry. MIR Rui Industry analyzes the future of the downstream machine tool industry by collecting relevant information on exhibitor structure, exhibit structure, on-site audience and technical level. changes and the attitude of foreign manufacturers towards the Chinese market.

　　Exhibition visitor data hit a record high

　　Chinese and foreign manufacturers arrived as scheduled with their exhibits

　　According to the statistics of the China International Exhibition Center, the total number of visitors from April 10-15 was 336,504, an increase of 28.61% compared with CIMT2021, and an increase of 5.36% compared with CIMT2019; the total number of people was 242,246, an increase of 21.11% compared with CIMT2021, and an increase of 6.89% compared with CIMT2019 %; Among them, the number of visitors entering the hall was 154,957, an increase of 26.98% compared with CIMT2021, and an increase of 11.42% compared with CIMT2019. The three indicators of the total number of people, the total number of people, and the number of viewers all hit record highs.

　　Changes in audience data of China International Machine Tool Exhibition from 2017 to 2023

　　The 2023 China International Machine Tool Exhibition is the first exhibition since the end of the epidemic. The number of visitors has not only returned to the pre-epidemic level, but also has a relatively high increase compared with that before the epidemic, indicating that the exhibition is still an important place for international advanced manufacturing technology exchanges and trade. It has also become a display platform for the latest achievements of modern equipment manufacturing technology, and its status in the industry and the world has not declined.

　　Since 1989, the China International Machine Tool Exhibition (CIMT) has been successfully held for 18 sessions. The scale of the first 16 sessions showed a trend of continuous expansion, and the number of exhibitors changed greatly before and after the epidemic. In 2023, CIMT will have more than 1,600 exhibitors, an increase of 4.4% compared to 2021, including more than 1,200 domestic manufacturers, an increase of 41.1% compared to 2021; more than 300 overseas exhibitors, a decrease of 42.6% compared to 2021 %.

　　Changes in the number of exhibitors from 1989 to 2023

　　Policies and demands attract Chinese manufacturers to settle in the machine tool industry

　　From the overall data, the number of CIMT exhibitors in 2023 will rebound compared with 2021, but the original scale has not been restored. Judging from the changes in the number of exhibitors in China, the long-term supply-side reform and transformation and upgrading have given many companies confidence in the development of the machine tool industry in the future; the growth of new demand in the downstream industries of new energy vehicles, aerospace, and mechanical engineering has attracted a large number of companies. Many cutting tool and tool companies have transformed into the field of machine tool functional components and cutting tools, and the process of turning military machine tools to civilian use is also advancing. Overall, China's machine tool industry has huge room for development in the future market. After entering 2023, the government and the downstream market will combine to help the transformation and upgrading of the machine tool industry and promote the high-quality and high-level development of machine tool products.

　　Europe, America, Japan and South Korea have different attitudes towards the Chinese market

　　According to the number of exhibitors from overseas countries at CIMT in 2023, overseas manufacturers are not less interested in the Chinese machine tool market. We understand their views on the Chinese market through exchanges and interviews with some foreign exhibitors.

　　The specific number of overseas exhibitors in each country in the 2023 exhibition

　　Japanese and Korean

　　According to MIR Rui Industry's on-site investigation, most of the Japanese exhibitors are members from the headquarters company. Through exchanges, most companies said that due to reasons such as epidemic prevention and control and rapid changes in the Chinese market, the decision-makers of Japanese machine tool companies are not clear enough about the market perception of China's downstream industries. Therefore, Japanese machine tool companies currently hold a wait-and-see attitude towards the Chinese market.

　　South Korea's representative machine tool company Doosan Machine Tool was acquired by Dean Group in 2022 and changed its name to Dean Machine Tool, but Dean Machine Tool's attitude towards the Chinese market has not changed much. In 2023, due to the recovery of various industries and the impact of more diversified markets, the market environment of the machine tool industry is still unclear. The current number of orders in China is not as expected by Dean Machine Tool. From the perspective of long-term development, China still has a large demand for cost-effective machine tools, the policy environment is favorable, and the customer base is stable. Dean Machine Tool said that it will still focus on the Chinese market.

　　Europe

　　In the first quarter of 2023, the sales of some European machine tool companies in China generally declined, and the sales of a few high value-added models were better. However, from a long-term perspective, the downstream market demand for Chinese machine tools is strong, and most European machine tool companies still hope to continue to promote localization in China, and may compete with Chinese machine tool companies through price wars and other methods.

　　At this exhibition, China Machine Tool Industry Association conducted several friendly exchanges with many European countries, which laid a good foundation for the future Sino-European machine tool trade. Among them, on April 13, the China Machine Tool and Tool Industry Association (CMTBA, hereinafter referred to as "China Machine Tool Association") and the German Machine Tool Manufacturers Association (VDW) held an online meeting to exchange the latest progress of NC-Link and umati and explore in-depth cooperation The two sides introduced the latest development ideas and technology research and development progress of NC-Link and umati respectively. On the same day, the Swiss ambassador to China visited the CIMT2023 exhibition. Mr. Wang Liming, the vice president of the China Machine Tool Industry Association, the organizer of the exhibition, accompanied the ambassador Bai Ruiyi and his party to visit the CIMT2023 Swiss pavilion. The ambassador and his party carefully visited the exhibits from Swiss companies and communicated with the exhibitors. The responsible persons had a lively exchange.

　　Domestic machine tool product structure upgrade

　　Significant high-end trend

　　According to the data disclosed by the China Machine Tool Industry Association, the operating income of the machine tool industry in 2022 will decrease by 0.3% year-on-year, which is basically the same as that in 2021, while the total profit will increase by as much as 43.7% year-on-year. The impact of the epidemic in 2022 will cause the overall market of machine tools in China to be poor, and the overall recovery trend of revenue will slow down; the large increase in total profit is mainly due to the fact that the industry as a whole has been at a low profit level for a long time, and the total profit base is low, but at the same time from From the side, it reflects that the upgrading trend of machine tool product structure is obvious.

　　From the perspective of import and export structure, China's metal processing machine tool imports in 2022 will be 6.6 billion US dollars, a year-on-year decrease of 11.5%, showing an overall downward trend; exports will be 6.29 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 18.3%, showing a growing trend. From the perspective of import and export structure, the trade surplus continues to expand, and China's dependence on imported machine tools has been significantly reduced; the export variety structure of machine tool products with high technical content such as machining centers and CNC lathes has been optimized.

　　The current weakness of China's machine tool market is that high-end machine tool products are highly dependent on imports. This is mainly manifested in the low localization rate of CNC machine tools, the gap between the core component technology of CNC machine tools and the international level, and the high degree of dependence on imports. Judging from the product structure of major Chinese manufacturers exhibited this time, it can be seen that Chinese CNC machine tool manufacturers are continuously increasing the research and development of mid-to-high-end CNC machine tools, and are developing towards agglomeration and high-end.

　　At the 18th China International Machine Tool Exhibition, many excellent Chinese manufacturers exhibited their own machine tool products. We have listed some manufacturers and their exhibited products to provide you with analysis and reference. Representative products include the YKZ7236 gear grinding machine newly developed by Qinchuan Machine Tool, which breaks through the maximum linear speed of the grinding wheel at 80 m/s and the maximum speed of the grinding wheel at 10,000 rpm; the HNC-848DiM series high-end CNC system of Huazhong CNC Tested and verified on the machine tool and supporting applications, the processing effect has reached the level of well-known foreign CNC systems, and achieved batch breakthroughs in key areas of domestic five-axis CNC systems. The GMC200u/t five-coordinate machining center developed by General Technology Shenyang Machine Tool adopts the international mainstream advanced structure and technology. The product takes into account high precision and high rigidity. The machine tool performance index is excellent, and the key precision reaches the international advanced level. It is suitable for high-precision machining of rotary parts It can be widely used in many key fields such as energy.

　　Key exhibits of Chinese manufacturers

　　As the "industrial mother machine", the machine tool industry is the carrier of advanced manufacturing technology and the basic production means of the equipment industry, and it is also the basic equipment of the equipment manufacturing industry. The Chinese government has issued a series of policies to continue to support the development of the domestic high-end CNC machine tool industry, and listed high-end CNC machine tools as one of the key development areas of the manufacturing industry in "Made in China 2025"; The high-quality development of enterprises" press conference stated that new breakthroughs have been continuously achieved in the key core technology research of "stuck necks", including scientific and technological investment in key areas such as integrated circuits and industrial mother machines, and the ability to improve basic research and applied basic research.

　　Changes and Development of Machine Tool Technology

　　At this exhibition, Mao Yufeng, president of the China Machine Tool Association, said that "the traditional manufacturing industry will accelerate digital transformation, promote advanced and applicable technologies, and strive to improve the level of high-end, intelligent, and green. Strategic emerging industries will lead future development New pillars and new tracks, including a new generation of information technology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, new energy, new materials, high-end equipment, green environmental protection, etc., have brought new and potential demands to China's machine tool market." Digitalization , intelligence, green environmental protection, and compounding are the development trends of China's machine tool market demand in the future.

　　Digitizing

　　With the development of the Internet and computer technology, digital transformation in various industries has become a major trend. In the post-epidemic era, with the recovery of the manufacturing industry, the deep integration of information technology and manufacturing technology has made the advantages of the integration and innovation of the machine tool industry increasingly prominent, maximizing the sharing of customer resources, the mutual matching of technical resources, and the complementarity of supply resources, and the establishment of upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain broad alliance. The implementation of NC-Link (Numerical Control Equipment Industrial Internet Communication Protocol) further promotes the implementation of the digital economy in the machine tool industry and related manufacturing fields, helping machine tools realize the mapping from physical state to digital state.

　　*NC-Link is a unified standard for industrial field interconnection and intercommunication researched and developed based on the new generation of information and communication technology.

　　The iNC-Cloud industrial Internet integrated solution independently developed by Huazhong CNC can meet the needs of multi-type industrial equipment access, multi-source industrial data fusion, massive industrial data management, and various industrial application integration. Supported by the four major systems of "multi-source perception", "storage analysis", "information security", and "identification traceability", it provides all-round solutions such as flexible production lines, digital workshops, and smart factories.

　　intelligent

　　Under the goal of "Made in China 2025", intelligent manufacturing has become the goal pursued by the current domestic advanced manufacturing enterprises, providing a new development space for the machine tool industry, and intelligence has gradually become the future development trend of the machine tool industry.

　　At this exhibition, Beijing FANUC (FANUC) proposed automation, digitalization, and intelligent solutions, covering digital factory planning, production line planning and implementation, equipment IoT, factory operation management, performance management, business analysis, and intelligent decision-making. and other needs and applications.

　　Green

　　To realize the green strategy of "carbon peak" and "carbon neutrality", the machine tool industry must not only strive to realize the low-carbon transformation of the enterprise itself, but also undertake the important task of providing low-carbon emission machine tool products for industrial production, so as to improve the overall The technical level of the industry promotes the sustainable development of the entire industry. To this end, the Chinese government is strengthening the supervision of the machine tool industry, and at the same time actively promoting the development and application of green technologies to promote the higher quality development of the machine tool industry.

　　Japan's MAZAK (Mazak) company proposed three ways to reduce carbon emissions and reduce the impact on the environment through energy-saving technology, the use of artificial intelligence and digital technology, and process integration. MAZAK's VCN-600 vertical machining center adopts a high-energy-saving cooling unit. The refrigerant inverter can optimize the cooling capacity according to the spindle load during processing, which can reduce energy consumption by 11% per year; the hydraulic unit of VARIAXIS i-800 NEO uses storage Energy converter and inverter cooling device can greatly reduce energy consumption during operation, and can reduce energy consumption by 21% per year.

　　Composite

　　In recent years, with the acceleration of product upgrading and the improvement of product performance requirements, it has become one of the main competitiveness of enterprises to ensure product quality while reducing production costs and shortening production cycles. Multi-function machine tools that realize turning, drilling, milling, boring and grinding at the same time can better meet the needs of users, and obtain significant technical and economic effects by reducing equipment investment, reducing production costs, improving processing quality and shortening production cycles. . It can be seen that the advantages of this compound machine tool make it have a broad future development space.

　　The BHR800V horizontal milling-turning compound machining center of Qinchuan Machine Tool adopts a dual-motor master-slave mode spindle box and an independent warehouse-style tool magazine, which can realize various compound high-precision machining such as turning, milling, boring, drilling, gear milling, and grinding. It is good at deep hole processing, the maximum processing hole depth can reach 1500mm, and it is used in the processing of transmission shafts in the fields of energy, aerospace, and large marine diesel engines. Shenyang Zhongyi Intelligent LM400-800 horizontal five-axis milling-turning compound machining center can realize five-axis synchronous linkage processing, and is a highly flexible machine tool integrating turning, milling, drilling, boring and tapping functions. The machine tool can meet the processing needs of high-precision and complex-shaped parts in the fields of aerospace, national defense, shipbuilding, railways, automobiles, printing, tools, energy and other general machinery.

　　Downstream demand helps the recovery of the machine tool industry

　　Under the influence of the epidemic, many industries have been greatly impacted. Among them, the machine tool industry is the basic equipment of the manufacturing industry, and the downturn in downstream industries has also brought a negative impact on the machine tool industry. With the end of the epidemic, the prosperity of China's manufacturing industry has rebounded, and downstream industries such as new energy vehicles and aerospace have broad prospects for development, laying the foundation for the recovery and development of the machine tool industry.

　　Some downstream industries of the machine tool industry

　　Automobile industry

　　The automobile industry is the largest downstream industry driving the growth of demand for machine tools. Among them, the rapid development of new energy vehicles in recent years has become its main force. The main performance is that with the intensification of enterprise competition, the trend of centralization and scale-up of the production process of auto parts is gradually increasing, and the demand for high-quality and high-tech auto parts continues to increase, thus giving birth to the transformation and upgrading of machine tool technology.

　　Many Chinese machine tool companies have seized the rapid development of new energy vehicles, strengthened cooperation with the field of new energy vehicle parts, and obtained very considerable economic benefits. At this exhibition, General Technology Group held a press conference on new energy vehicle solutions. Efficient and effective industry-wide chain solutions fully demonstrate the technical achievements and profound background in the processing of core parts such as body structure, chassis system, battery and drive system, and strongly support and promote the new energy vehicle industry in the "double carbon" Transformation and upgrading under the target.

　　Aerospace

　　Special equipment for aerospace and testing equipment is one of the key areas for the development of China's machine tool industry, and it is also an important growth point for the development of the machine tool industry in the future. The rapid development of aviation, aerospace, navigation and other equipment manufacturing industries has put forward higher requirements for CNC machining equipment, technology and testing equipment. The demand for high-precision machining of sophisticated and complex parts has forced China's CNC machine tools and machining centers to continuously improve the accuracy level of equipment, and continue to break through the technology of high-end machine tools.

　　construction machinery

　　In 2022, affected by the industry cycle, real estate downturn and the epidemic, many infrastructure projects will be postponed, leading to an overall decline in the construction machinery industry. Entering 2023, the Chinese government will carry out macro-control and accelerate the issuance of new local government bonds to help increase the operating rate of infrastructure projects. Relevant data show that from January to February 2023, the total investment in infrastructure (excluding electricity) will increase by 9.0% year-on-year, which means that infrastructure projects will be launched one by one, and the demand for road machinery, hoisting machinery, tunnel machinery and other equipment is expected to be between 2 and 2. The rise in the third quarter has driven the prosperity of construction machinery and other industries to continue to rise. As one of the important downstream fields of the machine tool industry, construction machinery is expected to drive the demand for corresponding machine tool equipment in the second half of the year, becoming the main driving force for the economic growth of the machine tool industry.

　　END

　　In 2022, the epidemic will recur and the international trade situation will remain severe. Chinese machine tool companies will struggle to move forward under the influence of sluggish demand in the downstream market and restrictions on technical barriers. China's machine tool industry market is still in a situation of "high-end loss, mid-end competition, and low-end civil war". Excellent companies may miss the opportunity to enter the high-end market. Although the current development path of Chinese machine tool enterprises is full of twists and turns, there are also opportunities in the twists and turns. In the post-epidemic era, under the background of the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, the invisible hands of the market and the country are jointly driving the growth of domestic demand for downstream high-end products, especially the rapid expansion of emerging downstream industries such as new energy vehicles and photovoltaics, driving the growth of machine tool equipment. Toward high-end development.

　　China's domestic machine tools are still in the adjustment stage. Domestic companies should firmly seize the opportunity of the transformation and recovery of the manufacturing industry to accumulate strength secretly, adjust corporate development strategies, optimize and upgrade product structure, and make a name for themselves in the prosperous period of the future machine tool market.