March 17, 2010, In Shanghai Laser and opto-electronic show taken place from March 16 to March 18, Wuhan Raycus (www.raycuslaser.com) introduced several pulsed or continuous fiber laser with out power range from 10W to 100W. The company is reported to have the ability to manufacture fiber laser value of 100million RMB each year.
As the first special high power fiber laser developer and manufacturer in mainland China, Raycus was founded by US fiber laser industry veteran Dr. Yan dapeng in year 2007. Yan and Huagong Laser, a subsidiary of Wuhan public company Huagong Tech, each owned 50% share of the company but Dr. Yan has the key power to control the company. From Raycus's website, Yan and Huagong laser invested 30million RMB in the company each in year 2007. Huagong laser was reported to sell her 32% share in Raycus for 63.36 million RMB last week. They still keep 18% share of Raycus.
From 1996 to 2007, Dr. Yan worked in several US universities and companies, including University of Illinois at Chicago, Wright State University, Zybron Company, Lasersharp Company and Nufern Company. From these work, he accumulated much experience on fiber laser, semiconductor laser package. He has 3 US patents. Before 1996, he worked in Nanjing Polytech University.
Among tens of mainland China's fiber laser companies, Raycus is the most successful one. But up to day, the company didn't announce any real orders. Compared to its international competitors like IPG, SPI, JDSU, they have no resource on doped fiber or pump laser manufacturing, and it is difficult for a start up company to enter this market. For this kind of product, I don’t think Raycus can copy OEM business model from other low end components manufactures.
According to some market report, the scale of international fiber laser market is reducing. Maybe it is a good time for companies like Raycus to accumulate resource during this hard time. Raycus still has some advantages like her good relationship with China's government, also there are more and more high power passive fiber component manufactures in China these years. If Raycus can really find a niche market in China, it will have very good potential.
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