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In the past 10 years, the global laser system has maintained a 7% annual growth rate, which in 2015 laser materials processing system market reached 11.8 billion US dollars, industrial laser 3.2 billion 3.7 times. In 2005, China's burning laser pointer materials processing system only about 3 billion US dollars of turnover, accounting for only 5% of the global market. In 2011, the domestic market grew to $ 1.8 billion. In 2015, to $ 2.8 billion, accounting for 24% of the global market. Since the 1990s, the United States in the field of industrial manufacturing created a new application of laser systems; since then 20 years, Europe will replace the United States as the industry leader; in 2015, China replaced Europe, the first time to become the largest laser system, the consumer market .
Those who have been concerned about the development of the laser industry should be remembered that Japan was almost the world's largest laser market in the 1980s, but then the market share fell and industrial productivity shifted from Japan to other countries with low labor costs. Of course, we do not want China to happen in the future. At present, the domestic laser material processing market prosperity, established in the domestic large and growing industrial base. As long as China's manufacturing growth rate is higher than other parts of the world, is expected to laser materials processing system demand will be higher than the average growth rate.
Fiber lasers dominate
In 2005, fiber lasers accounted for 37% of the global 20000mw laser materials processing market share, in addition, gas lasers accounted for 37%, high-capacity solid, semiconductor lasers accounted for 26%. The market share of fiber lasers has increased significantly over the past 10 years, from 4 percent in 2005 to 14 percent in 2010, up from 37 percent in 2015, to $ 3.2 billion. Over the past five years, fiber laser processing market has been the average annual growth rate of nearly 30%. Fiber laser in the field of rapid development of materials processing, thanks to the following three aspects: First, the application in the marking, the replacement of solid-state lasers; Second, in metal cutting, replacing the CO2 laser; Low-power laser welding, fiber lasers occupy a large market share. At the same time, the industrial laser market is still a large part of fiber lasers can not be involved, including micro-processing applications, because the fiber laser can not provide the required specific wavelength pulse. There are some ablation and structural processes and micro-lithography processing, a lot of non-metallic materials processing technology, more favored in long-wavelength CO2 lasers.
Fiber lasers market share can continue to grow long
According to market assessment, fiber lasers in the alternative to other lasers on the road will continue to make strides. Now, fiber lasers have dominated the laser marking market, but also in sheet metal cutting and high-power welding, but also significantly better than CO2 lasers. In the high-power laser cutting and welding market, fiber lasers will increasingly compete with disk and diode lasers, not just CO2 lasers. However, it should be emphasized that fiber lasers not only replace the solid-state lasers in the laser marking market, but also promote the low cost of industrial applications of lasers. Fiber lasers for marking have been developed to a low cost of several thousand dollars. In metal cutting, because the fiber laser is low in price, easy assembly, greatly reduces the overall cost of the system.
The use of fiber lasers has only just been realized in the field of laser material manufacturing, and now only plays a small role in replacing other types of lasers. Pulse fiber 500mw laser in the pulse welding and drilling applications more and more successful, and ultra-fast fiber lasers also began to get involved in the field of micro-processing. In view of these market developments and opportunities, the demand for fiber lasers is expected to continue to grow with the growth of the market, but the long-term growth rate may be lower than in the past to a certain extent.
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