The market for machine tool remanufacturing remains to be supported by policies and regulations

China is the world's largest machine tool consumer market. Now it has about 8 million machine tools. According to the internationally accepted 3% elimination rate, about 250,000 old machine tools are eliminated each year, and the total weight of metal is over 1.5 million tons. It is expected that during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, China will have 900,000 machine tools that need to be remanufactured.

According to industry insiders, after the old machine tool was remanufactured, most of the machine tool components could be refurbished and used, and the cost of remanufacturing was only 30% that of similar equipment. According to statistics, at present, China's machine tools with more than 10 years of service account for more than 60%. These machine tools may face major overhauls and even functional scrap or technical elimination in the next 5 to 10 years, resulting in a considerable amount of recyclable remanufacturing. Potential resources.

At the national symposium on industrialization of machine tools held in Wuhan recently, Wang Xiaoyang, deputy director of the comprehensive department of the Department of Energy Conservation and Comprehensive Utilization of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, stated: “China is a major consumer of electromechanical equipment manufacturing. Currently, remanufacturing is already unknown. The development of the industry is basically understood in the industry, but the understanding of remanufacturing by enterprises and users is still relatively shallow. Under the current environment of resource allocation in China's market, the key to the development of the remanufacturing industry lies in the market, and relevant departments should actively guide enterprises. Support industry development and expand market capacity in a short period of time."

The market needs to be standardized At present, the primary task of the industrialization of machine tool remanufacturing is to establish a regulated market. According to a reporter from China United Daily News, in the developed countries where the remanufacturing industry developed earlier, the remanufacturing of machine tools has been carried out for many years, and a relatively complete industrial chain has also been formed. Since 1991, the government has allocated a number of grants to support electromechanical remanufacturing to help companies and universities and research institutions carry out remanufacturing research. In recent years, Japan has also stepped up the remanufacturing of construction machinery, and at least 20 remanufacturing companies have become scale. About 30% of Japanese remanufactured construction machinery is exported to foreign countries.

However, the implementation of remanufacturing in our country is still relatively short, and it is mostly due to the maintenance and transformation of a single large-heavy machine tool, lack of process specifications, and the market is also slightly confused. Chen Chan, deputy general manager of Wuhan Huazhong Automation, told reporters: “Since there has been no policy definition and industry standard, the concept of remanufacturing by the market and users is still blurred, and users have doubts about remanufactured products, especially for sophisticated and complex machine tools. Whether or not the remanufactured product can achieve the expected results will have a reservation, which also makes the user's willingness to choose remanufacturing is not strong.” Because some users can not understand the difference between remanufactured products and new products, the service, after-sales and use of remanufactured products Concerns remain, coupled with the fact that the industry does not have uniform pricing standards and can easily create low-price competition in the market. The lower price cannot guarantee the investment of the project, and the quality of the remanufactured product is even more difficult to ensure the trust of the user.

For machine tool remanufacturing companies, individualized customer demands have caused the characteristics of remanufacturing business types and small batches, and it is difficult to form industrialization. In the process of remanufacturing, the disassembled parts are difficult to place and occupy a large space, which is not conducive to the secondary management of production, and also affects the investment of new equipment. For production companies such as Wuzhong and Chongqing Machine Tools, the contradiction between remanufacturing and new products has become increasingly apparent. Intense market competition has forced companies to invest more effort in new product development and production. Manufacturing products impact on their new products.

The logistics and taxation need to be supported by policies. The construction of the logistics system for scrap machinery in China is still in its infancy. There is no smooth channel for the recovery of old machine tools and sales of remanufactured machine tools. Professor Cao Huajun of Chongqing University has been paying attention to the machine tool remanufacturing industry for many years. He believes: “Europe and the United States have formed a relatively complete old logistics system, and the remanufacturers recycle used machines through various channels to assess value and redesign. After manufacturing, it will be marked with 'remanufacturing' and will be re-entered into the market, which will prevent most domestic users from worrying about the 'counterfeiting' of remanufactured products. In fact, domestic remanufactured product positioning, supervision, certification and other systems are still missing or unclear. And these policies have yet to be given more support from the government.” Zheng Guowei, Honorary Chairman of the China Electromechanical Equipment Manufacturing Repair and Transformation Technology Association (hereinafter referred to as “China Machine Vision Association”) proposed to establish a unified recycling of used machine tools in areas where industry is relatively concentrated. Stations are uniformly recovered and distributed to remanufacturing enterprises by the state.

In addition, on the one hand, because the old machine tools are not tax-deductible, sales of remanufactured machine tools must be subject to full value-added tax, and corporate taxation pressure is huge. On the other hand, sales can only calculate value-added parts, and the scale and output value of the company are difficult to expand. Machine tool remanufacturing enterprises generally believe that the relevant departments should accelerate the development of the machine tool remanufacturing industry from the perspective of circular economy, encourage machine tool manufacturers to enter the remanufacturing market, and provide clear preferential policy support as soon as possible, such as tax incentives and financial subsidies; standard machine tool remanufacturing The industry standards and technical standards, standardize the industry behavior; promote the remanufacturing of machine tool products and enterprise certification. More importantly, through the national level, the user’s acceptance of remanufactured machine tools is increased, so that the user has a clearer understanding of the feasibility of machine remanufacturing and the rationality of the project value, and improves the user’s judgment of the machine remanufacturing market.

Wei Liancheng, chairman of China Machine Vision Association, stated that CCS will also build a remanufacturing information exchange platform for enterprises through their own resource advantages, sharing market trends and policy development. In view of the production mode of machine tool remanufacturing, he emphasized that the industrialization of machine tool remanufacturing should be reflected in the output value rather than the output. The development experience of developed countries in Europe and America shows that if we can seize the post-market of machine tool remanufacturing, we will inevitably inject new vitality for the development of the machine tool industry. Judging from the current situation, the development of China's machine tool industry faces two major bottlenecks: First, can we correctly understand and understand the important value of machine tool remanufacturing in terms of ideological understanding, and we can understand the industrial significance and economic value of machine tool remanufacturing. Social benefits; second, whether it can promote the development of machine tool remanufacturing in the industrial development environment by providing corresponding supporting policies, and actively guiding enterprises to accelerate the development of remanufacturing businesses through fiscal and taxation policies.