Environmental protection and energy-saving forklift will become the new darling of the market

Forklifts refer to various wheeled handling vehicles for loading, unloading, stacking, and short-distance transportation of palletized goods, also known as industrial vehicles. It is an important equipment for the logistics industry. It plays a very important role in the logistics system and is an indispensable and important equipment for material handling and storage equipment. Forklift trucks are the main tools for realizing logistics mechanized operations, reducing the labor intensity of workers' handling, improving the efficiency of operations, and reducing the logistics costs of warehousing.

Forklift trucks can usually be divided into three categories: internal combustion forklifts, electric forklifts and storage forklifts. Forklifts have a wide range of applications, including the construction industry, machinery manufacturing industry, transportation industry, textile industry, chemical industry, metallurgy industry, and energy industry. Among them, the construction industry and machinery manufacturing industry accounted for the largest proportion of applications, accounting for 26% and 20% respectively.

According to the "2014-2018 China Forklift Manufacturing Industry Production and Sales Demand Forecasting and Transformation and Upgrade Analysis Report," data shows that in 2013 China's industrial vehicles ushered in a relatively strong development trend, in 2013 the domestic mobile industrial vehicle manufacturing enterprises, five types of forklifts (mobile industrial vehicles ) The cumulative sales volume reached 328,764 units, an increase of 13.89% from 288,662 units in 2012.

In 2013, the global market share of China's internal combustion forklifts was 41.23%, an increase of 8.16% year-on-year, still ranked first in the world; the global share of electric storage vehicles was 10.58%, an increase of 6.87% year-on-year, ranking third in the world rankings. Bit. Compared with the dominant position of internal combustion forklifts, the global market share of various electric storage vehicles in China is still very low, but it has continued to maintain a growth trend and has a good momentum of development. In the future, there will be huge room for the development of overseas electric storage vehicles in China.

Forward-looking Industry Research Institute forklift industry report analysis believes that the future of the forklift industry will show the following trends: 1 mobile industrial vehicles will be more environmentally friendly, electric forklift applications wider; 2 energy-saving and electromechanical integration of high-tech will be widely used; 3 Security and intelligence will be further developed.

From the perspective of industry development, the downstream customers and industry cycle of the forklift industry are completely different from those of construction machinery. The downstream applications of construction machinery are mainly real estate and infrastructure, while the downstream of forklifts are various industrial and commercial enterprises involving material handling. The downstream applications are very extensive. The forklift industry cycle is obviously different from the construction machinery companies affected by real estate and infrastructure. The development of the forklift industry has mainly benefited from rising labor costs and the development of the logistics industry.

In the coming years, with the advancement and implementation of the comprehensive reform plan deployed by the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, adjustment and transformation of economic structure will continue to develop in depth, and the economic vitality of the domestic market will be further activated. In the process of urbanization, informatization, and agricultural modernization, new hot spots for consumption and investment are constantly being tapped and replaced. The capacity and potential of the forklift industry's domestic market are huge.

Judging from the development trend of the domestic forklift market, the gradual disappearance of the demographic dividend, the improvement of the overall social logistics efficiency, and the transformation and upgrading of the industrial structure will all arouse the new demand and vitality of the forklift market. With reference to overseas mature markets, domestic forklifts will transform from homogeneous homogenous product competition to product innovation, service innovation, and model innovation; in addition, with the enhancement of environmental protection awareness of the whole society, green, energy-saving and environment-friendly forklift trucks will gradually acquire users. The recognition of new energy forklifts such as electric forklifts, natural gas, and liquefied petroleum gas, and internal combustion forklifts that meet the new emission standards will become a hot spot in the future market.