China's road roller industry began in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. In the 1980s, it began to catch up. Luoyang Construction Machinery Factory and XCMG Construction Machinery Factory respectively introduced vibratory roller technology from Germany's Bomag and Sweden's Dynapac, and continued to use imported technology. Independent innovation, coupled with leapfrogging development in recent years, the road roller market is gradually maturing.

At present, traditional competitive enterprises represented by XCMG, YTO and Luojian have been formed; represented by Dynapac, Wirtgen Hummer, Bomag, Volvo (Acquired Ingersoll-Rand), Caterpillar and Sakai etc. Foreign brands; market-growth enterprises represented by Xi'an Sanming and Liugong; industry upstarts represented by Sany Heavy Industry and Zoomlion; and Changlin, Shantui, Dingsheng Tiangong, Yutong Heavy Industry, Shandong Market-developing enterprises such as Lincang etc. have entered the market of roller roads, and the market competition landscape of China's road roller has basically taken shape.

The performance of foreign brands has been tepid, but this year's performance is more eye-catching. From January to August, the market share of all foreign brands reached 8.00%, the highest level since 2006. Among them, the market share of Dynapac in January-August was 3.90%, while its market share in 2010 was only 2.23%, and the growth momentum performed well. Due to the squeeze of foreign brands, from January to August this year, the market share of the leading domestic roller compactors and second-tier companies fell. Analysts of China Construction Machinery Business Network believe that the road roller brand is well-established and that there is ample competition. In recent years, well-known overseas road machinery companies have set up factories in China, which poses a certain threat to the status of domestic enterprises. At present, neither the leading companies nor the second-tier brands have a firm market position, and domestic companies cannot take it lightly.

In the first eight months of this year, the single-wheel mechanical roller was still the most demanding one. Although the market share slightly decreased compared with last year, it still accounted for 53.64% of the market share. The most demanded single drum mechanical roller is 20t, with an average annual market share of about 30%; followed by 22t or more, and the market share from January to August 2011 was 18.39%.

The next most demanding model is the double drum compactor. The overall market share of the double drum compactors in January-August 2011 was 13.96%, of which the market share of over 13 tons was 6.93%.

The same is true for other models. In single-roller, full-hydraulic road rollers and tire-type road rollers, there is a large demand for large tonnage. China Construction Machinery Business Network analysts believe that road construction investment will also slow down during 2011-2012, but it will not be similar to the sharp decline in railway investment. The average annual investment of the 12th Five-Year Highway construction is expected to reach over RMB 1 trillion. As China's investment in infrastructure construction continues to increase, large-tonnage road rollers will still be favored by construction units due to their high-efficiency compaction effect, and the market situation is still promising. The dominant products of foreign brands are mainly concentrated on large-tonnage products. With the further intensification of market competition, the re-demarcation of the roller compactor market structure will become an indisputable fact.

Overall, China's road roller market has entered a relatively mature stage of steady development. In recent years, the manufacturing technology of domestic road rollers has advanced by leaps and bounds, and industrial design techniques, dynamic structural analysis technologies, intelligent control technologies, virtual manufacturing technologies, and virtual assembly technologies have been successfully introduced during the product development process, which has improved the roller under various conditions. Adaptability has promoted the technological development of domestic compaction machinery. The product configuration and parameters are not inferior to those of well-known foreign compaction machinery manufacturers. However, reliability, noise, cab sealability, and operating comfort are related to products of well-known foreign companies. There is still a big gap. The service life of domestic products is much lower than similar foreign products. In addition, the reliability of products has always been the fatal weakness of domestic products. China Construction Machinery Business Network analysts believe that if the problem of product durability and reliability issues is not improved, with the development of foreign brands, the competitiveness of domestic products will be affected.

The major manufacturers of roller compactors in the world, such as BMW, Dynapac, Wirtgen, and Caterpillar, have all spent a lot of manpower and material resources on research and development, and have intensified the computer simulation and grinding of the compaction process. The continuous operation of pressure control technology, assisted management of compaction engineering, vibration automatic amplitude control system, automatic slip control system, computer control electronic management system and industrial design technology application research, trying to occupy the leading position in the industry. China Construction Machinery Business Network analysts believe that: domestic investment in this area is far less than foreign, domestic compaction machinery design and ergonomics, is still in the imitation of foreign equipment design stage, technical strength and manufacturing capacity is poor, zero The rough design of components and manufacturing quality are limited to the implementation of functions and fail to form specialized mechanisms and systems. Therefore, it is difficult to develop compact mechanical products with their own characteristics as in foreign countries. Chinese road roller manufacturers still have a long way to go. To go.