Analysis of Market Demand of Welding Equipment Industry in China

With the growth of China's steel industry, electric welding machines continue to be booming, production and sales have increased significantly, labor productivity has been greatly improved, and the overall economic situation of the welding equipment industry has performed well, but profit growth has been relatively slow.

(1) The share of AC arc welding machine output in total output continued to decline, which was 37.41% of total output, which was a decrease of 6.42 percentage points from the same period of last year. However, output increased by 10.58% compared to the same period of last year, reaching 412 235 units.

(2) The proportion of DC arc welding machine output to total output continued to rise, which was 19.23% of total output, which was an increase of 8.43 percentage points over the same period of last year. Output increased by 117.62% compared to the same period of last year, reaching 211 920 units, a net increase. 106 425 units. The output of inverter, transistor, silicon rectifier, and thyristor DC arc welding machines increased by 150.34%, 147.33%, 62.99%, and 41.42% over the previous year, with a net increase of 91,310, 1022, 6,240, and 10 respectively. 439 sets.

(3) The proportion of automatic semi-automatic welding machines in total output decreased by 0.8 percentage point from the same period of last year to 31.13% of the total output. The output increased by 31.31% over the same period of last year, reaching 343 032 units, a net increase of 31 215 units. The output of MIG/MAG welders increased by 22.20% over the previous year, with a net increase of 33,088 units.

(4) The proportion of the output of the resistance welding machine to the total output decreased by 1.18 percentage points over the same period of last year, which was 7.55% of the total output. The output increased by 1.11% over the same period of the previous year, reaching 83,206 units. Among them, the output of welders decreased by 46.95% compared with the same period of last year, with a net decrease of 1785 units.

(5) Output of special, special and complete sets of welding equipment and other welding machines increased 16.05% over the same period of last year. Among them, CNC cutting machines, complete sets of welding equipment and plasma cutting machines.