Storage shelf industry: scale effect to enhance comprehensive competitiveness

　　With the overall growth of China's economy,the logistics and storage industry is developing rapidly,and the demand for shelves is becoming more and more large.With the wide use of shelves,specialized,large-scale shelves manufacturers emerge,promote the specialized shelves,standardized production.Since the 1990s,there have been shelf enterprises in China.In the late 1990s,several European shelf companies,such as Schaefer,Dexion and Stow,began to enter China,playing a great role in promoting the development of domestic shelf industry.After 2000,the domestic shelving enterprises mushroomed in an endless way.After only a decade of development,the shelving enterprises in China have grown to more than 100,which does not include the large and small distribution and trading companies.

　　Current situation analysis because of the current shelf enterprises have no industry standards,and the threshold of shelf manufacturing is low,in the decade of China's rapid economic development,a large number of shelf production enterprises have emerged,making the market competition more and more serious.We can divide the country's shelf manufacturers into high-end,mid-end,low-end three levels.Among them,high-end shelf manufacturers have a certain scale,standardized production,from the design,production and manufacturing,quality,installation and other aspects follow their own enterprise standards and foreign standards,and in the market have a place,erected their own brand.The annual output value of these companies exceeds 100 million yuan,and some even reach 300 million to 500 million yuan.For some other mid-end shelf manufacturers,the annual output value of more than 50 million yuan,the quality standard is general.Some are transformed from metal products factory to shelf production factory,with an annual output value of less than 50 million yuan,low standards in manufacturing technology,material use and other aspects,and low prices to obtain the market.

　　From the development of 2008,several large shelf factories have the trend of continuous expansion,through the expansion of manufacturing base,are trying to rely on the scale effect to improve the overall competitiveness,some as early as in 2006,2007 has begun.Therefore,more and more enterprises began to compete for market share,capacity is rapidly expanding,the market competition is extremely fierce.

　　Especially from the first half of 2009,affected by the financial storm at the end of 2008,the whole demand market shrank,and several large shelf enterprises fiercely scrambled for a few limited projects,in order to meet their spare capacity.During this period,the overall level of prices fell,making the shelf business situation more difficult.

　　Market in recent years is reviewed,and shelf industry development has been faster,according to the statistics,during the period of 2005~2007,shelf market growth of 35%or more a year,in 2007 the industry output value of about 2.8 billion~3 billion yuan,in 2008,because of the price hike in raw materials,the dollar exchange rate fluctuation,the influence of the international financial tsunami,the industry growth slowed markedly,the overall growth of about 15%or so.The growth rate of several big shelf factories slowed down significantly,and some companies even showed negative growth.Since 2009,affected by the environment,the average gross output value of China's shelf enterprises has significantly reduced,compared with the same period last year,the average reduction of 30%~40%.

　　Before 2000,customers'demand for shelves was mainly limited to simple storage,which was mainly used by foreign investment enterprises in China.However,a large number of domestic state-owned and private enterprises had not started to use such professional shelves,and the customer group of shelves was relatively narrow.At that time,more than 1 million yuan was considered as a big project.

　　In 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 constantly reflected,and products have been developed to a large scale and diversification,such as large manufacturing storage warehouses,large logistics distribution centers,automated storage systems and so on.The shelf is no longer a simple shelf for storing goods,but has evolved into a comprehensive storage and logistics equipment system integrating diverse and complex functions.Products from ordinary storage function for the development of which has the function of warehousing,logistics distribution,choose a variety of shelves system projects,such as large pallet shelves,loft-style shelves,after pushing type shelf,fluent gravity shelves,shelves,mobile shelves steel structure platform,etc.,as well as the synthesis of various types of products above,to achieve a certain logistics function,at that time,3 million~5 million yuan project has been very common.

　　Since 2008,the project scale is getting larger and larger,more than 10 million yuan of projects have been common,shelves in the production,circulation field has been more and more widely used.Such as the distribution of book publishing,car parts transit warehouse,fast moving consumer goods commercial distribution and other fields,there are frequent more than 10 million,even 20 million,30 million shelf project,unprecedented scale.

　　Today,the group using shelves have covers a wide range of foreign companies,private and state-owned all walks of life,and,with the further development of the economy,after solved the problems of warehouse storage,gradually appeared to improve warehouse management problems,therefore,demand for integrated warehousing overall solution will be more and more big,the demand for the automation of warehouse management also will be more and more big.Especially in the field of commercial circulation,there will be a greater demand for warehousing and logistics system solutions.

　　In recent years,automated three-dimensional storage shelves,automated warehouse system is developing very rapidly,at present is the logistics system integrators to build three-dimensional warehouse,of course one of the automatic stereo warehouse shelves are from domestic several big shelves manufacturers to provide,such as stars,sound fly,:,six dimensions,the storehouse,ding tiger,etc.

　　Among the contractors of automated three-dimensional storage system,high-end foreign brands include dematech and daifu,as well as Japanese and Taiwanese brands,such as murata,okamura,Formosa plastics,and mengli,etc.The strongest domestic brands are kunchuan,beichih and beichih,as well as japan-east and todays international.In 2008,many three-dimensional warehouses were built in China.Logistics has been listed as the tenth industrial revitalization plan,and the state will increase investment in this area in the future.Therefore,with the development of economy,the development prospect of automated storage shelves will be very huge.