The development of plumbing hardware

There are more than 10,000 domestic architectural hardware manufacturers, accounting for 25 per cent of the number of enterprises in the whole hardware industry. According to the customs statistics, in 2010, the export value of architectural hardware was US$22.841 billion, accounting for 39.7% of the hardware industry. Among them, the export value of valves was 5.806 billion US dollars, an increase of 28.6% year-on-year; faucets were 4.017 billion US dollars, an increase of 32.2% year-on-year; pipe connectors were 3.514 billion US dollars, an increase of 35% year-on-year. Architectural hardware products is the hardware industry's export big, in the hardware industry has a pivotal position; and valves, spigots, pipe connectors and other plumbing parts as the main products of production, sales and export scale is also expanding year by year.
International production of plumbing fittings and equipment in the main countries are the United States, Germany, Italy and Spain, due to the rise in raw materials and labour costs and other reasons, these countries are gradually low-grade products and processing and manufacturing and other aspects of the transfer of developing countries or regions such as China, their own production of some high value-added products, turning to the development of plumbing and piping systems, the overall solution provider. These industrial chain and supply chain links to China's transfer is conducive to the long-term development of the industry.
Plumbing fittings and equipment market demand, the maintenance market accounts for about 80%, the new housing construction market accounts for about 20%, so although the national policy and economic environment has a greater impact on the demand for new housing construction market, but the maintenance market still maintains a more stable market demand, so the industry's market demand is still maintained at a certain level. At the same time, with China's economic and social development and people's living standards, based on improving the quality of life and environmental protection, hygiene and health requirements, specialised, intelligent plumbing fittings demand will grow further. It is believed that China's plumbing pipe parts manufacturing industry has great potential for development, but at the same time, the industry competition is becoming increasingly fierce, these require domestic outstanding plumbing pipe parts manufacturing enterprises to pay attention to the study of the industry market, especially on the development of the industry environment and the demand for segmented products in-depth study of the demander.