Top Plasma Cutting Machine Manufacturers
1. RILAND
Country: Chian
Founded: 2003
About the company:
is a national high-tech enterprise that has continuously focused on the research and development, manufacturing, sales and maintenance of inverter welding and cutting equipment, automated welding series products, welding accessories and protective equipment.
The company went public on the Growth Enterprise Market of Shenzhen Stock Exchange in December 2010 and is the domestic A-share listed company in the inverter welding equipment sector (stock code: 300154). The company currently has around 1,000 employees, including around 200 technicians.
The company has four main brands: Riland, Rilon, Hitronic and T&R (more than 100 models of these brands). Its main products include DC inverter manual arc welding machines, argon inverter arc welding machines, gas shielded semi-automatic inverter welding machines, inverter air plasma cutting machines, robotic welding system integration, automation welding, intelligent digital welding equipment, efficient welding systems, welding and cutting accessories and welding protective equipment.
The company's products have excellent quality and relatively high cost-effectiveness and are widely used in industries such as oil pipelines, chemicals, automobiles, shipbuilding, metal structures, boilers, power generation, nuclear energy, aviation, military, industrial installation and construction of bridges. .
As a technology-oriented company, the company's founder, Mr. Qiu Guang, developed an inverting field-effect transistor manual arc welding equipment as early as 1987. Then, he launched a series of products such as inverter argon arc welding, CO2 gas shielded welding equipment, inverter plasma cutting machines and pioneering 100kHz frequency inverter technology, achieving product intensification and light weight.
Since its registration in 2003, the company has always maintained its main competitive advantage of “technological innovation” and developed a strong R&D team and advanced R&D equipment.
In October 2009, the company jointly established the 'Digital Welding Laboratory' with the National Key Laboratory of Advanced Welding and Joining in the field of domestic welding.
The company's R&D center has been successively recognized as the enterprise innovation industrialization demonstration base of small and medium enterprises of Guangdong Province, Shenzhen Engineering Center and Baoan Open Research and Development Base. The company is a national standards development and formulation unit and participated in the development and modification of 21 national welding and cutting standards.
As of December 31, 2017, the company had 180 valid national patents, including 27 invention patents, 90 utility model patents and 63 design patents. It also holds 51 computer software copyrights.
The company's sales and service network covers more than 60 countries or regions on five continents and has nearly a hundred foreign customers or distributors and more than 2,000 domestic distributors.
2. Panasonic
Country: Japan
Founded: 1994
About the company:
The Panasonic Group is a global electronics manufacturer engaged in commercial activities such as production and sales of various electrical products. Its business activities in China involve research and development, manufacturing, sales, service, logistics and promotion.
Panasonic (China) Co., Ltd. was founded in 1994 and became wholly owned in 2002, mainly responsible for sales and after-sales service activities of consumer electronic products, systems, environment, components and other goods.
As an investment company in China, Panasonic (China) Co., Ltd. is also responsible for comprehensive and supporting activities such as talent development, finance, legal affairs, environmental protection, intellectual property and quality management. In January 2012, Panasonic (China) Co., Ltd. absorbed and merged with Panasonic Electric Works (China) Co., Ltd., further expanding its business scope.
In April 2019, Panasonic Group first established the regional trading company combining unified business and functional territories – China Northeast Asia Company. Headquartered in Beijing, this is the first overseas trading company establishment of the Panasonic Group.
China Northeast Asia Company will contribute to the field of “living space”, which integrates traditional strengths in consumer electronics and home equipment, and the field of “fresh food supply chain” centered on cold chains, from perspective of local demand in China.
3. TAYOR
Country: China
Founded: 1998
About the company:
was founded in 1998 and is a national specialized and innovative 'Small Giant' enterprise that integrates research and development, manufacturing, sales and service of welding machines. The company's products are widely used in areas of industrial manufacturing such as steel structures, heavy equipment, shipbuilding, pressure vessels, machinery, bridge construction, railway transportation, pipeline production and construction, and power generation.
The company has successively provided stable and reliable digital welding equipment and comprehensive welding technical support services for major projects and well-known enterprises such as the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and the China-Laos International Railway Canal under the 'Initiative' Belt and Road', China National Nuclear Corporation, Sichuan-Tibet Railway, Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) C919, Antarctic Taishan Station, China Merchants Group, Zhenhua Heavy Industries Group, Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding, Shanghai Disney Resort and Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center.
The company is entrepreneurial, bold and innovative. It has passed the $O management system certification and is now recognized as 'National Welding Machine Standardization Technical Committee Unit', 'National Welding Machine Industry Standards Review and Development Order Unit', 'Small National Giant Specialized and Innovative Enterprise', 'National Electrical Industry Standardization Demonstration Unit', 'Shanghai Small Giant Science and Technology Enterprise', 'Shanghai High-Tech Enterprise', 'Shanghai Small Giant Specialized and Innovative Enterprise' ' and 'Shanghai Enterprise Technical Center'.
The company has always adhered to its core values of “loyalty, responsibility, hard work and innovation”. Its vision is to become a “national first-class and internationally renowned” welding industry manufacturer. It adheres to the mission of 'providing users with general welding solutions', conveys the spirit of General Electric, promotes technological innovation, and is committed to the country's industrial development. With accumulation and precipitation of professional R&D processes, inheritance and innovation of excellent quality, the company persists in guarding its original intention with skill, seeking details, insisting on quality and using a rigorous attitude to delve into every inch of the product's texture to achieve excellence for its users.
4. Lincoln Electronics
Country: America
Founded: 1895
About the company:
Lincoln Electric is a global leader in the field of welding and cutting, focusing on the design, research and development, manufacturing of advanced arc welding solutions, automated welding, assembly and cutting systems, as well as plasma and flame cutting equipment. At the same time, Lincoln Electric® is also recognized worldwide in the brazing alloy industry.
As an industry-recognized “welding expert,” Lincoln Electric® helps customers improve their manufacturing capabilities and build a better world through its outstanding materials science, software development, automation engineering and applications expertise. . Lincoln Electric®'s headquarters are located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, with 56 production bases in 19 countries, and its distribution network and sales offices cover more than 160 countries worldwide.
Shanghai Lincoln Electric® Co., Ltd. is the production base of Lincoln China's cored wires and welding equipment. Since 2006, the cored wire product series has been continuously expanding to meet the different needs of carbon steel, low alloy steel, stainless steel and other materials. At the same time, the series of self-shielded wires is also constantly expanding. In 2006, Shanghai Lincoln Electric® established a robotic automation department to provide customers with comprehensive robotic welding solutions.
5. Hyperthermia
Country: America
Founded: 1968
About the company:
In 1968, Hypertherm started in a small two-car garage with a simple yet powerful business idea and a technological invention that would change the future of industrial cutting. Hypertherm founder Dick Couch and his colleague Bob Dean discovered a method that could form a narrower plasma arc capable of cutting metal with good speed and precision. Today, 50 years later, the entrepreneurial concept of customer supremacy and infinite innovation continues to drive Hypertherm's new product development.
This innovative spirit is one of the reasons Hypertherm's plasma, laser and waterjet cutting systems, software, motion controllers and consumables have always been ahead of their competitors in terms of cut quality, production efficiency and cost-effectiveness. .
Hypertherm is headquartered in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. With its innovative products, corporate culture and excellent customer experience, Hypertherm is full of enthusiasm to embrace even greater advancements. Hypertherm firmly believes that its employees, partners and innovative ideas can open up unlimited possibilities for industrial cutting.
To better serve Chinese customers, Hypertherm, Inc. established a wholly owned subsidiary called Hypertherm Trading (Shanghai) Company Limited in Shanghai, China in 2005. 'Hypertherm' is a registered trademark of the company. Hypertherm has always adhered to innovation, diligence and customer supremacy and is committed to designing advanced cutting solutions, thus becoming a world-class manufacturer in the field.
6. JÁSIC
Country: China
Founded: 2005
About the company:
(stock code: 300193) is a high-tech enterprise mainly engaged in the research, development, production and sales of inverter welding and cutting equipment. After years of development, Jasic has become a leading company in China's welding equipment industry. Its products are widely used in various fields such as shipbuilding, petrochemical construction, pipeline construction, bridge construction, civil construction, high-speed rail manufacturing and vehicle manufacturing.
The company is headquartered in Shenzhen and has three R&D centers located in Italy, the United States and Shenzhen. Its business covers more than 80 countries and regions around the world. With 260 patents, more than 200 R&D and laboratory employees, Jasic provides a continuous source of energy for the company's rapid development.
Inverter welding and cutting power source is the main component of inverter welding and cutting equipment. The inverter welding and cutting power source mainly applies power electronics technology to practical production, while the digital control system serves as the central control unit of the inverter welding and cutting power source. Good performance of the welding process is the ultimate goal of inverter welding and cutting power source design, and excellent industrial design, mechanical structure design and information processing technology are also closely related to us.
7. Aotai
Country: China
Founded: 1993
About the company:
is a national high-tech enterprise and a global industrial welding and cutting equipment manufacturer that provides users with industrial welding and cutting equipment, robotic welding systems, automated welding and cutting equipment, intelligent cloud welding systems and its solutions of application, serving various sectors such as high-speed rail, shipbuilding, machinery, metal structures, metallurgy and petrochemicals.
Since 1993, Aotai has focused on research and innovation in inverter technology and welding technology, and has a strong research and development team, including a national-local joint laboratory, a special automated welding machine and a robot laboratory, and an Internet of Things and cloud computational welding laboratory.
'Aotai' brand series of products is highly recognized by customers for its advanced technology, stable quality and excellent workmanship. Since 2005, Aotai inverter welding machines have always been a benchmark in the domestic industrial inverter welding machine market in terms of brand influence, market share and sales volume, far exceeding the industry's average development speed and development speed of main competitors.
In recent years, with the rise of intelligent manufacturing, Aotai's robotic welding system and automatic welding equipment have reached an advanced level in the research and manufacturing of large and medium-sized production lines in China and widely used in areas such as vehicles specials, construction engineering, steel structures, coal mining machinery and engineering machinery.
In the international market, Aotai's products, as representatives of Chinese industrial products, have been exported to more than 60 countries and regions around the world, including Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Spain, Australia, South Africa, India, Russia, Southeast Asia, South America and the Middle East.
8. HG
Country: China
Founded: 1958
About the company:
Shanghai Hugong Welding Group is an industrial equipment enterprise group that integrates research and development, production and investment. The group has more than 60 years of professional experience in researching and manufacturing welding and cutting equipment. It is a company listed on the main board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange and a well-known company in the welding equipment industry. The company mainly produces digital welding machines, high-power laser cutting machines, CNC plasma cutting machines and robotic systems.
Since its establishment in 1958, the company has accumulated core technologies in welding power sources, welding processes and cutting equipment over more than 60 years of development and has international competitiveness. Its products are sold to more than 110 countries and regions around the world.
9. Time
Country: China
Founded: 2001
About the company:
was founded in early 2001. It is a new joint-stock company started by TIME Group, together with Tsinghua Unigroup, Lenovo Group, Daheng Group, SITONG Group and other companies. The company mainly engages in the development, production and sales of inverter welding machines, large-scale welding equipment, specialized welding machines, CNC cutting machines and robotic arc welding systems.
On March 31, 2006, Beijing TIME High Technology Ltd. was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. On October 26, 2006, “Beijing TIME” became the first to raise funds in the third-party board market, successfully raising a desired amount, providing better opportunities and conditions for the company's rapid development.
TIME has a mobile postdoctoral station and more than 40 sales and service subsidiaries throughout China, covering a nationwide sales and after-sales service network.
Since 1993, TIME has been engaged in the development, production and sales of GBT inverter welding machines. All welding machines produced by the company are now IGBT inverter welding machines. Welding machine products have formed more than ten series and more than 70 product models.
In 2003, TIME adopted DSP digital technology in the domestic welding machine industry, occupying a high position in domestic welding machine technology. In October 2007, the company established Jinan TIME New Era Technology Co., Ltd., which is currently a wholly owned subsidiary of TIME, mainly engaged in the development, production and sales of large-scale welding equipment, specialized welding machines, robotic arc welding systems and CNC cutting machines. In 2013, TIME's third-generation TD series digital welding machine was launched on the market, taking the lead in domestic digital welding machine technology.
10. Kende
Country: China
Founded: 2007
About the company:
Zhejiang Kende Mechanical & Electrical Co., Ltd. (Kende) is one of the creators of urban dreams. Kende champions the artisanal spirit and focuses on lean production. Aiming to become a bigger and stronger global manufacturer of welding equipment, Kende is passionately promoting the “Made in China 2025” strategy.
In the beginning, Kende was just a small workshop with some simple, rudimentary equipment and a handful of talents. Now, Kende has three large-scale production bases, namely Luqiao, Pengjie and Linhai factories, with a total area of nearly 200,000 square meters, and the Pengjie factory covers an area of 80,000 square meters.
Kende has a modern and advanced office environment, advanced production equipment and a group of high-quality innovative technology R&D teams. Kende has become a world-renowned company and a model in the industry.
Kende's initial goals and philosophy were to do every little thing well and become an industry leader with expectations. After decades of exploration, Kende has always adhered to the artisanal spirit.
Over the years, Kende has focused on small products but has gained a large market share, becoming a strong player. Kende insists on the market philosophy of ensuring that equipment and instruments reach thousands of homes and persists in the pursuit of development through independent innovation and practical actions.
Currently, Kende has established national and provincial-level enterprise technology research and development centers, successfully carried out and completed two national torch plane projects, and won numerous science and technology project and new product awards. Kende holds nearly 200 national patents, utility model patents and industrial design patents. Currently, Kende has become a patent demonstration company and a company in the welding machine industry.
The KENDE trademark has become a well-known brand in the country, provinces, cities and industries. Kende is also a key player in drafting industry standards for welding machines and has participated in the formulation of 20 national and industry standards. Kende was the first to obtain the international quality management system certification S09001, the occupational health and safety management system certification OHSAS18001 and the environmental management system certification 1S014001.
Kende produces and exports almost 1.2 million electric welding machines, chargers and heaters every year, with an annual production capacity of up to 2 million devices. Kende is one of the companies that most produces and exports electric welding machines, chargers and heaters in the world.
The stability and reliability of product quality contribute to sustainable development. High quality products cannot be achieved without continuous efforts. Our collective efforts demonstrate our beliefs. Kende firmly believes that quality is the life of a company. By learning and adopting various quality management methods, Kende integrates quality management concepts into its corporate culture and implements quality management systems in actual production.
Kende strictly controls quality in all aspects, from raw material procurement to product delivery, conducts strict quality supervision and controls the quality of purchased raw materials. In the production process, Kende implements a first-piece quality inspection system to ensure the stability of product quality. Kende attaches great importance to production details, carries out spot checks on products before they leave the factory, and implements a vetting system to effectively prevent unqualified products from entering the market.
Kende continuously focuses on intelligent research and development and masters cutting-edge technology. Nowadays, Kende's products are sold all over the world and adopt international advanced technology.
Currently, Kende has many products, including various welding machines, such as manual arc welding machines, argon arc welding machines, gas shielded welding machines, automatic submerged arc welding machines, spot welding machines resistance machines, laser welding machines, laser cleaning machines, robotic welding systems and air plasma arc cutting machines. Various types of battery chargers, including 6V, 12V and 24V chargers. Various types of heaters, including electric heaters, natural gas heaters and fuel heaters.
Kende draws on and absorbs international advanced management concepts to ensure that the concept of quality as the life of a company is integrated into sales, production, quality control and R&D processes.
In 2003, Kende adopted the advanced Toyota Production System. In 2005, Kende introduced enterprise resource planning management systems and other management systems. In 2008, Kende introduced excellent performance evaluation models. Kende and his employees have made great progress. Kende's overall performance and capabilities have been greatly improved. A series of measures have greatly improved Kende's ability to adapt to external changes and established a solid foundation to strengthen its quality objectives.
Factors to Consider When Choosing a Manufacturer
Quality and Performance
When selecting a plasma cutting machine manufacturer, I consider the quality and performance of their products. This includes evaluating the cutting speed, accuracy and durability of the machine. I typically research online reviews and testimonials from other customers to gauge the manufacturer's reputation in the industry.
Price and value for money
Another significant factor for me is the price and value for money. I compare the cost of plasma cutting machines from different manufacturers to ensure I am getting a reliable product at a reasonable price. To do this, I look for offers and discounts, as well as considering the long-term operating costs of the machine.
Availability of Accessories and Consumables
As a consumer, I appreciate it when manufacturers offer a wide range of accessories and consumables for their plasma cutting machines. This ensures that I can easily find replacement parts or upgrade my machine as needed. Additionally, available accessories can expand the machine's capabilities, making it a more versatile investment.
Support and Customer Service
Before making a purchase, I want to be sure that the manufacturer I choose will provide excellent customer support and service. This includes how responsive they are to my questions, their level of technical knowledge, and whether they offer any training resources. Good customer support can save me time and frustration in the long run.
Warranty and after-sales services
Lastly, I value manufacturers that offer robust warranties and after-sales services. A comprehensive warranty gives me peace of mind knowing that my investment is protected against defects or manufacturing issues. Likewise, reliable after-sales services such as maintenance or repair can contribute to the longevity of my plasma cutting machine.
Advances in plasma cutting technology
In recent years, I have noticed significant advances in plasma cutting technology that have made the process faster, more accurate and of higher quality. One of the major improvements is the development of high definition plasma cutters. These machines offer better cut quality and edge definition, reducing secondary operations and improving overall productivity.
Another notable advancement is the incorporation of CNC (computer numerical control) technology. With CNC, I can easily automate my plasma cutting operations for better accuracy and repeatability. When using CNC, cutting patterns can be programmed, stored and recalled, which saves time and effort.
Additionally, I have seen considerable improvements in consumable technology. The electrodes, nozzles and other components used in plasma cutting have longer lifespans and can withstand higher cutting currents. This not only reduces the cost of replacing consumables, but also contributes to a more stable and consistent cutting process.
Fast cutting speed is another significant advancement in plasma cutting technology. Modern systems can cut metal several times faster than their predecessors. This allows me to complete my work faster and move on to the next project.
Additionally, I appreciate the advances in portability and ease of use. Many portable plasma cutting machines are now available, making them easy to transport and install in various locations. This has been particularly beneficial for those involved in field work and on-site cutting.
In short, advances in plasma cutting technology have greatly improved the speed, accuracy and overall quality of the process, ensuring better results for operators like me.
Conclusion
As a professional in the field, I have found that the top 10 plasma cutting machine manufacturers offer a variety of reliable and efficient products. These manufacturers have consistently demonstrated innovation and dedication to meeting their customers' needs.
Among these manufacturers, some stand out for their exceptional performance, durability and versatility. For example, Hypertherm, Lincoln Electric, and ESAB offer an impressive array of options for diverse applications and budgets. Other players of note include Miller Electric, Eastwood and Razorweld. They offer cost-effective solutions without compromising on quality and performance.
When selecting a plasma cutting machine, it is essential to consider factors such as cutting needs, desired performance level, and budget. By evaluating the offerings from each of these top manufacturers, I believe customers will be able to find a suitable plasma cutting machine to meet their needs.
In conclusion, the top 10 plasma cutting machine manufacturers represent the best in the industry, offering a wide range of high-quality, innovative products. As a professional in this field, I am confident that these companies will continue to excel, providing customers with exceptional plasma cutting solutions for many years to come.
