Midea group purchase plan finally master the German robot company library CARDS. Yesterday, the company announcement said, library card company and executive management committee of the board of supervisors come to an agreement, the latter will recommend library card of the company's shareholders accept the offer from midea group.
On May 18th, midea group announced through its wholly owned foreign subsidiaries in all cash way, 115 euros per share offer, the German library card group shareholders launched a tender offer, to increase its stake in library card to more than 30% shares. If midea group to complete the library card of a 100% stake in acquisition, will pay about RMB 29.3 billion. Midea group is currently the company's second-largest shareholder, library card has a 13.7% stake. It only need to buy a 16.3% stake, can achieve the minimum target.
"Import" "export" imagine space is large
This agreement, puts forward the library card of beauty a number of commitments, to maintain its independence. Home appliance industry veteran observers, said liu buchen of SMW acquisition of library card has strategic significance of beauty, is also a good "advertising", the purpose of the technical innovation and publicity has everything.
To the power of beauty, after acquisition of library card how its localization, and exporting smart devices is also worth attention. Chairman of beauty hong-bo fang yesterday said: "will help the library card in robotics, automation and logistics and other industries to expand the lead, especially to speed up development in the Chinese market, to achieve accelerated growth."
Always label "made in China" gree, recently also emphasizes to introduce the foreign advanced technology. Gree of CNC machine tools, automation equipment has been leading in the domestic, but dong mingzhu, gree chairman said last month in a public class activities, such equipment at the core of the key components are still is to rely on "buy out", or a joint venture, "China's top CNC machine is imported, we have hundreds of gree digit-controlled lathe is imported, is now a collaborative era, is the era of internationalization, we buy other people's technology, let other people to buy our products."
Overall, in the developed countries of the industrial robot industry started earlier, mature technology, formed a complete system of industry chain and supporting facilities.
Four big families account for 60% of global market
According to the robot industry association statistics, China 2 year in a row, China has become the world's largest consumer market, industrial robot which guangdong share accounted for one-third of the country. Among them, the guangdong electrical appliances industry demand for intelligent robot applications mainly concentrated in the assembly, spraying, handling, etc., and guangdong automotive stamping, welding, painting, assembly process of the four major also have greater demand for robots.
As robots technology matures, the investment recovery period is shortened, will have more enterprise application of robot in guangdong province. Is expected by the end of 2017, the province more than 50% of the industrial enterprises above designated size to complete a new round of technological upgrading, about 1950 industrial enterprises above designated size robot to be used. According to the forecast by letter committee of guangdong province, the end of 2020, guangdong industrial robot has more than 300000 units, 250000 units, more than 2015 at least to maintain the market share of the country's more than one third; Robot density will reach 100 units/more than ten thousand people. Guangzhou only robot in the next five years will reach 100000 units.
Robot "four families"
The reporter understands, at present the market competition of the industrial robot in guangdong, mainly from three kinds of different enterprises: one is the guangdong local system integrator, most of the transition from manufacturing to or doing automation reconstruction. At present the system integrators are mainly concentrated in guangzhou of guangdong, shenzhen and dongguan is given priority to, systems integrators is becoming more and more.
The second is research and development institutions and robot manufacturers. With local guangzhou CNC, south of shenyang siasun represented. But compared to the system integration of the robot, domestic robot "earning power" worse some of this is due to the localization of key components is not really a lot of robot, cause the cost is higher than foreign counterparts, it is difficult to scale. The personage inside course of study points out, in order to speed reducer as an example, the domestic enterprises to buy the price of the reducer is nearly five times the price of foreign enterprises, servo motor, controller and other key component prices are also significantly higher than that of similar foreign products.
And the third is represented by the "big four" overseas manufacturers. The so-called four families, refers to the library card, Switzerland ABB, Germany Japan yaskawa and fanuc. The current global market share about 60% of the robot was dominated by four large family. Foreign companies are already hungry. Last year's "big four" has been overall layout of the guangdong market.
Learned, shunde is the province's first robot industry development demonstration area, Switzerland ABB and schindler to carry out technical cooperation, the German library card at the center of the sino-german industrial service area construction, kawasaki heavy industries of Japan and deep cooperation to set up the robot training center, yaskawa motor robot development investment of 1 billion yuan and beauty robot project... In addition, zhuhai is one of the leading pearl river west bank advanced equipment manufacturing industry area, ABB robot industrial park construction last year. And gree electric appliances, and cooperation to build a world-class ABB robot industry base.
