In recent years, the laser industry presents the development trend of ultra fast laser technology such as fiber laser, picosecond, femtosecond, and ultraviolet laser processing. Laser precision micromachining has been applied more and more in new energy, information technology, biomedical, new materials, electronics, aerospace and other industries, including precision drilling, marking, grooving, surface texturing, surface modification, internal modification, dressing, cleaning, additive manufacturing and other processes. In addition, the concepts of intelligent manufacturing and new energy provide a good development environment for lasers.
As a new light source, laser has the characteristics of good directivity, high brightness, good monochromaticity and high energy density. Laser industry based on laser is developing rapidly in the world. Now it has been widely used in industrial production, communication, information processing, medical and health, military, cultural education and scientific research. According to statistics, from high-end optical fiber to common barcode scanners, the market value of laser related products and services is as high as trillions of dollars every year.
Since the first ruby laser was developed by Changchun Institute of Optics and precision machinery, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1961, laser technology in China has also experienced rapid development for 50 years. At present, laser products have occupied a large market share in China, and they have preliminary competitive strength with foreign companies in terms of product quality and performance.
According to the data of prospective industry research institute, from 2010 to 2016, China's laser industry as a whole maintained a steady growth trend, with a composite growth rate of 10.11%. As of 2016, the market scale of China's laser industry is about 23.6 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of about 8%.
Despite the rapid development of laser industry, high-end laser products are still occupied by multinational enterprises in the United States, Japan, Germany and other regions, and domestic enterprises mainly focus on low-end products. Taking the small and medium-sized power cutting machine market as an example, China's small and medium-sized laser cutting equipment industry is still in the early stage of growth, the domestic laser equipment manufacturing enterprises are generally small, and there are few laser equipment manufacturing enterprises with annual sales revenue of more than 100 million yuan.
First of all, the laser industry will maintain a rapid growth trend during the 13th Five Year Plan period. At present, China's laser industry is mainly used in laser processing, medical and other industries, of which scientific research and development accounted for 12%, material processing accounted for 32%, communication accounted for 12%, information accounted for 14%, medicine accounted for 20%, measurement and other fields accounted for 9% and 1%.
With the continuous expansion of China's laser application field and the increase of application depth, the future industry demand prospect is promising. It is estimated that the composite growth rate of the industry scale will be more than 10%. According to the conservative estimation of 10% compound growth rate, the market scale of China's laser industry will reach 46.9 billion yuan by 2023. Secondly, the most concrete embodiment of the integration of the old and the new in the development of China's laser industry is the organic combination of the laser industry and the traditional industry. As an advanced manufacturing technology, laser not only improves the development of the traditional industry, but also makes use of the advantages of the traditional industry to make the laser industry itself obtain a wide development space. It can be expected that in the future development direction of the laser industry, to realize the close combination of the laser industry and the traditional industry, and to transform the traditional industry with advanced laser manufacturing technology will be the road that China's laser industry should follow in the future.
Secondly, the basic mode of laser industry, from device manufacturing to OEM, to system integration, is developing towards the direction of large-scale production, product specialization and market globalization. M & A is prevalent in the laser industry, and the situation of "the big one always wins" in the laser industry will not change in the short term.
Finally, the development of laser industry will be more centralized. The competition of laser industry in China is obviously regional. In economically developed areas, the annual sales volume accounts for about 90% of the total laser product market in China.
