In 2020, China’s Laser Market Will Reach to 10.91 Billion U.S. Dollars, Accounting for Over 60% of the Global Market
The laser industry in China is developing rapidly and has obvious competitive advantages. The upstream of the laser industry mainly includes laser materials and supporting components, the midstream is laser manufacturing, and the downstream is mainly laser equipment, application products, and consumer products. According to data released by Laser Focus World, China's share in the global laser market has also continued to increase, and in 2020, the laser market will be 10.91 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 66.12% of the global laser market.
Global Fiber Laser Sales Account for More Than Half of Industrial Lasers
According to the data released by Laser Focus World, the market size of industrial lasers has shown rapid growth in recent years, from US$2.866 billion in 2015 to US$5.157 billion in 2020.
Among them, fiber lasers are growing faster. The market size of fiber lasers has increased from US$1.168 billion in 2015 to US$2.717 billion in 2020. At the same time, the proportion of fiber lasers in industrial lasers has also increased from 2015. 40.8% of the lasers will increase to 52.68% in 2020, making it the industrial laser with the largest market share.
Fiber Laser Has Superior Performance and Is Known As the "Third-Generation Laser"Fiber lasers are lasers that use optical fibers as the working medium. The fiber laser has superior performance and is known as the "third-generation laser":
Because the fiber has the characteristics of small size, windability, low volume-to-area ratio, and high photoelectric conversion rate, the fiber laser has the advantages of compactness, intensiveness, good heat dissipation, photoelectricity and high conversion rate;
2. At the same time, the laser output from the fiber laser can be directly exported, so the fiber laser has high processing adaptability and can be adapted to processing applications in any space; 3. In terms of structure, there is no optical lens in the fiber laser resonant cavity. So it has the advantages of adjustment-free, maintenance-free, and high stability;
4. In addition, the beam quality of the fiber laser is keeping upgrading and the laser ability is becoming more superior in recent market.
Medium and Low Power Fiber Lasers Have Basically Completed the Localization Process, and The Domestic Production Ratio Is About 56%
China is the world's largest single laser market. According to the US "Industrial Laser Solutions" ("ILS") statistics, the industrial laser industry's annual revenue in 2020 will be approximately US$5.157 billion, a year-on-year increase of 2.42%. China is still the largest single market for industrial laser products, accounting for about one-third of the industrial (mainly fiber lasers), and the proportion is still increasing. Most industrial lasers are produced in China or exported to China.
In terms of fiber lasers, which account for more than half of industrial laser. The medium and low power fiber lasers have basically completed the process of localization at present. According to Laser Focus World data, the size of China's fiber laser market in 2020 will be approximately 1.38 billion U.S. dollars, of which the domestic proportion is about 56%, reaching 773 million U.S. dollars. Among them, Disen laser will increase from 12% in 2019 to 17% in 2020.
High-Power Fiber Lasers Will Become the Main Battlefield, and Localization Is Progressing Rapidly
With the innovation and improvement of domestic laser manufacturing technology, the energy efficiency of domestic high-power lasers has been significantly improved, and competition is gradually being launched in the high-power fiber laser market. From the perspective of fiber laser shipments, the shipments of fiber lasers of 1 kW to 3 kW, 3 kW to 6 kW, 6 kW to 10 kW, and more than 10 kW in 2020 will be 42,000, 15,400 and 9700 respectively, with a year-on-year increase of 33.3%, 25.2%, 98.0%, and 102.9%. High-power section fiber lasers (including ultra-high-power 10,000-watt level) products above 6kW’s market share is about 60%.
