China's tool and hardware industry has been developing for more than 30 years. The manufacturing of tool products occupies a prominent position in the world and has become a big country in the production and sales of global tool products. Industry sales exceed 100 billion yuan, exports exceed 14 billion US dollars. From the perspective of in-depth industrial development, the tool and hardware industry has formed strong manufacturing ability and certain marketing ability after experiencing a period of rapid development. In the future, the industry will further expand to high-end, professional, high-quality areas, and upgrade to service-oriented manufacturing.
Manufacturing power position is stable
According to statistics, during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, the cumulative export volume of tools and hardware industry exceeded us $60 billion, and the cumulative import volume was nearly US $30 billion, with the average annual export volume maintaining a growth rate of over 10%. In 2011, the export of tools and hardware exceeded us $10 billion, making China the world's largest tool manufacturer and exporter.
At present, the output value of tools and hardware is more than 100 billion yuan. Wendeng Willy Tool Group Co., Ltd. is the world's largest manufacturer of adjustable wrench in the industry. In 2012, the company became the first enterprise recognized by the State as the enterprise Technology Center. Hebei Zhongbo Explosion-proof Tool Group is the world's largest explosion-proof tool manufacturer, and its product export accounts for nearly 80% of the international market. The company has been listed on the New Third Board in 2015. Jiangsu Tongrun Co., Ltd. is Asia's largest toolbox maker; Hangzhou Great Star Industrial Co.,Ltd is the largest exporter of tool products in Asia; Jiangsu Hongbao Co.,Ltd, Hangzhou Great Star Industrial Co.,Ltd and Jiangsu Tongrun Co.,Ltd are well-known listed companies in the industry at present. A number of tool enterprises are also planning to go public.
China hardware products association awarded tools category five industrial clusters, respectively is zhangjiagang cityof "China hardware town", jinhua tools "China hardware industry base", jiande "China tools hardware industry base" (screwdriver), city of linan "tools hardware production base in China (Lin)", yiqiao town "of" the hometown of hardware tools. From the development of tools and hardware industry cluster, the block regional effect is obviously driven, the number of enterprises in the cluster and the overall scale of the industry maintain a stable growth. The healthy operation of tools and hardware industry cluster has laid a solid foundation for the steady development of the industry.
In addition, in 2013, the tool industry selected 25 well-known enterprises in the industry, and through the "China International Tool Industry Development Summit forum", "Chinese tools independent brand series promotion activities" to release and promote to the domestic and foreign, famous brand selection activities for promoting the brand construction of Chinese high-end tool products has a milestone significance.
Industrial development is in the period of opportunity
At present, the development of traditional tool manufacturing countries in Europe and the United States is facing recession, and China's tool industry is developing towards specialization, clustering and high-end.
"Much starker choices-and graver consequences-in" period, the industry backbone enterprises to comprehensive adoption of advanced forging, mould processing and repair, and the numerical control machine tool transfer combination machine tools, controlled atmosphere heat treatment and high frequency induction heating, to transform traditional industries, environmental protection plating and other advanced technology, improve labor productivity, improve product quality, grade and added value, the transformation of the mode of development, Follow a path of innovative development featuring high standards, high quality and high efficiency.
At the same time, on the basis of strengthening exchanges at home and abroad, we should further promote the construction of the industry in manufacturing, sales, standards and testing, and enhance the voice of The Chinese tool industry in the global tool industry chain.
With the enhancement of national comprehensive strength, China's high-end manufacturing ---- such as high-speed rail manufacturing, has been recognized globally, which also opens a door for industrial grade tools and hardware products to obtain international recognition. The rise of China's manufacturing industry requires not only the application and export of high-end products, but also the overall improvement of the manufacturing level of industrial basic products. In addition, the country is vigorously promoting the "Belt and Road" for tools and hardware products to the emerging market has made the best channel paving.
In terms of domestic sales, with the increasing demand in domestic professional manufacturing and the gradual improvement of sales channel system, the situation of small sales and slow payment collection that enterprises used to worry about has also been greatly improved. Enterprises can either build their own domestic sales system, or cooperate with trade dealers with comprehensive strength to jointly develop the market. The stable domestic market will not only help enterprises resist overseas market risks effectively, but also bring more business opportunities for the development of enterprises. Without the foreign market, it is not big, and without the domestic market, it is unstable. The future development of tools and hardware industry still needs to maintain internal and external balance.
Upgrade to service manufacturing
Transformation and upgrading to service-oriented manufacturing will become the direction of future manufacturing development. Tool hardware is an industrial service product which provides basic support for the development of manufacturing industry, and it is also a typical service manufacturing development in hardware subdivision industry. At present, the backbone enterprises in the industry are no longer limited to simply providing after-sales service, but have realized service advance (starting from design and development), joint development and whole-process coverage, and are striving to complete the transformation and upgrading from production-oriented to service-oriented.
Although it has made a series of achievements in serving domestic high-end professional users, and some tool manufacturers have begun to provide products and services for high-speed railway construction, automobile maintenance, shipbuilding and other professional fields, the development of the industry is still facing difficulties and challenges. While insisting on pursuing high standard, high quality, high efficiency and high profit, tool manufacturers should also strengthen channel building and brand awareness, and strive to make domestic high-grade tools gain more recognition and influence.
"Much starker choices-and graver consequences-in" period, the tool hardware industry will continue to insist on the changing from extensive to intensive, from the labor-intensive to technology-intensive, from the quantity expansion to quality, by the low cost of low price to high value-added high profit margins to promote transformation, by OEM export primarily to gradually raise the proportion of independent brand exports, We should adopt the development philosophy of high standards, high quality and high efficiency, transform traditional industries with advanced technologies, increase investment in science and technology and research and development, and increase the added value of products, so as to truly transform from big to strong.