Industrial robots' steel demand 'is booming again?

In 2020, under the impact of the global epidemic, China's economic growth strong MSC, GDP topped one hundred trillion yuan, including manufacturing industry recovery and immense, it obviously led to the vigorous development of the industrial robot industry, industrial robot production rapid rebound in 2020, broke through the 200000 mark for the first time reached 237000 units, up 19.1% from a year earlier.

Industrial robot industry development space is broad

Industrial robot is widely used in the industrial field of multi-joint manipulator or multi-degree of freedom of machine devices, with a certain degree of automaticity, can rely on their own power energy and control ability to achieve a variety of industrial processing and manufacturing functions.China's robot market is developing rapidly, accounting for about one third of the global market, and is also the largest industrial robot market in the world.Last year, the outbreak of the new crown epidemic brought new development opportunities to the industrial robot industry. The scale of China's industrial robot market broke through 6 billion US dollars at one stroke.

Under the influence of the epidemic, the domestic industrial robot industry has walked out of the trough in 2019 and resumed the high-growth mode, which is mainly due to two major boosters. The first is the acceleration of the process of replacing human labor with industrial robots under the influence of the epidemic.Since 2013, the number of people in China's manufacturing industry has been decreasing, while the labor cost has been rising year by year, leading to the continuous compression of the profit space of manufacturing enterprises.As the number of labor force in the manufacturing industry decreases and wages rise, it is an inevitable trend to improve the efficiency of the manufacturing industry, and efficient and flexible robots have become the only choice. The demand for robots to replace human labor is also gradually increasing. However, due to the impact of the epidemic, this process has been significantly accelerated.And as the transform and upgrade manufacturing technology and product updates faster speed, shorter product life cycle, market demand for personalized, at the same time to improve the flexibility of production system requirements, the future prospects of the development of wisdom factory continues to improve, "machine substitution" will become the next ten years China's manufacturing industry transformation and upgrading of the melody.

The second is that the substitution effect of localization of industrial robots is fermenting under the "double cycle" strategy.In recent years, domestic manufacturers have overcome some problems in the field of core parts, and the application degree of domestic core parts is constantly improving. After the automobile and 3C electronics industry, sanitary ware ceramics, metal processing, furniture and home appliances and other general industrial fields have begun to become the new market force of China's industrial robots.Industrial robots in emerging applications have also begun to gradually increase, the use density of industrial robots is also improving, China's industrial robot density in 2017 reached 97 units / 10,000 people, has exceeded the global average level, is expected to China's robot density in 2021 will exceed 130 units / 10,000 people, to reach the average level of developed countries.The transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry in the future is the only way to realize the transformation from Made in China to Intelligent Made in China. The foundation of the manufacturing industry upgrading lies in the popularization of automation, and the basic link of automation is the improvement of the penetration rate of industrial robots. Therefore, the development space of the industrial robot industry in the future is still broad.

Demand for steel used in industrial robots will flourish again

At present, the industrial robot has covered national economy 34 industry categories and 91 types of industry, the automobile, 3 c electronic, metal products, plastic and chemical products and other industries has been widely used, and with ever increasing performance, as well as a variety of application scenario is clear, the industrial robot industry shows a tendency of deepening and expanding application.Steel is one of the necessary raw materials for manufacturing industrial robots. The steel used is mainly concentrated in all kinds of stainless steel, special steel, high temperature steel, precision alloy and so on.Take the industrial manufacturing robot as an example, an industrial manufacturing robot consumes about 5 tons of steel, of which stainless steel and special steel steel demand is the largest.

Although China is the world's largest industrial robot market, there is still a large gap in the density of industrial robots in China compared with developed countries.According to IFR data statistics, in 2019 China's thousands of workers have only 187 units, the number of industrial robots and South Korea, Japan, Germany, the United States, Italy and other traditional manufacturing powerhouse data respectively, 855 units, 364 units, 346 units, 228 units and 212 units, compared with China's automation level still have great room to improve, the transformation and upgrade of manufacturing intelligent growing demand, industrial robot demand remains strong, predicts 2021, the industrial robots the size of the market in China will break through $7 billion, to break through $10 billion in 2023,With the rapid development and expansion of the industrial robot industry, the demand for high-end steel for industrial robots will flourish again.