UW Laser (Shenzhen UW Laser Co., Ltd.) is a Shenzhen-based precision laser welding specialist listed company founded in 2005, supplying core welding equipment for power battery module/PACK assembly lines.
1. Company Overview
- Company name: Shenzhen UW Laser Co., Ltd., ticker 688518 (Shanghai STAR Market)
- Founded: 2005
- Headquarters: Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
- Business area: laser equipment, laser welding machines, automated turnkey equipment (power batteries, automotive manufacturing, 3C home appliances, consumer electronics, optical communications)
- Subsidiaries: numerous, including Jiangsu, Huizhou, Japan, Germany, USA, Hungary, and Hong Kong
2. History and Personnel
Founded in 2005, the company has grown over 20 years into a national-level high-tech enterprise and STAR Market-listed company focused on precision laser welding. It has built a collaborative relationship with a research team led by academician Niu Hanben, an optoelectronics expert at Shenzhen University, and since 2016 has expanded applications from laser welding technology to areas such as air-cooled and liquid-cooled thermal management systems for energy storage batteries.
The company operates large-scale production bases at the Liyang Zhongguancun Science & Technology Industrial Park in Jiangsu Province (site area 121.8 mu, building area 116,000 m²) and the Huizhou Zhongkai High-Tech Industrial Development Zone in Guangdong Province (established 2017, site area 65,400 m²). Its new-energy-vehicle division covers prismatic, pouch, and cylindrical cell module product lines.
3. Core Technology and Key Equipment
The company holds a range of laser series including YAG, fiber, composite, semiconductor, and blue-light lasers, and has developed in-house laser welding heads with output of 5W–6000W and wavelengths from 266nm (UV) to 2000nm. It also developed China’s first multi-wavelength coaxial composite welding head.
- Laser equipment and laser welding machines (YAG, fiber, composite, semiconductor, blue-light)
- Welding equipment for power battery module/PACK automatic assembly lines
- Automatic assembly line for energy storage battery modules (integrating cell inspection, module stacking, and CCD weld-position detection)
- Automated precision welding line for small pouch cells and coin cells for 3C electronics
4. Production Infrastructure and Quality Assurance
The company operates large-scale production bases in Liyang, Jiangsu and Huizhou, Guangdong, and holds 547 laser-welding-related patents (65 invention patents) and 288 software copyrights.
5. Delivery Track Record and Partnerships
The company states its customers include CATL, BYD, CALB, Gotion High-tech, EVE Energy, Sunwoda, and Farasis, as well as GAC, FAW, SAIC Volkswagen, SAIC-GM, Great Wall Motors, Toyota, Sony, Foxconn, and around 1,680 companies worldwide. It reports having cumulatively supplied more than 100,000 laser/welding machines and thousands of turnkey equipment sets globally.
6. Financial Status and Roadmap
As a company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange STAR Market (688518), its annual reports are publicly disclosed. Individual revenue/profit figures are not arbitrarily presented in this profile.
The company is expanding applications into the energy storage sector, including air-cooled/liquid-cooled thermal management systems for energy storage batteries, and is also diversifying its laser welding technology into the 3C electronics and semiconductor sectors.
This profile was compiled from publicly available sources including the company’s website (uwlaser.com), Zhihu research, and K1Wave data (k1wave.com); unverified figures and non-public information have not been arbitrarily included.