Hardware refers to the iron, steel, aluminum and other metal after forging, rolling, cutting, and other physical processing devices made of metal. In accordance with end uses of products are classified tools can be divided into hardware, architectural hardware, lock security, kitchen hardware, daily hardware, home hardware and accessories and hardware types.
Part of the daily-use hardware products are essential tools for people's lives, consumer goods, most of the other part of the hardware not the final consumer, but as complementary industrial manufacturing products, semi-finished products and production processes used tools.
Because China's abundant raw materials resources and low labor costs, China has become the world's largest hardware manufacturing and trading states. According to the China National Hardware Association statistics, China's hardware industry, the sale of about 60% of exports, exports to grow steadily. China's import and export of metal products in 2005 amounted to 38.597 billion U.S. dollars, year on year increase of 23.63%, of which exports amounted to 30.512 billion U.S. dollars, year on year increase of 26.44%; the same time, tools and hardware products in the past three years exports reached 5.342 billion U.S. dollars, respectively, 55.29 billion U.S. dollars, 6.671 billion U.S. dollars, with an annual growth rate exceeding 10%.
Source: "China's hardware and the kitchen," 2006 No. 4, the company prospectus
Differentiation of high-end enterprise to increase the formation of industry
Hardware and tools, the world's major production and trade patterns of countries located in Europe, America, Asia and across three continents, forming a developed and newly industrialized countries of the pattern of competition. Which developed countries produce high-end hardware products hardware products, middle and low base metal products are mainly in Asia.
There are three kinds of metal products manufacturing business model: OEM (ORIGINALEQUIPMENTMANUFACTURE): original equipment manufacturers; ODM (ORIGINALDESIGNMANUFACTURE): original design manufacturer; OBM (ORIGINALBRANDMANUFACTURE): the original brand manufacturer.
Hardware industry has a long history, belong to certain technical content of the labor-intensive enterprises in the context of booming demand and supply them to increase their employment rate and a significant effect on the local economic benefits, so after a long internal development, the formation of a large number of size, strength, ranging from hardware business. Hardware, large and small businesses nationwide to reach 30000 or so, more than the size of only 2.2% of the total. Most enterprises still OEM OEM-based, a few strong, clear corporate strategy have been carried out ODM, and even part of the OBM model of production.
In the business model options, corporate R & D strength is the main factor. Shift the focus of a small number of models being ODM, even OBM business in the industry, high-end status, large-scale, high quality, high technological content and strong profitability. The remaining enterprises are in the industry, in the low-end, poor profitability. With the growing importance of technical factors, the industry increasingly competitive, increasingly greater differentiation between enterprises.
Hardware industry's future development trend is good
1, metal industry, a broad space for development
Although the production of metal products industry are small products, unit value lower, but because of its widely used in automotive, real estate, shipbuilding, engineering machinery, petrochemical and other industries, demand is showing rapid growth.
(A) the steady growth of the international metal market, provide a good opportunity for
In recent years, the global hardware market, the average annual growth rate of 5.7% or so, the global hardware market in 2003 reached about 500 billion U.S. dollars. From the Tools hardware market point of view, as far as the world's trade and economic information provided by the mechanical and electrical data analysis tools developed in recent years, continued selling hardware. The United States is the world's largest hardware market in 2002, the United States a tool for hardware market to reach 20 billion U.S. dollars, of which hand tools, hardware products market reaches 58 billion U.S. dollars. According to the American Retail Hardware Association data, scenarios, from 2003 to 2008 U.S. hardware retail industry will maintain an average of 5.3% growth rate. Europe is the world's second largest hardware market, in 2002 the European tool for hardware products (including Germany, Britain, France, Italy, etc.), the import amount of 150 billion euros.
China, as the world's largest steel producer and the world's most populous country, has a metal tool-making raw material and labor cost advantages in the "Ninth Five-Year" Plan period, China's exports of U.S. and European markets tools for metal industry, a greater increase in maintain a 11.4% average annual export growth, China has become the world's tools for hardware products, one of the major exporting countries, in 2003, 2004, 2005, the total amount of tools for metal products export reached 5.342 billion U.S. dollars, 5.529 billion U.S. dollars, 6.671 billion U.S. dollars (see Figure 1). The next annual exports will continue to maintain 10-15% growth.
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