Only joint out of the hydraulic components industry should get rid of individual combat

China's hydraulics industry must seek development. It cannot rely solely on its own individual combat. Instead, it needs to cooperate and unite. "Changsha Posen, the director of the China Hydraulic Pneumatic Seal Industry Association, said at the fourth member meeting of the China Machinery Industry Federation in 2012 that: "Chinese companies must learn Germany's Bosch Rexroth, it is like a 'pharmaceutical shop' , what the customer needs to give it to grasp what 'medicine'."

Industry growth rate 21%

Driven by the rapid development of the host and guided by a series of industrial policies, the liquid-gas-tight industry in China has experienced rapid growth in recent years.

According to incomplete statistics, in 2011 China's liquid and airtight industries achieved a total industrial output value of 77.271 billion yuan, an increase of 21%. The hydraulic industry completed 43.62 billion yuan, an increase of 18.47%; the pneumatic industry completed 15.046 billion yuan, an increase of 29.60%; sealed industry completed 18.605 billion yuan, an increase of 23.95%.

Of the 125 key contact enterprises in the liquid airtight industry, 64 were in the hydraulic industry, 6 in the hydraulics industry, 40 in the pneumatic industry, and 15 in the sealing industry. The comprehensive index of economic efficiency was 233.56, which was more than 226.44 in the same period of last year. The total industrial output value of these key linking enterprises was 33.424 billion yuan, an increase of 12.94% over the same period of last year. The output value of the hydraulic enterprise was 14.171 billion yuan, an increase of 7.72% over the same period of last year. The output value of the hydraulic enterprise was 533 million yuan, down 4.77% year-on-year; the output value of the pneumatic enterprise was 8.639 billion yuan, an increase of 25.12% over the previous year; the output value of the sealed enterprise was 7.320 billion yuan. 11.14% growth.

The development prospects of the liquid gas tight industry have also attracted a lot of investment both inside and outside the industry. According to incomplete statistics, in the last two years, the investment in the liquid gas-tight industry was not less than 30 billion yuan, of which the investment in hydraulics for construction machinery and other host industries accounted for about 50% of the total investment. Many well-known construction machinery companies, such as Sany Heavy Industry, Liugong, Longgong, Zoomlion, and Shandong Changlin, have invested or merged and restructured hydraulic companies.

Seeking high-end breakthroughs "China's current hydraulic excavators used in more than 20 tons of excavators are basically controlled in the hands of a company, that is, Japan's Kawasaki company." Every time talking about this matter, Sha Po-sen expression is dignified.

Domestically produced high-end hydraulic parts are subject to people's current conditions and have aroused national concern. In October 2011, after more than half a year's preparation, the “preparatory organization for the collaborative industrial platform for the industrialization and application of high-pressure hydraulic components and systems for construction machinery” was established. Under the guidance of the government, under the impetus of the industry, the work platform focused on the strengths of the two associations of China Construction Machinery Industry Association and China Hydraulic and Pneumatic Sealing Industry Association, taking hydraulic components as a breakthrough point, adopting host and accessories for production, research and use. In combination, the company will increase industry integration efforts and establish an effective docking platform, striving to break the dependence of the Chinese construction machinery industry on foreign hydraulic components in the next 3 to 5 years.

Thanks to the support of the country and the efforts of the industry, a number of key liquid-tight products and manufacturing technologies for key national projects and projects have achieved breakthroughs. According to Sha Baosen, a group of liquid gas-tight products with independent intellectual property rights, represented by high-performance engineering cylinders, nuclear power seals, etc., have reached the international advanced level in terms of their performance and production capacity, and have been recognized by high-end markets at home and abroad. In recent years, the industry’s products and technological achievements have won two national invention second prizes, four national science and technology progress awards, four, China Machinery Industry Science and Technology Award four. Zhejiang Tiansheng Sealing Co., Ltd. has performed outstandingly in breaking through high-end products. They used 8 years to master and overcome the key technologies of nuclear power seals. In the past, when nuclear power seals were imported from abroad, the price of a set of products was more than 7,000 yuan, and the price of natural products dropped to 20 million yuan. In addition, the inherent nuclear power sealing device is even higher than the advanced nuclear power sealing technology standards in foreign countries. Now it has successfully provided support for many nuclear power companies in China. Since then it has ended the situation that China's nuclear power seals have been monopolized by foreign countries for a long time and prices remain high. In addition, a large number of high-end hydraulic cylinders such as high-pressure hydraulic cylinders for construction machinery produced by Wuxi Hengli also completely replace imports, free from foreign restrictions.

The industry urgently needs to reorganize liquid-tight gas-impermeable enterprises, mostly small and medium-sized enterprises. The family-owned enterprises are more important than the family, and their capital and technical power are limited. Management is relatively backward. At present, domestic companies generally kill in the low-end market, product homogeneity, it is difficult to open the grade, so often fall into such a vicious circle: the more companies engage in price warfare products, the cheaper, the lower the profit, the lower the profit. The fewer the more you lack the ability to enter the high-end market.

"How to get out of this strange circle, only through the joint reorganization." Sha Po-sen's point is that regardless of the combination of Ye Hao, M & A worth mentioning, in short, to achieve reorganization. Because fluid transmission products, whether hydraulic, pneumatic or sealed, belong to the basic components, they have the characteristics of large quantity, wide surface, many varieties, and complete sets. It is definitely not feasible to rely on a single enterprise.

"Germany's Bosch Rexroth is a coalition company, establishes a central management form group, realizes a unified strategy, and makes good use of resources and group effects." Sha Po-sen said that while Parker and Eaton, these industry giants are large enterprise groups, many factories are under their jurisdiction. Each factory implements specialized production. As a capital-intensive and technology-intensive industry such as the fluid transmission industry, there are scales to be effective. Therefore, taking the road of joint reorganization is inevitable and is in line with the needs of the industry.

In accordance with this development concept, the China Hydraulic Pneumatic Sealing Industry Association has made many efforts in promoting the construction of industrial clusters in 2011. They actively cooperated with local governments and local associations and first cultivated three base demonstration bases for Fuxin Hydraulics, Zhangzhou Hydraulics and Fenghua Pneumatic. At the same time, on this basis, we will use typical routes to promote the construction of industrial clusters.

In general, however, there is still a problem of low industrial concentration and irrational product structure in China's liquid airtight industry. China's liquid airtight industry is currently only about 20% industrial concentration, most companies are small in scale, lack of R & D and innovation capabilities. In addition, the industry still lacks aircraft carriers and flagship enterprises, and lacks the ability to coordinate market control and compete with top foreign companies.

Therefore, in the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" development plan of the liquid airtight industry, it is clearly proposed that "multiple approaches shall be adopted to actively promote mergers and reorganizations and encourage powerful host companies and liquid airtight industry enterprises to jointly reorganize or acquire basic enterprises abroad. , to create the industry's aircraft carrier and flagship enterprises, strong backbone of the industry." In the latest development, Sha Baosen said in an interview that currently host and accessory companies have jointly developed research and development, joint research and development of production, teaching, research and development, and corporate joint research and development. A number of key enterprises in the industry that are expected to compete with international companies have begun to take shape.