Foreign machine tools for medical equipment

In recent years, as the country has made great efforts to improve public medical conditions, the medical device industry closely related to medical care has also been favored by the capital market in recent years. At a medical device industry development forum, Liu Diankui, deputy director of the Ministry of Health Planning Finance Department, said that the reform of the medical and health system has provided unprecedented opportunities and broad space for development for the domestic medical device industry. Foreign machine tool companies have made great profits in providing equipment for medical devices.

How large the Chinese market for medical devices in the market is, and perhaps even better, can be seen from the following comparative data: China's per capita medical device distribution is 5.46 U.S. dollars, while the average American medical device allocation is 309.77 U.S. dollars and Japan is 111.53 U.S. The US dollar and Europe are US$122.59; the output value of medicines and medical devices in foreign markets is 1:1, and the output value of Chinese medicine two years ago has exceeded 1.6 trillion yuan, and the medical device output value was only 120 billion yuan at that time.

According to the 2012 Medical Device Industry Analysis Report issued by the Medical Device Professional Committee, in the first half of 2012, China's medical device industry achieved a total sales revenue of 68.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20.27%. In the future, due to policy support, population structure, and consumption upgrades, etc. With various factors, it is predicted that China's medical devices will continue to grow rapidly in the next 5 to 10 years, and the industry as a whole will maintain a growth rate of more than 20%.

One fact that can be corroborated is that the implementation of the “medical reform plan” in the country for many years, the medical systems and units at all levels will rapidly develop toward the direction of “separation of medicines and medical care”, and hospitals and clinics at all levels will compensate for the original “15% increase in drug prices. The loss of the main operating income from sales will increase profits, and it will rush to purchase a large number of medical equipment. In particular, the state now emphasizes basic medical equipment for basic medical equipment, and strengthens provincial, municipal, and county-level disease control centers for trial capacity building, public health professional prevention and treatment institutions, and occupational health prevention and treatment institutions, and is equipped with necessary equipment. As a result, the demand for medical devices will increase at a geometric speed.

Considering that the imbalance in the distribution of medical resources in China has not been completely resolved, 70% of the country's rural population only accounts for 20% of medical device resources.

The comparison of these serious imbalances indicates that the demand for medical equipment market in China is still very large. Judging from the policy level, the current state is promoting the upgrading of industries, and medical devices are receiving more and more policy support as high value-added industries. Therefore, it is timely to tap into the potential of the medical device industry.

So the machine tool industry that provides equipment for the medical device industry can benefit from it?

Foreign capital is still the main force of the current market The staff of the China Medical Device Industry Association's Surgical Implant Committee told the reporter that the medical device industry and the machine tool manufacturing industry are both part of the equipment manufacturing industry. The difference is that: The basis of equipment manufacturing industry is to manufacture equipment for industrial and agricultural manufacturing, and the medical device industry is responsible for: first, manufacturing equipment and tools for medical and health institutions, and secondly, making functional replacement or maintenance accessories for the human body, including surgery. Implant products.

But another common point is that compared with foreign medical device companies, domestic medical device companies are still in a weak position. The point that can be corroborated is that the medical equipment products with a relatively high share of imports in China are mainly medium and high-end, especially in the fields of cardiac pacemakers and orthopaedic implanted medical devices. Foreign companies still occupy major markets.

In addition, as a key mid-to-high-end equipment tool for medical equipment manufacturing, foreign-based foreign-funded products are also used for humerus tray processing, hip joint processing, knee joint processing, processing of femoral caps and rods, and general-purpose transplants.

However, the domestic market for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular stents is an exception. At present, the domestic market for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular stents has reached 80%, and more than 95% of them are drug-eluting stents, creating the best record for the localization of medical devices, but the market for high-end orthopedic implants has not been so optimistic. High-end orthopaedic implant product market: Foreign-funded enterprises and imported products accounted for 56% of the Chinese market in 2009, and domestic products accounted for 44%.

In the area of ​​trauma products, 43% of the sales in the domestic market were captured by multinational corporations, and domestic companies accounted for 57%. This is the only category in the three major categories of orthopedic devices that are not dominated by foreign manufacturers. Domestic large-scale manufacturers of trauma products mainly include: Chuangsheng, Kanghui Medical, Shandong Weigao, Beijing Liberal, Tianjin Weiman, etc. Multinational companies mainly include Cindy, Johnson & Johnson, Stryker, and Xerox.

The core components rely on the introduction. Although there are more than 10,000 product registration statistics for medical device manufacturers in China, 95% of them are medical instrument equipment manufacturers. They have a large number of metal cutting and metal forming products. Of course, more manufacturers are Outsourcing processing methods are used. Therefore, among thousands of medical equipment manufacturing enterprises, there are only a few CNC sheet metal processing centers. There are not many production companies with perfect numerical control processing capabilities, especially a large number of high-end medical treatment. The core components of the equipment are introduced.

For example, GF AgieCharmilles of Switzerland fully demonstrated its strong strength in the processing of medical devices. Its five-axis linkage high-performance boring and milling machining center provides a flexible solution for multi-species and small-batch production in the medical industry. The multi-face machining process can be completed in a single clamping so that it can meet requirements including bone plates, femoral condyles, artificial Due to the processing requirements of various medical appliances such as joints, it has become one of the models with a very high market share in the global medical industry.

In addition, Switzerland’s Toners launched the Sigma20 machine specifically for the Chinese market. According to reports, this machine is particularly favored by the high-end medical orthopedic department, especially the spine orthopedic screw industry. Its processing efficiency is very high. It can sell about 10 units each year in China. .

The application of fast lasers in marking, cutting and welding in the field of medical technology has taken the lead in the industry.

Cutting tools play a vital role in the processing of precision medical devices that require particularly stringent specifications. Some foreign tool companies such as Sandvik Coromant and Kenneth have specialized in medical device business.

Domestic machine tool manufacturers also felt the opportunity for the development of booming medical devices. However, due to the late start, there was no special well-known performance in the field of precision manufacturing and deep processing. However, they have increased in injection molds such as syringes and blood collection needles. Development efforts.

Shenzhen Changhong Mould Technology Co., Ltd. is one of them. In 2006, the company began to cooperate with a US company that has made achievements in the field of medicine and biology and accumulated a lot of valuable experience. Now Changhong mold many products, syringes and test tubes, etc., are their own successful development and meet the other requirements.

However, in Changhong's machine configuration, there are machining centers, milling machines, electric discharge machines, wire cutting machines, grinding machines, lathes, rock drills, and mold clamping machines. If it is not counted in Taiwan, mainland China only accounts for about one-third of the total, and it is concentrated in the field of lathes and rock drills.

The staff of the Surgical Implant Committee stated that in the past two five-year plans, the state emphasized and supported our self-reliance in the development of core components, and that the key components of such equipment and equipment required strict and accurate processing guarantees, and therefore the future of CNC metal cutting and metal Forming machine tools, precision instrument machine tools, etc. have greater demand.

In addition, hundreds of medical implant manufacturers have strict requirements for metal cutting and metal forming and processing facilities due to the principle of product safety and reliability. They also have complete CNC machine tools (including CNC lathes, turning centers, etc.). There is more desire to purchase, which is the trend of the times.