Lithium-ion battery industry as a driving force for growth and special equipment
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In recent years, rapid development of China’s battery industry. With BYD, as the power of God on behalf of a group of lithium-ion battery manufacturers and the rise of the rapid growth, China’s lithium-ion battery industry has high-speed growth. According to statistics, in recent years, China’s output of lithium-ion batteries to double the average annual rate of growth in 2003, lithium-ion batteries popular in domestic and foreign markets, export 314 million, more than 127 percent growth in 2002, due to the rapid growth of domestic demand, 2003 import lithium-ion battery 354 million, more than 143 percent growth in 2002. Experts predict that over the next few years, with the number of backbone enterprises continue to expand production scale, mobile phones and portable products such as notebook computers continued growth, China’s lithium-ion battery industry will remain more than 30% of the average annual growth rate.
China’s battery industry begun to take shape
In October last year, Global Sources for the supply of domestic battery to do a survey, the survey showed that, at present, China’s battery industry has been of considerable size. First of all, in the field of disposable batteries, China’s output has exceeded the United States and Japan, ranking first in the world. China’s Power Industry Association of the information shows that China’s one-time single-cell capacity of 19 billion, lithium batteries, nickel-cadmium batteries and nickel-metal hydride battery production were 2.2 billion, 10 million and about 500 million. Secondly, the field of rechargeable batteries in the second, China’s production is second only to Japan and South Korea, ranked third in the world, and occupy in the global market share of 12.5%. Judging from the number of manufacturers, China’s large and small, battery manufacturers have more than 2000, mainly located in Tianjin, Jiangsu Province, Shanghai, Zhejiang and other coastal areas of Guangdong Province. However, despite the many manufacturers, but the strength of the difference between manufacturers. Statistics show that 10 of our former battery factory and the production of more than one billion, close to the domestic battery output 1 / 4.
The increasingly fierce market competition, the Chinese battery makers actively involved in the research and development of new products to meet changing market demands, and many products have achieved commercial production. By the consumer electronics, especially portable electronic devices driven by rising demand, the domestic lithium-ion battery manufacturers are developing low-cost, high-capacity lithium polymer batteries and lithium batteries. Reports indicate that Wuhan Li Hing Battery for Bluetooth wireless headset and digital audio players designed a lithium coin cell batteries and micro-prism. Recently, the company also introduced a new type of lithium batteries for low temperature below -30 ° C environment. In addition to research and development of new products, lithium battery manufacturers are also actively expanding production capacity to meet the rapid growth trend. China’s Power Industry Association predicted that manufacturers will rush to get to China’s Li-ion battery production in the next few years to maintain growth momentum, particularly in 2006, China’s output of lithium batteries will be an annual rate of 30% of fast growth.
Lithium-ion battery market demand
Lithium-ion battery for its light weight, high capacity, high voltage, long life and no pollution has been growing rapidly. According to statistics, the global lithium-ion battery has exceeded sales of nickel-metal hydride and nickel cadmium batteries of the sum of the rapid promotion in the market. As the nickel-metal hydride batteries and nickel cadmium batteries gradually shrinking market, mobile phones, digital cameras, PDA and portable video cameras and other consumer and mobile electronics products, as well as the continued strength of lithium-ion power battery applications has tremendous potential for future lithium-ion battery market demand maintain considerable growth. Online prediction of new materials in 2003 -2006 the global lithium-ion battery production scale will reach a CAGR 23.2% compound growth rate of sales income will reach 12.25%; in 2007 -2010 in lithium-ion battery industry will enter a phase of relatively steady growth is expected to scale of production growth rate of 9.85% compound sales growth rate of 5.85% compound.
New materials online Guoqiang, chief researcher believes that further enhance the battery’s energy density and safety of environmental performance and reduce manufacturing costs, research and development of new electrode materials and the manufacture of thinner and lighter lithium-ion battery technology is the industry’s research and development direction in recent years technological progress achieved shows that the cost of lithium-ion batteries still have a considerable decline in the space.
Competition in the market, Li Guoqiang that with China and South Korea to low-cost strategy for rapid market competition, forcing Japan’s second-line a lot of lithium-ion battery manufacturers to stop expansion plans or the market gradually. On the other hand, a leading manufacturer in Japan and South Korea have carried out large-scale expansion in order to maintain a superior position, the scale of mass production in more than 15 million on the growing number of manufacturers. According to Tianjin Co., Ltd. introduced the battery power of God, since the beginning of this year, Tianjin power of God the steady growth of cell production from month to month. In January this year to April of battery products and high start-off to a good start, 4 months ago produced a total of more than 10 million batteries for the Motorola supply about three million, and achieved better economic benefits. In raising Motorola, Bird and other key customers and suppliers supply varieties on the basis of their plans this year to develop a number of multinational corporations large-scale customers.
Process equipment should attach importance to innovation
With the development of domestic battery, battery production equipment in China has been growing enterprises. At present, production support for secondary battery of special equipment more enterprises have more than a dozen. Beijing Seven Star Electronics Corp. CRE electronic automation equipment, general manager of Golden Road branch, said different secondary battery production enterprises of different aspects of technology services industry more refined division of labor. In his view, the industry product manual equipment, semi-automatic equipment, automation equipment, stand-alone products, fewer full-automatic production line manufacturing. The overall technological level is not high compared with foreign countries, product updates slower, generally low grade. ARBIN U.S. companies operating in China in Beijing on behalf of super-Yang also believes that the highly competitive domestic equipment, but only in the low-end products, high-end equipment such as battery test equipment, fuel cell test equipment, high-precision test equipment market by foreign products occupy. In his view, the domestic equipment technology is simple, a serious shortage of investment in research and development is the main reason.
Equipment, funding constraints have become less than lithium-ion batteries in China a major obstacle to industrial development. China’s lithium-ion batteries have been made to achieve the domestic lithium-ion battery market share accounted for 20% of the global market, and have achieved higher profits and the reason why This has been achieved mainly because of low raw materials and processing costs , the majority of Chinese-made battery operated manually, resulting in lower overall processing costs. Li-Quan Chen Chinese Academy of Engineering has pointed out that despite the small lithium-ion battery market in the low-end applications have achieved good results, but the Chinese-made lithium-ion batteries are faced with an important issue, that is, from low-end products used in mobile phones, the transition for high-end products such as notebook computer power supply. Only need a cell phone, and notebook and other high-end products require more than the same battery performance with the use of series-parallel connection. Small battery as a result of domestic production depends mainly on manual operation to complete, making the product difficult to achieve consistent performance. To solve this problem one way, that is, replacement of existing equipment. The production of high-tech products have to import high-tech equipment? Li-Quan Chen does not think so, for example, the use of mobile phone batteries as an example of a square steel, by technology limitations, has been previously imported from Japan in China, some domestic enterprises by changing the production process cleverly solved the technical problems. Practice has proved that China has with the design, processing semi-automation and automation equipment for lithium-ion battery capacity. Li-Quan Chen stressed that to develop lithium-ion battery industry, not only to solve technical problems, processes, equipment used should also pay attention to innovation.
Early domestic battery imperfect equipment, high cost of imported equipment, it is the continuous exploration of the special process greatly reduces the production costs of the batteries to enhance the competitiveness of the product for the development of China’s battery industry to create a new situation .
China’s Li-ion battery production and growth forecast
2000 -2003, China’s lithium-ion battery industries grew rapidly, with an average annual growth rate of more than 140% over the next few years, with BYD, BAK,邦凯, our God, Universal Guangyu, such as the continued expansion of production scale, China’s lithium-ion battery industry will remain more than 30% of the average annual growth rate.
The global lithium-polymer battery production and the growth rate of
Hailed as the next generation of lithium-ion battery Lithium-ion polymer battery (LiP) since 1999, production from Sony since the pace of development has been stronger than ordinary liquid lithium-ion batteries in 2002, polymer lithium-ion batteries have accounted for all lithium-ion battery market share of 7 percent.
Lithium-ion battery
Different direction based on the use of lithium-ion batteries can be broadly divided into portable electronic devices for power supply of small lithium-ion battery and provide an impetus for the transport of two types of lithium-ion battery power. The former have been more perfect technological development, industrial scale a huge concentration of production capacity in East Asia, an increasing trend to gather. The latter is still in the business of start-up phase, liquid packaging power lithium-ion rechargeable battery technology, the research indicates that the level of our country in the world. Electrode materials, however the level of R & D and industrialization of the relatively stagnant, more and more restricted the lithium-ion battery industry in China to further develop the bottleneck.
Fuel cell
Mainly concentrated in the fuel cell to provide power for the transport of hydrogen fuel cell research and to provide power for mobile devices of the methanol fuel cell research both sides, especially for mobile devices such as laptop computers provided by methanol fuel cell research, in recent years the rapid development of large-scale production is about to achieve. Constraints of large-scale practical application of fuel cells is still the bottleneck cost. Because it can effectively address the growing problem of traffic pollution, the use of hydrogen fuel for fuel cell vehicles practical application has been attached great importance to governments.
