Laser cleaning utilizes high-energy lasers to irradiate the surface of objects, instantly vaporizing or peeling away contaminants such as rust, paint, and oil, achieving non-contact, chemical-free, and green cleaning. Compared to traditional grinding, sandblasting, and chemical cleaning, laser cleaning produces no dust, no waste liquid, and has low noise, earning it the reputation of "the most promising green cleaning technology of the 21st century." Mainstream equipment is divided into pulsed lasers (suitable for precision cleaning) and continuous lasers (suitable for large-area industrial cleaning), with high-power continuous fiber lasers currently accounting for approximately 76% of the market share.
二. Market Size: A Hundred-Billion-Dollar Blue Ocean Accelerating its Release
According to QYResearch data, the global industrial laser cleaning service market reached $932 million in sales in 2025 and is projected to grow to $1.342 billion by 2032. The Chinese market is growing even more rapidly: by the end of 2025, the market size of high-power (≥500W) laser cleaning equipment was approximately 9.2 billion yuan, and the overall equipment market was approximately 10.7 billion yuan, with a compound annual growth rate of approximately 30.7% from 2021 to 2025. Industry insiders point out that the potential demand for laser cleaning in China exceeds 60 billion yuan, while the global potential demand is over 100 billion yuan, indicating a vast market space.
三. Accelerated Policy Support and Standards Development
The National 14th Five-Year Plan lists laser cleaning as a development direction for intelligent manufacturing, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology prioritizes "high-power laser cleaning complete sets of equipment" as a key area for breakthrough. Regarding standards development, the national standard "Green Manufacturing - Laser Surface Cleaning Technical Specification" (GB/T 41735-2022) was officially released in 2022. This standard was drafted by Wuhan Xiangming Laser Technology Co., Ltd. in conjunction with the China Aeronautical Integrated Technology Research Institute and other units, with the participation of well-known domestic universities and equipment integrators. As the leading unit for the national standard, Xiangming Laser has long been deeply involved in the laser cleaning field, ensuring that the standard has both theoretical depth and practical value. In 2025, the industry standard project "Laser Cleaning Machine Technical Specification" was launched in Wuhan, which will further standardize the entire process of equipment design, production, and testing, and powerfully promote the industrialization of laser cleaning.
四. Technological Evolution and Diverse Applications
Laser cleaning is evolving towards intelligence, high speed, and integration, deeply merging with AI vision and machine vision to achieve intelligent cleaning that is "visible, capable of judgment, and adaptive." In the new energy vehicle sector, laser cleaning has become a key process for pre-welding treatment of battery terminals and paint removal from motor copper wires, replacing over 80% of chemical cleaning processes. In shipbuilding, handheld laser rust removal reduces waste and noise by up to 90%. Taking Xiangming Laser as an example, its cleaning solutions have been applied on a large scale in the battery production lines of internationally renowned automakers such as Mercedes-Benz and BMW, achieving large-scale mass production of automated cleaning of electrophoretic coatings on power battery casings. Laser cleaning technology is also widely used in aerospace, rail transportation, power facilities, and cultural relic restoration.
五. Domestic Substitution: From Catching Up to Running Parallel
Domestic laser cleaning equipment is rapidly rising, with its domestic market share increasing to 54% in 2024. The localization rate of core components exceeds 85%, and the domestic market share of fiber lasers above 3kW has jumped from less than 20% in 2020 to 68%, with prices 30%-50% lower than imports. Domestic companies, represented by Raycus Laser, Han's Laser, HGLaser, and Xiangming Laser, have cumulatively delivered over 5,000 units, widely serving key industries such as rail transportation, automotive parts, and aerospace. Looking ahead, with increasingly stringent environmental regulations and the widespread adoption of new models such as "equipment + service," laser cleaning will become a crucial engine for promoting the green and intelligent transformation of China's manufacturing industry.
