1) The demand for tire machinery continues to increase
As far as the current domestic tire production capacity is concerned, it has far exceeded the domestic market demand, but it still has a large space for development:
The domestic automobile market has maintained a growth rate of 30% for many years in a row. Although it has declined in 2005, its annual growth rate is also above 20%. China's tire market has great potential. In addition to supporting new vehicles, with the rapid growth of the auto market, China's auto ownership will also grow rapidly, forming a huge update market. It is optimistic about China's future market. Major international tire brands have established production bases in China to expand their market competitiveness in the future.
Tires are labor-intensive high-tech industries, and China has abundant labor resources. Establishing production bases in China can effectively reduce production costs. Since the tires produced in China have strong competitiveness in the global market, there will be more tire exports, which is an important reason why the tire industry continues to expand production.
At present, China's tire product production capacity structure is not reasonable enough, there are too many conventional oblique rubber products, and the proportion of radial tires and all-steel load-carrying tires is far lower than that of developed countries. Therefore, relevant equipment will continue to be invested.
China's original rubber equipment is behind and there is an update of the equipment market. China's rubber products industry also uses a lot of old equipment. The original automation level of rubber equipment before 1996 is generally low, resulting in low production efficiency and product quality. These manufacturers all have the desire to update equipment.
2) The automation of rubber machinery is steadily increasing
The automation level of China's rubber machinery will steadily increase. The concrete manifestation is that the continuity of equipment is strengthened, not limited to stand-alone automation. At the same time, the use ratio of PLC, frequency converter, motion control and HMI on stand-alone equipment is increased. Taking the vulcanizing machine as an example, the automation components of the simple vulcanizing machine only account for 5% or less of the total cost. The advanced electrical vulcanizing machine plus PLC, sensors, photoelectric switches and other automation products account for 20% of the total cost. Above, the PLC used simultaneously increased from less than 64 points to more than 128 products.
As the rubber machinery market continues to expand and the level of automation of rubber machinery continues to increase, the size of the automation market for China's rubber machinery industry will continue to increase.
China's tire machinery industry automation market development forecast
More than 90% of the automation products market in the rubber machinery industry is on tire machinery, and this situation will not change in the short term. Therefore, we will focus on the development trend of the automation market in China's tire machinery industry. The main factor affecting the automation market is the scope and depth of use of automation products. The scope of use depends on the size of the industry. The depth of use depends on the level of automation of the equipment.