At present, my country's electronic transformer/inductor products are still mainly at the medium and low level. The advantages we claimed in the past, namely the so-called abundant raw material resources, cheap labor, mature technology and huge domestic and foreign markets, have completely disappeared for high-performance products. If we cannot quickly break through the technology of high-end products, we will not be able to expand into new markets. Of course, we can still hold on to those traditional product positions with many varieties and models, many specifications and batches, large total volume and small batch production, but they can no longer form a new and strong competitive situation. Therefore, before we have conquered and mastered the mass production capacity of high-end products in general, it is difficult for the total market share of electronic transformers/inductors to have a fundamental breakthrough.
At present, the sharp increase in the price of raw materials for electronic transformers/inductors has made the operation of their enterprises even worse. The operating mechanism and scale of the vast majority of domestic electronic transformer/inductor enterprises in my country cannot withstand the pressure and impact brought by the price increase of raw materials. Some small-scale enterprises with insufficient capital turnover have stopped production and waited or closed down. There are also some electronic transformer/inductor workshops (branches) set up by complete machine enterprises for their own supporting and some workshop-style enterprises, which have also transferred mass-produced products to professional manufacturers. At present, they only carry out the development of some special components or make some electronic transformer/inductor samples for the new products of complete machine factories. According to incomplete statistics from industry organizations, my country's electronic transformer/inductor enterprises have been adjusted from nearly 4,000 in the mid-to-late 1990s to more than 2,000 at present. Of course, this adjustment caused by market competition is a practice of survival of the fittest, which has promoted the development and optimization of the industry to a certain extent.
In the business activities in recent years, many enterprises have personally experienced that the advantages and background conditions mentioned above are gradually disappearing. For a long time, my country's local electronic transformer/inductor enterprises have been small in scale, with little communication and exchange, and the system is very rigid. Technically, most of them are traditional products, and the magnetic cores are mostly silicon steel sheets, ferrites, and iron powder cores; the coils are all made of enameled copper wire and plastic skeletons, and other auxiliary materials such as paint, solder, and process equipment such as winding machines and dipping and baking equipment have not undergone revolutionary changes in essence. Since the "15th Five-Year Plan", some excellent electronic transformer/inductor enterprises have summarized their experience and lessons in their own business practices and studied the development trend of complete electronic products, combined with user needs, and have done a lot of work in the development of high-end products, such as "light, small, and thin" components, SMD components, and aluminum-to-copper raw materials; they have achieved certain results in improving the working efficiency, reliability, high efficiency and safety of components. In recent years, my country has made outstanding achievements in power ferrite materials, soft magnetic alloy materials, amorphous microcrystalline magnetic materials, and even nano-magnetic materials. The achievements of these essential materials for electronic transformers/inductors have created good prerequisites for the development and progress of the electronic transformer/inductor industry, and have laid a certain foundation for the development and production of high-end electronic transformers/inductors.
At present, our industry still lacks a strong organization and link to organize the resources within the industry, such as large professional scientific research units or core enterprises. Therefore, enterprises with certain strengths must base themselves on themselves, strive to innovate, and expand the market in their own unique ways.