With the overall growth of the Chinese economy, the logistics and warehousing industries are developing rapidly, and the demand for shelves is becoming larger and larger. With the extensive use of shelves, professional and large-scale shelf manufacturers have emerged as the times require, leading to the professionalization and standardized production of shelves. Since the 1990s, there have been shelves in the country. In the late 1990s, several European shelf companies such as Schaefer, Dexion, and Stow began to enter China. They played a big role in promoting the development of the domestic shelf industry. . After 2000, domestic shelf companies have sprung up, and they have been developing for only about ten years. In this short decade, the number of shelf companies nationwide has grown more than 100, not including large and small. Distribution trading company. Cell culture dishes,Standard Cell Culture Dishes,35mm cell culture Dish,150 mm Cell Culture Dish, Topscien Instrument(Ningbo China)Co.,LTD , https://www.centrifugesupply.com
First, the analysis of the status quo of the domestic shelf industry:
Since there are no industry standards for shelf companies and the threshold for shelf manufacturing is low, in the decade of rapid economic development in China, a large number of shelf manufacturers have emerged, using different means to achieve better development, making the market competitive. The heat is getting worse. We can divide the national shelf manufacturers into three levels: high-end, mid-end and low-end. Among them, high-end shelf manufacturers have certain scale and standardized production, and they have followed their respective corporate standards and foreign related standards in terms of design, manufacturing, quality, installation, etc., and have established their own brands in the market; The annual output value of these companies is more than 100 million, and some even reach 300-500 million. For other mid-end shelf manufacturers, the annual output value is more than 50 million, and the quality standards are average. Others are transformed from metal products factories into shelf production plants with an annual output value of less than 50 million yuan. The standards in manufacturing processes and materials use are low, and the market is obtained by price. From the development in 2008, several large shelf factories have a tendency to expand and expand their manufacturing bases. They all try to use the scale effect to improve their overall comprehensive competitiveness. Some have already started in 2006 and 2007. Therefore, more and more enterprises are competing for market share, and production capacity is rapidly expanding, and market competition is extremely fierce. Especially since the first half of 2009, affected by the financial turmoil at the end of 2008, the entire demand market has shrunk, and several large shelf companies have fought fiercely for a limited number of projects in order to satisfy their remaining production capacity. During this period, the overall level of prices fell. Make the situation of shelf companies more difficult.
Second, the shelf market review in recent years:
1, 2008 market overview:
In recent years, the development of the shelf industry has been relatively fast. According to statistics, the annual growth rate of the shelf market during the period from 2005 to 2007 is more than 35%. In 2007, the output value of the whole industry was about 2.8-300 million, and the raw materials rose in 2008. The impact of the price, the fluctuation of the US dollar exchange rate, and the international financial tsunami, the growth rate of the whole industry has slowed down noticeably, and the overall growth rate has dropped to about 15%. The growth of several large shelf factories has slowed significantly, and some companies have even experienced negative growth. Since 2009, due to the impact of the big environment, the average gross output value of Chinese shelf companies has decreased significantly. Compared with the same period of last year, the average reduction is around 30%--40%.
2. Features of shelf products and projects:
Before 2000, customers' demand for shelves mainly stayed in simple storage, mostly used by foreign investment companies in China, while a large number of domestic and private enterprises in China have not begun to use such professional shelves, and the customer groups of shelves are compared. Narrow, more than 1 million at that time was a big project. Around 2003, with the rapid development of China's manufacturing industry, automobile industry, logistics industry, and professional third-party logistics enterprises, the scale of shelf projects has been continuously reflected, and products have been developed on a large scale and diversified, such as storage warehouses in large manufacturing industries. Large logistics distribution centers, automated warehouse systems, and more. Shelves are no longer a simple shelf for storing goods, but evolve into a comprehensive warehousing and logistics equipment system that combines diverse and complex functions. The products have evolved from ordinary storage functions to various racking systems with warehousing, logistics and sorting functions, such as large pallet racks, loft-style shelves, push-back racks, gravity racks, fluent racks, and mobile racks. Steel structure platforms, etc., and a combination of the above various types of products to achieve a certain warehousing and logistics function, at that time, three or five million projects have become commonplace. Since 2008, it has gradually become more and more large, and more than 10 million projects have been seen frequently. The shelves have been widely used in the production and circulation fields. As shown in the book distribution, distribution of food cold chain logistics, auto parts transfer warehouse, commercial distribution of fast moving consumer goods, commercial distribution of clothing, large-scale distribution of tobacco, etc., more than 10 million, even two Tens or 30 million shelf projects are unprecedented in scale. Today, the use of shelves has covered a wide range of foreign companies, private, state-owned and other industries. Moreover, with the further development of the economy, after solving the storage problems of the warehouse, there has gradually been a need to improve the management of the warehouse. Therefore, the demand for integrated warehousing solutions will become larger and larger, and the need for automation of warehousing management will increase. Especially in the field of commercial circulation, more warehousing and logistics system solutions will be required.
3. Development of automated three-dimensional storage shelves:
In recent years, the development of automated three-dimensional storage systems has been very rapid. At present, logistics system integrators are responsible for establishing warehouses. Of course, the automatic three-dimensional storage shelves are also provided by several large domestic shelf manufacturers, such as Jingxing. , Yinfei, Donglian, Liuwei, Shicang, Dinghu and so on. Among the contractors of the automated three-dimensional storage system, high-end foreign brands such as Dematic, Dafu, and Japanese and Taiwanese brands such as: Murata, Okamura, Formosa, Union, etc., the strongest domestic strength is Kun Boat, north and north. There are also: Nitto, today's international and so on. In 2008, a number of three-dimensional warehouses were built in China. For example, Master Kong has built three large-scale warehouses in the country, each with more than 40,000 items. There are also three-dimensional warehouses of several pharmaceutical companies that were built in early 2009. , as well as Bein and so on. The logistics industry has been listed as the tenth largest revitalization industry, and the country's investment in this area will increase in the future. Therefore, with the development of the economy, the development prospects of automated storage shelves are also very large.
4. Features of the shelf export market:
In recent years, the export of shelves has been growing rapidly. Domestic enterprises rely on their own advantages in the international market, as well as the safe payment of letters of credit, coupled with the intensification of competition in the domestic market, many companies are also committed to foreign countries. Customer development. However, since the beginning of 2008, with the sharp fall of the US dollar exchange rate, after the Spring Festival in 2008, from May to July and August, the rise of steel raw materials has been aggravated, which has had a great impact on the shelf export enterprises. Coupled with the impact of the international financial tsunami that began in October 2008 on China's real economy, the entire export market has been in a downturn since 2009, making the shelf enterprises that originally used exports as the main market seriously under-capacity, thus plunging into domestic sales projects. In competition.
Third, the development trend and prospects of China's storage shelf industry:
With the development of the modern warehousing and logistics industry, people have a deeper understanding of the value-added services provided by modern logistics. As the basic storage device in the logistics chain - the shelf, will follow the trend of the times, mainly reflected in the following aspects of development:
1. Shelf enterprises should provide more and more comprehensive and comprehensive warehousing and logistics plan planning and design;
The modern warehousing and logistics industry requires the use of modern technologies and means to improve the efficiency of logistics. This requires that shelf companies not only provide shelf products, but also provide professional warehousing solutions with professional technology from the perspective of users. This has become a service that provides added value to customers. In the fierce market competition, whoever creates greater customer value will be more likely to win. 2. Shelf enterprises should develop in a larger scale, starting from product standardization and new product development, and reducing production costs by scale effect;
Under the fierce price competition, enterprises must reduce costs, and the cost of shelves is 70% steel. The space for processing can be reduced. Only by continuously strengthening product research and development, we can develop new product models by fully saving materials. Reduce process manufacturing costs through continuous standardization of products.
Moreover, the fixed cost ratio of the cost of the factory is high, and the cost can be more shared only when the output is increased. Therefore, the large-scale production and standardized production will be the main direction for the shelf production enterprises to improve their comprehensive competitiveness.
3. Shelf companies not only provide storage shelf products, but also develop in the direction of providing a range of overall storage solutions.
At the beginning of the shelf business, it was mainly based on the provision of shelf products, and then the customer would ask how to use the shelves. Therefore, the shelf company is required to provide shelf layout and design solutions. However, after the customer uses the shelf, although it solves the storage problem, it will face a series of problems in warehouse management. It is hoped that the shelf enterprise will provide a complete set of warehouse operations including shelf labeling, barcode scanning, warehouse management software and so on. The plan will become a development direction for the shelf companies to become bigger and stronger.
4. Shelf companies will develop new types of storage equipment in specific industries such as cold chain, tobacco, medicine, etc., and strive to improve their comprehensive competitive advantages.
At present, the industries such as cold chain and medicine are all industries that the country is developing vigorously. In order to meet the needs of logistics development in these industries, shelf companies have also targeted the market and started to develop new storage devices suitable for these industries. For example, the application of a wide range of mobile shelves in cold storage, as well as the automated storage system of densely stored remote control shuttle cars, the automated three-dimensional warehouse widely used in the pharmaceutical industry, etc., are all aimed at improving the added value of products and enhancing their comprehensive competitive advantages.
For domestic shelf companies, although the situation in 2009 is grim, in order to seek survival and development, the domestic demand market has launched a fierce competition, but in the long run, the entire industry still has great development prospects. The current situation is domestic. The shelf companies have put forward higher requirements. Whoever can survive the economic winter in 2009, and cultivate their own internal strength, who will be more likely to win in the fierce competition.