As we all know, fiber green laser pointer has become one of the world’s major industrial lasers. Compared to semiconductor lasers, solid-state lasers, and CO2 lasers, fiber lasers account for more than 50% of the global industrial market.
In the past, plate punching and plasma cutting were mainly used in the field of plate processing. Among them, punching was used for thin plates, and ion cutting was used for thick plates. However, with the continuous development of fiber laser technology, fiber laser cutting has a huge impact on traditional processing technology and CO2 laser processing.
Compared with traditional punch processing, fiber laser is non-contact processing, which produces less stress and low noise, and can be used for batch processing of highly reflective materials such as aluminum and copper. The electro-optical conversion efficiency reaches 40%, the power consumption is only 1/3 of the CO2 laser, and the processing speed is increased by 2 to 3 times.
In just 5-6 years, fiber lasers have initiated a technological revolution in laser cutting with various technical advantages. Nowadays, the demand for fiber lasers is increasing, and the application fields have gradually begun to penetrate into basic fields such as automobiles, ships, and aerospace.
At present, the competition in the domestic fiber laser market has heated up. Foreign brands such as IPG, Rofin, Enna, Jenoptik, and SPI still occupy most of the domestic market. A rough estimate is about 3 billion yuan in sales, accounting for domestic fiber laser Two-thirds of the market, of which the IPG family exceeds 2.4 billion yuan. Although IPG currently has an absolute leading position in the global high-power fiber laser market, it will definitely not be the only IPG company in the future, because other laser industry giants have successfully entered the fiber green laser by merging some fiber laser companies. pointers field.
In 2016, the US Coherent company acquired ROFIN, a high-performance industrial laser light source and laser solution and device manufacturer, and ROFIN previously acquired the US special fiber manufacturer Nufern, semiconductor green laser pointers manufacturer DILAS, and Sweden’s Optoskand company specializing in fiber products. It can be seen that through mergers and acquisitions, Coherent has formed a good vertical integration capability.