Analysis of the current situation and development prospects of the woodworking machinery industry in 2023
Furniture is a product with rigid demand, customized home furnishing is in the ascendant, and the demand for reducing labor and increasing efficiency in the furniture industry is strong. Some foreign woodworking machinery brands have withdrawn from the Chinese market because they cannot effectively meet the needs of the domestic customized furniture market. Southeast Asia prefers Chinese woodworking machinery and furniture equipment with higher cost performance.
OUR country is a big country in furniture production, consumption and export. According to customs statistics, from January to March 2021, the cumulative export of woodworking machinery in my country increased by 56.69% year-on-year, and the export growth rate in March was 38.89%. Although the export situation is good, according to the feedback from enterprises, my country's woodworking machinery enterprises also have some difficulties. For example, 20.65% of enterprises believe that high cost and insufficient labor force are the main difficulties affecting the sales and export of their products, and 18.4% of enterprises are suffering from the rapid growth of orders 13.04% of enterprises believe that there is bad competition in the market and that there is a shortage of scientific research and senior executives due to delayed delivery.
The development of woodworking machinery follows the development of market demand, and market demand depends on the preferences of end consumers, and Chinese consumers are (one of) the most picky consumers in the world. With the skyrocketing housing prices, the affordable houses of the working class in China are getting smaller and smaller. Traditional finished furniture cannot maximize the use of the limited housing space. The emergence of customized furniture has solved this pain point. It is also why the development of custom-made furniture, especially panel-type custom-made furniture, is so rapid, and has given birth to a large number of listed companies in the furniture industry. Changes in terminal demand push back changes in production requirements of enterprises. The original mass production mode is no longer applicable, and the market urgently needs flexible production solutions that adapt to small batches, multiple varieties, and multiple specifications.
Nowadays, a single equipment output can no longer meet the production needs of enterprises. The whole plant planning from front-end to back-end, from equipment islands to production line layout, is the core competitiveness of future woodworking machinery brands. The development of various new types of woodworking machinery, the intelligentization of furniture production, and the unmanned production have stepped onto the stage of woodworking machinery. Foreign Heomai, Biesse, domestic Nanxing, Xinghui and other woodworking machinery brands have proposed their own overall solution. The woodworking machinery industry is gradually moving from designing products and designing production lines to a higher level of designing the whole plant.
The rapid changes in woodworking machinery products in recent years also reflect that woodworking machinery needs to be more flexible and flexible to meet the needs of customized furniture production. Whether a piece of equipment or a production line can have a more flexible, more diverse, and more intelligent performance will become more and more important.
As of now, there are about 1,200 woodworking machinery enterprises in my country, more than 200 enterprises above designated size, nearly 100,000 employees, and more than 6,000 engineering and technical personnel. They can provide about 1,100 kinds of woodworking machinery products in 69 categories.
China's woodworking machinery is driven by the industrial production of customized furniture. A large number of woodworking machinery products are close to the international advanced level. The proportion of numerical control has increased significantly, and the number of special processing machine tools has increased. As in the past, only two-dimensional plate engraving is possible, but now it can be three-dimensional solid wood engraving.
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