Green give birth to the hardware tool industry 10 major development trends

With the development of social economy, in recent years, China has become the world's largest metal production country, the world's largest hardware processing country and a large exporter. China has a vast market and consumption potential. In the "12th Five-Year Plan" period when green is becoming more and more profitable, energy-saving and intelligent products are in full swing, and the home cabinet hardware industry is showing new trends.

1. Increasing demand for hardware tools As China's status in the world continues to improve, more and more countries around the world are starting to use Chinese hardware products to stimulate the development of hardware products in China to a certain extent. In recent years, with the acceleration of the global economic integration process, the Chinese hardware tool processing industry has gradually become the main force of the world's hardware and tool industry. The demand for hardware tools in some developed countries, especially in Africa, the Middle East and other developing countries, is increasing at a rate of more than 10% per year. Hardware tools are labor-intensive industries. As a hometown of hardware, Yongkang has become a gathering place for hardware tools with low-cost traditional competitive advantages.

2. At the same time, the quality of hardware products will increase. At the same time, the requirements of the international market for China's hardware products will gradually evolve and change. There will be higher requirements for the quality, packaging and delivery period of Chinese products, and even gradually extend to the production process and product development. , Combining products with environmental protection, energy resources, and the human environment. The huge market and central position attraction will further attract the hardware manufacturing center of multinational companies to transfer to China. The integration with foreign companies will continue to enhance the quality and competitiveness of Chinese hardware products. While continuing to expand markets in the United States, Japan, and other traditional countries, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Russia, Europe, and Africa will also fully blossom.

3. Capital Expansion Intensified After China's accession to the WTO, under the global environment of competition, industrial capital has become an important theme for the industry to improve its competitiveness. In 2004, Supor and Vantage went on the market successively. Hongbao was also working hard for the listing. Wanhe's capital market operation will not stop due to the failure of restructuring with Yuemei. From a capital perspective, the current major feature is the expansion of capital.

4. Cooperation between enterprises In terms of increasing competition behavior, cooperation among resource sharing among enterprises is increasing. On the one hand, manufacturers have strengthened control over retail terminals, and strive to reduce sales cycles, save sales costs, and make sales channels professional. In the direction of development, the corporate sales model is developing in a direction that can adapt to multiple markets at the same time. On the other hand, the development trend of the sales industry has led to the continuous rise of the status of large-scale home appliance chain stores, increased control over the industry, and participation in the price competition that was previously dominated by manufacturers. Large retailers, with their broad market coverage, purchasing scale, and cost advantages, will increasingly control the production companies in terms of product pricing, payment, and delivery. As a subordinate small and medium-sized enterprise, it will be in a disadvantageous position in the competition under this trend.

5. Pay more attention to the user experience and humanization of the product. Developers pay attention to the application of the product, user needs, and consumer usage habits. Conduct extensive in-depth research on indoor locks in the existing market and combine feedback from senior industry customers such as door factories. According to the opinion, a new design has been made to meet the needs of the lock body function. Tool companies will pay more attention to user experience.

6. There is a wide variety of tool hardware styles that focus on the integration of personal tastes in industrial design and design. There are various types of tools and hardware. However, it is not uncommon for a variety of cultural connotations to be brought into the design concept from the very beginning of design.

Tools companies have been working on exploration and experimentation in this area since a few years ago, allowing culture and personality to be integrated into product design.

7. A new height of intelligent development The rise of biometrics technology applications and the development of smart locks and smart hardware will together bring tools and hardware applications to a new height. Home intelligence will likely enter the homes of ordinary people in the near future. Smart locks have a broader market prospect and smart locks will become popular products in the market.

8. Environmental Protection, Energy Saving, and Safety Environmental issues call for serious actions by more responsible producers. Whether products pass the certification of the environmental system and occupational health and safety system, whether to gradually adopt environmental protection plating technology, reduce the use of cyanide, whether to achieve the electroplating wastewater treatment and the discharge standards of the electroplating industry pollutants, are the manufacturers began to pay more attention to the issue.

9, home cabinet hardware concept extension future home cabinet will be used for meal production from the special kitchen, has a storage and storage function of the series of furniture, converted into storage storage, washing and cutting, cooking, frying and even dining, entertainment The concept of integrated furniture such as learning and working functions will expand the concept of home cabinet hardware. In the future, the hardware of home cabinets will also undergo tremendous changes.

10, bathroom hardware product concept will break through the traditional concept of bathroom hardware products as a symbol of modern luxury life supplies, it enters every aspect of people's lives. That is, it not only has the function of hygiene and cleanliness, but also includes health care function, appreciation function, and entertainment function. In terms of use function, bathroom hardware is more humanized.