More than ten years ago, China's excavator market had almost identical foreign brands. Today, among the top ten sales, ethnic brands account for half of the total sales, and 31 have been ranked first in the country for seven years. But for a long time, domestic excavators are always facing the bottleneck of developing core components and relying on imports. Recently, China's construction machinery and commerce network from the Weichai Power Limited by Share Ltd vice president Li Shaohua was informed that the domestic excavator's lock throat pain will be expected to be cracked.
In April, China's excavator sales reached 26500 units, a record high of second over the same period. The hot market has buzzed the excavator production enterprises, and "guarantee supply" has become a hot word. In the face of the hot market, the manufacturers of excavators are mixed with joy. The market is rising again, but the supply of core parts such as hydraulic parts and engines is seriously insufficient.
The core technology of manufacturing industry represents the technological strength of a country and the future of an industry. Weichai, as a leading enterprise of China's internal combustion engine, has provided 70 years of independent innovation for China's construction machinery industry. Among them, more than 3 tons of loaders, 80% equipped with Weichai engine. So far, apart from the excavator, Weichai business has covered the entire construction machinery.
As a supporting enterprise, Weichai can quickly perceive the ups and downs of the construction machinery market in more than a month. With the strong rebound in the past two years, Weichai engineering machinery sector increased by nearly 60% over the past 1-4 months, the fastest growing sector in every sector.
Excavators are important products in the field of construction machinery. Six or seven years ago, Weichai started to layout the power system for the excavator. Over the years, a great deal of research has been done on the needs, concerns and working conditions of excavators, as well as the distinction with other traditional industries. Meanwhile, Linde hydraulics was acquired in 2012 to solve the problem of long-term dependence on imports of China's core components. Therefore, Weichai will not only provide engines for excavators, but also a full set of power system solutions for hydraulic and engine.
According to Li Shaohua, the core competitiveness and brand appeal of Weichai is "reliable and durable". Under this premise, it takes into account the economy, power and comfort, is responsible for the whole life cycle of the product, and makes the product with high cost performance. It is the responsibility of Weichai development to guide the healthy development of the industry.
After years of integration, the Weichai engine has been in full cooperation with Linde hydraulics, and the two sides jointly developed a power system scheme suitable for excavators, and completed several hundreds of tests on the mountain regenerator excavator. After a few years' trial, there was no problem. This brought more confidence to Weichai's entry into the excavator.
Like the past earthwork and pavement machinery and other products, users from the initial choice of foreign brands to domestic brands, this purchase awareness needs to change for a certain time. With the rise of national brands, localization will be the trend of the times. Weichai has made preparations before take-off, waiting for the draught only.
Recently, the National IV emission standards of non road mobile machinery enter the countdown. For the whole machine production enterprises, they will switch to the new standard and face the overall upgrading of the power system. "The upgrading of the emission standards is a matter of time. For Weichai, it is our duty to respond to the call of the state and to be responsible for the society. We must go ahead!" Li Shaohua stressed.
At present, Weichai is carrying out in-depth exchanges with several excavator manufacturers in the industry and will enter the field at an appropriate time. At that time, the development of Chinese excavators will completely shake off the situation of being controlled by others and usher in a truly independent era.
