Benefit from ECFA Taiwan's machine tool exports are expected to rise to third in the world

According to Taiwan’s “China Times,” the Taiwan region will be promoted to be the third largest machine tool exporter in the world in 2011. Thanks to the preferential tariffs of the two sides of the strait ECFA, the appreciation of the Japanese currency and the effect of bill transfer, Taiwan’s machine tool production capacity has increased. Orders undertaken by companies have now been queuing to the fourth quarter, and annual exports may exceed US$4 billion (approximately NT$116 billion). ), is expected to squeeze out the current third Italy.

According to Zhou Neng Chuan, deputy director of Taiwan Bureau of Industry “Industrial Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs”, FANUC, the largest machine tool manufacturer in the world, has been manufacturing machine tools in Taiwan in April this year and has already put into production. The annual output value is 10 billion yuan, which is bound to Drive the development of the machine tool industry chain in Taiwan.

Qiu Qiuhui, director of the Metals Machinery and Electrical Division of the “Industrial Bureau” stated that after the financial tsunami broke out, the production value of machine tools in Taiwan declined to 61.6 billion yuan in 2009. With the recovery of the economy and the benefit of ECFA, the machine tool output value in 2010 quickly returned to 117.4 billion yuan. At the same level, it ranks as the fifth largest production site and the fourth largest exporter in the world. The machine tool industry has performed brilliantly since 2011, and Qiu Qiuhui described it as “orders are full”. Order visibility has reached the fourth quarter. Machine tool exports can exceed US$1.9 billion in the first half of this year, and the annual export value is more than US$4 billion (116 billion). yuan).

Taiwan's "Ministry of Economic Affairs" Bureau of Industry statistics, in 2010 the world's largest machine tool export to Japan, the export value of 7.8 billion U.S. dollars; the second is Germany, the export value of 6.6 billion U.S. dollars; Italy is the third largest machine tool export, Exports amounted to 3.3 billion U.S. dollars; Taiwan ranked fourth, and exports were 3 billion U.S. dollars. Qiu Huihui pointed out that due to the advantages of the machine tool industry in Taiwan, the Japanese company Fanuc decided to increase NT$2 billion last year and set up a CNC lathe controller production line in Taiwan. This year, the production line for CNC lathe controllers was officially put into production in April this year due to FANUC’s presence in Taiwan. The market share of the controller is as high as 70%, and it is estimated that it will generate NT$ 10.8 billion worth of production each year.

Other companies such as OKUMA, KURAKI, and Hong Kong Commercial Machinery also invested NT$700 million, NT$200 million and NT$200 million, respectively, and they are expected to produce controllers, lathes or beds High-speed drilling for tooth center machines.

Qiu Huihui emphasized that Taiwanese industry players, including machine tool leaders Youjia and Shanghai Banking Technology, have also increased their investment by NT$ billion and RMB 10 billion in capacity expansion. According to statistics, in the first half of this year, the investment in optical machine tools reached NT$12.33 billion, an increase of 105.6% year-on-year; the investment in machinery and components also reached NT$20.77 billion, a year-on-year increase of 255.3%.