Domestic crane market development trend

The development of polarization. The so-called "polarization" here refers to the crane's expansion in both large-scale and miniaturization. In terms of the rapid development of China's engineering machinery in recent years, China's crane industry is particularly leaps in the large-scale development. At the 2012 BMW Shanghai Show held last year, Zoomlion exhibited the world's largest tonnage all-terrain crane. At the same time, it also created the world's largest lifting capacity, the world's largest boom length, and the world's largest load capacity. Wait for three world records. The other two giants of construction machinery in China, Xugong and Sanyi, also launched crawler cranes with a lifting capacity of over 3,000 tons. China's construction machinery can be described as particularly noticeable in the development of large-scale cranes. The miniaturization trend is more reflected in foreign crane brands. Companies like Komatsu have introduced "mini" cranes, which combine road capacity with dedicated telescopic boom technology, and have the function of a tower crane that can be used to cross over rooftops and other obstacles.

The pace of smart technology is constantly advancing. With regard to the intelligence, technology, and even more humanization of cranes, it is also the case that foreign crane brands are ahead of China. With the development of society, there are more and more areas where cranes are used, and many spaces do not support the work of large cranes. Therefore, such a working environment requires the emergence of crane products with special skills or structures. For example, an indoor crane I once saw has a nine-section telescopic boom that can be hoisted in a confined environment. It can be said that the telescopic arm structure is continuously improved and the lifting performance of the machine is improved. Like Liebherr, the LTM1090/2 (90t) and LTM1160/2 (160t) AT products were introduced using oval-section main arms with a “Telematik” single-cylinder automatic telescopic system. This ovoid-sectioned main arm has a good effect in reducing the weight of the structure and improving the lifting performance.

The above two aspects are the overall development trend of cranes in recent years. As far as the specific situation of China is concerned, the development of the crane industry has presented a situation where various products go hand in hand. As an old product on the Chinese crane market, the mobile crane has been steadily moving forward. Taking Xugong Group as an example, the cranes it produces range from dozens of tons to hundreds of tons and thousands of tons. The pedigrees and varieties are getting better and better. During the visit to the country in March and April, the author discovered that Xugong truck cranes can be seen everywhere. It can be said that in China's daily life and construction, the application of truck cranes is also quite extensive.

In addition, China has made a major breakthrough in the classification of cranes - large tower cranes. Especially in recent years, with the construction of large-scale power plants, large-scale bridges, super high-rise buildings, shipbuilding, nuclear power plants and other key projects in China, large-scale and super-heavy cranes with lifting moments of over 2500 kNm have become more widely used. , The annual demand for large and super large cranes is expected to exceed 1,000 units. After entering 2013, the appearance of the new leading collective of China, the convening of the two sessions of China, and the implementation of the strategy for urbanization have objectively enabled the tower crane industry to usher in a climax of development. It can be said that thanks to the acceleration of China's urbanization process, the Chinese tower crane market has ushered in a period of rapid growth. At present, China has more than 400 tower crane manufacturers, which can produce more than 100 models of tower cranes and realize sales of 100,000 units each year.

China's tower crane industry from scratch, from small to large, and gradually formed a more complete system and a relatively complete spectrum, the tower crane industry has become China's fastest growing construction machinery industry. At present, there are more than 400 companies that have obtained tower crane manufacturing licenses in China, mainly in Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Northeast China and Sichuan and Chongqing, among which only Shandong tower crane manufacturers exceed 150. In the past, due to the lag in the development of technology and brand construction in the entire industry, tower cranes have a much lower position in the construction machinery industry than those in excavators and concrete machinery.

In the face of negative growth in the construction machinery industry in China last year, the tower crane market has successfully avoided this fate. This is mainly due to the credit for the market structure of the tower cranes. Because the unit price is usually high, it largely hinders the demand for small purchasing power. These demands are instead satisfied through leasing, making the tower crane market in China actually a reality. Purchase and lease are two parts.

Under such a market situation, how should companies face it? “In the meantime, our company still needs to take the time to lay a good foundation, improve its internal strength, and wait for a good market before it can seize opportunities.” Li Jing, executive vice chairman of the China Heavy Machinery Industry Association recently in the China Heavy Machinery Industry Association 6 The second member representative meeting and the council said. It seems that continuing to upgrade the tower crane to represent the technological content of crane products is the rational method for setting up its own brand of crane products in China.

However, although the domestic market situation in the past year was not very good, exports continued to maintain a good trend. Among them, traditional export products still maintained market share and steadily increased. Large-scale mechanical equipment, metallurgical machinery, mining machinery, large-scale bridges, gantry cranes, bulk material transport equipment and spare parts are exported to all regions except Europe. This includes the tower crane.

It can be imagined that the construction of large-scale infrastructure will continue to be implemented in the future, including railway transportation, construction, energy and water conservancy, etc. Since the beginning of this year, urbanization throughout the country has been gradually unfolded and accelerated, and it has also provided the development of China’s crane industry. A broader prospect of miscellaneousness. It can be said that the prospects of the Chinese crane market are clear.