In the second quarter, the profitability prospects of Taiwan’s machine tool companies remain optimistic

Taiwan's machine tool companies in the second quarter increased their shipments from the first quarter, and prices of some products have increased. The profit in the second quarter was generally much better than that in the first quarter. Among them, the "Shanghai" second quarter profit after tax of 880 million yuan, quarterly increase of 12.37%; "Yadeke" second-quarter net profit after tax reached 389 million yuan, an increase of 16.8% quarterly. Recently, due to the slowdown of global economic growth, it has cast a shadow on the Taiwan machine tool industry. Most machine tool builders stated that the current order growth rate has slowed down compared to the first half of the year, but order volume has still grown from the same period of last year. At present, most machine tool plant orders have been received in the fourth quarter, and more businesses have indicated that orders have been fully filled in the second half of this year and are optimistic about operating income in the second half of the year. Zhuo Yongcai, chairman of "Shanghai", believes that the overall machine tool industry in Taiwan has returned to "normal" status as compared to last year's "overheating" in the first half of this year. The order status of high-end products such as gantry machine tools and combination machine tools is still quite hot, and ordinary low-end machine tools are flat. At present, the Chinese mainland market still accounts for the largest proportion of Taiwan's machine tool industry revenue, and machine tool companies have better orders this year than they did last year. Considering the large domestic market under the mainland's “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, many Taiwanese machine tool factories have also scaled up their mainland companies last year. Taiwanese companies such as Yadeke, Youjia, and Association Machine have set up factories in the mainland are expanding their presence. The production capacity of the mainland has led to further growth in its revenue. At the same time, due to the gradual labor shortage in the mainland, it will lead manufacturers to adopt more automated equipment such as machine tools, and Taiwan's machine tool manufacturers are still optimistic about their product market prospects. In terms of product trends, Taiwan's machine tool manufacturers believe that the current high-end machine tool orders for the development of new energy, aerospace, and petrochemical industries will continue to grow. The auto industry's demand for machine tools due to the recovery of U.S. auto industry boom has resulted in orders for this year The previous year has increased, and there is still room for growth. The mainland automobile industry has maintained a steady growth this year; the machine tools needed for the electronics industry are affected by the poor economic climate of the consumer electronics industry this year and the large-scale acquisition of equipment by most companies last year. This year, the number of orders for PCB drilling machines has declined compared to the previous year; the machine tools and equipment required for smart phone-related electronics factories still have the demand for new equipment this year. Therefore, the demand for precision machining equipment required by the mobile phone industry will increase significantly. Drive demand for high-end equipment such as gantry processing machines.