Fiber laser Marking Machine continue growth streak in 2014 laser market

Abstract:Fiber Laser Marking machine continue growth steak in 2014 laser market, also will have a huge increase in 2015 based on fiber lasers characteristics---available to different materials and marking by fine laser lines.

The global marketplace for industrial lasers and systems in 2014 was, to put the most positive spin on it, not the most stable since the end of the Great Recession of 2008/2009. Over the five-year period, sales have risen each year as economies in the developed and newly developing industrialized nations have risen. A slow start to 2014 was occasioned by a soft market in China—the world"s largest industrial laser market—a country in a period of change, as domestic manufacturers of products were advised to shift their sights to the global markets served by companies with domestic intellectual property products. A down market in China had immediate effects in Europe, a major exporter of laser products, which contributed to almost-recessionary problems in Europe.

Russia was anticipated to lead the non-aligned industrialized nations (the Brazil, Russia, India, and China [BRIC] region) in 2014 sales, but returned to a bully-on-the-block posture that turned the rest of the world"s majors against it with economic sanctions, and the other BRIC nations did not deliver: Brazil, still sorting out political unrest, was negative; India started a third-quarter turnaround led by auto sales, but too little too late; and China"s manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) went below the magic 50-percent level in November. A sudden downward shift in Germany (a global industrial laser export market leader) caused manufacturing to decline precipitously in the last months—still positive, but not enough to boost European Union (EU) financials.

Two of the brighter lights, manufacturing in the US and the UK, were cause for celebration in these countries, as the UK"s economic strength was a surprise to all and US manufacturers continued on an 18-month winning streak that depended on exports. The outlook for 2014-2015 was that the US industrial market"s key to growth in the laser sector is improving moderately—construction equipment, automotive, rail car production, commercial aerospace, and energy are up—however, the agricultural equipment market is facing a decline next year.

As 2014 came to a close, the general attitude among laser and equipment suppliers was that 2014 business recovered just enough to meet projections for a turnaround in growth, as order bookings for the 2015 backlog were barely being met.
The global market for industrial lasers

Irrespective of a mixed global manufacturing growth in 2014, industrial lasers, led by booming fiber laser sales, experienced a moderate 6-percent increase over 2013 revenues. In TABLE , total revenues for 2013 have been adjusted to reflect final calendar-year results reported by leading suppliers that were published early in 2014.

 
Industrial lasers integrated into processing systems, from simple marking systems to complex, multi-axis remote welding systems, are employed in a wide variety of manufacturing operations where laser technology allows users to improve in productivity and profitability. These systems have gained acceptance in key industries that were the driving force for manufacturing recovery from the depths of the 2008/2009 global recession: energy, transportation, agricultural machinery, aerospace, communications, medical devices, and fabricated metal products. And these industries are projected to continue to grow and expand in global markets through the second decade of the millennium. In short, industrial laser technology is aligned with growing markets. Since the recession, the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for industrial lasers has been 12.18 percent.

In 2014, industrial laser revenues grew by 6 percent—primarily as a result of 14-percent growth in the fiber laser sector, which since the recession has shown a CAGR of 33.58 percent. The fiber laser share of the total 2014 industrial laser market was 36.5 percent, up 8 percent from 2013, while the rest of the market grew only 2 percent.

Carbon dioxide (CO2) revenues managed to grow 2 percent even though they lost market share to high-power fiber lasers, which penetrated into the metal cutting sector by more than 30 percent. And solid-state lasers, losing market share to low-power fiber lasers for marking, dropped 3 percent; only the increased revenues from high-power disk lasers and ultrafast-pulse (UFP) lasers for micromachining kept the losses lower. In the Other category, high-power direct-diode and excimer lasers (growing in niche markets) showed a 5-percent revenue growth.

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