1747-DPS2 Leading enterprise Efte Intelligent Equipment Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as “Efte”) will gradually increase production capacity according to the continuous expansion of the market. Another leading company, Asclepion Robot Technology Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as “Asclepion card”), is building 45,000 square meters of asclepion, with a production capacity of more than 10,000 units.
And their upstream supplier, Wuhu Qingneng De Chuang Electronic Technology Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as “Qingneng De Chuang”), is building a new 25,000 square meter factory, and plans to move from the current leased 9,000 square meter factory to the new site in May this year.
At present, the domestic industrial robot market pattern has undergone great changes, and the domestic substitution rate has significantly increased.
Manufacturing market research institute MIR Rui industrial data show that in 2023, the overall growth rate of domestic industrial robots reached 28%, much higher than the overall market growth rate of industrial robots throughout the year, and the domestic market share exceeded 45% for the first time.
According to the latest statistics from the High-tech Industry Research Institute (GGII), the mark1747-DPS2 et share of domestic industrial robots in 2023 reached 52.45%, which for the first time achieved a counterweight to foreign brands in terms of sales volume.
In recent years, Efte has made efforts in the photovoltaic field, among which, the insert is a difficult process in photovoltaic production, before, the robot in the photovoltaic industry only the last insert process segment did not achieve domestic production, usually using imported high-end robots. The so-called insert is to insert dozens of silicon wafers into dozens of slots of the graphite boat, which requires the robot to be “accurate and stable”. The gap between the silicon wafers and the card slots in the graphite boat is as thin as hair, and a slight deviation will produce scratches on the surface of the silicon wafer and affect the yield. Efte gained the opportunity to compete with imported first-line brand rivals, and the R&D staff spent more than 40 days to continuously develop and iterate, and finally the robot reached the accuracy of ±0.03 mm and 0.42‰ fragment rate, which is comparable to the imported first-line brand competitors.
In 2023, the sales volume of Evert broke 10,000, reaching 12,000 units, and it broke into the top ten in the Chinese industrial robot market. At the same time, Tang Xin said, “the trend of manufacturing from automation to digitalization to intelligence has begun.”
In 2022, the installed capacity of industrial robots in China will account for more than 50% of the world’s total, ranking the world’s largest industrial robot market, and the density of manufacturing robots will reach 392 units / 10,000 people. International data company IDC predicts that by 2027, China’s manufacturing robot density will reach 650 units / 10,001747-DPS2 0 people.
In 2020, the asclepion card settled in Wuhu is the “single champion” in the field of welding robots, and has performed well in recent years: the output value of more than 40 million yuan in 2021, the output value of 60 million yuan in 2022, and the output value of more than 100 million yuan in 2023, and is expected to reach 150-160 million yuan this year.
“The three-year epidemic has accelerated the trend of machines replacing human labor.” Gao Pan, minister of the Communications department of Asclepion, believes that although the Chinese robot market is slowing down in 2023, in his view, demand has not yet been fully released, and the market for industrial robots will continue to expand in the next few years.
He also found that since the second half of last year, more and more customers from Russia, Southeast Asia and Europe and the United States have come to visit Wuhu. Last year, Asclepion received two sales requests from Southeast Asia. The next step is to develop more models and further improve after-sales service.
The fact that exports are greater than imports is another dimension of reversal.
International Federation of Robotics (IFR) data show that in 2023, China’s industrial robot exports hit a new high, reaching 118,300 units, while imports were only 82,400 units. After new energy vehicles, China’s industrial robots or set off the next round of sea peak.
Compared with other robot industrial parks in the country, the biggest feature of Wuhu is that the industrial chain is very complete, like a “hexagonal warrior”, Eft, asclepion and other machine localization rate of more than 90%, the local matching rate of more than 50%.
Wuhu robot industry was born out of Chery automotive equipment production line. In 2009, in order to reduce the maintenance cost of car building equipment, Efte and HIT cooperated to develop the first heavy-duty 165 kg spot welding robot in China.
Building ships in the 1950s, building cars in the 1990s, and building robots in the 21st century are based on Wuhu’s complete industrial categories – 39 of the country’s 42 industrial categories. This also means that industrial robots have a large number of application scenarios.
In 2013, Wuhu Robot Industrial Park was established, becoming the earliest national robot industrial park in China. The first phase of the industrial park is planned to be 5,000 mu, with 5 robot enterprises, hundreds of robots, and less than 400 million yuan of output value.
Wuhu City is no stranger to how to develop new industries with a point and chain. Tang Zhehui, managing partner of An Yong Hui, pointed out that the development of Wuhu’s automobile industry has certain reference significance: actively introduce industrial talents to solve the problem of talent shortage at one stroke; Implement active industrial integration measures, introduce key technologies, purchase core equipment, and carry out industrial upgrading; Vigorously develop independent research and development capabilities, and establish independent and controllable core technology advantages.
