The market status and development trend of the global office

Office furniture refers to the furniture used in the office or home, including office chairs, filing cabinets and desks.

Office furniture is a representative of contemporary commercial society, and its environmental trend needs to be highly correlated with the level of economic development. The booming economies such as Taixi and Japan are the ancient environmental trends of office furniture.

In the global context, in addition to the rapid growth of office furniture environmental trends in China, the emergence of emerging economies such as Brazil and India has also contributed to the development of global office furniture environmental trends.

China's office furniture production ranks first in the world. According to the report "Global Environmental Trends for Office Furniture" published by the Italian Milan Industry Research Center (CSIL) in December this year, after a substantial increase in this year and 2018, the annual office furniture this year has increased significantly. Production barely increased, but was up 8 percent compared to 2013.

The total output value of global office furniture this year reached 53 billion US dollars, accounting for about 12% of the total global furniture output.

The Asia-Pacific region is the key manufacturing area for office furniture, accounting for 47% of global office furniture production, followed by North America, which accounts for 28% of global office furniture production.

Europe ranks third, accounting for 19% of global office furniture production.

The share of production from other regions is negligible. China is a major exporter of global office furniture. In 2010, the global office furniture business value was US$7.6 billion, and this year it reached US$10.9 billion. According to CSIL's forecast, global business will grow by 2% and 3% in 2020 and 2021. The United States is a very large importer of office furniture, with an import value of more than 2.7 billion US dollars. The largest office furniture importer in the United States is China, followed by Canada, Mexico, Taiwan and Germany. China's share of total U.S. office furniture imports is declining due to the tension between China and the United States. The key exporters of office furniture are China, Canada, Germany, the United States and Italy. The proportion of China's office furniture exports has increased from 30% in 2010 to 38% this year. In the first half of 2020, the new crown epidemic hit the furniture industry: on the one hand, Panbang wood could not enter China, resulting in an increase in the price of wood; on the other hand, the trend of the real estate environment was weak, and domestic furniture fell into a low consumption trough.

From January to July 2020, my country's furniture industry has achieved a total of 335.22 billion yuan in opening revenue, a year-on-year decrease of 13.15%. Trends in the development of the office furniture industry in 2020 1: Furniture green and environmental protection is still an important topic The new version of furniture environmental protection standards has been implemented for more than 2 years. According to incomplete statistics, there have been many furniture and building materials manufacturing enterprises due to various crimes that pollute the environment. fined, many of which are well-known brands. As the country continues to increase environmental protection supervision on industrial platforms including furniture and other manufacturing industries, the environmental trend environment faced by furniture enterprises will become more and more standard, and under this standard environmental trend environment, it may make environmental protection Small and medium-sized furniture enterprises that do not meet the standards, fall behind in production capacity, and are not competitive will find an environment of mass closure. In addition, the risk of formaldehyde to the human body has long been deeply popular, and the progress of people's cognition will further promote the greener environmental protection of office furniture. Trend 2: More intelligent and humanized office equipment The development of the office furniture industry naturally follows the trend, and a number of intelligent office furniture products have been launched, which has opened up the intelligent era of office furniture. open up.

Especially for office furniture based on "ergonomics", it takes "people-desk-chair-environment" in the office system as an overall consideration tool, and promotes a very large degree of human liberation and a very high level of professional disease prevention, which is in line with ergonomics Academic-functional office furniture will become a confluence of costs. Trend 3: The application of new materials will profoundly change the office furniture industry. The construction of office furniture is inseparable from materials, and the functions, shapes, colors, etc. of office furniture brought by different materials are different. And the progress of office furniture and the material of furniture are cold, and the innovation of material will lead the innovation of office furniture industry, and it is also a simple response to technological innovation. Throughout the development process of the furniture industry, every major boom in the furniture industry is closely related to the application of new materials and process technologies. For thousands of years, easy-to-process plant materials such as wood and bamboo have become the key materials for building furniture, and office furniture is mostly wooden furniture.

Now, the discovery of new materials such as transparent wood, corn plastic, and reconstituted bamboo will profoundly revolutionize the office furniture industry. Trend 4: Diversification of office furniture design styles People's living standards continue to improve, and aesthetics are also constantly changing. The style of office furniture also evolves from the ancient grid to the open contemporary style. However, although the open office facilitates exchanges and cooperation, it seriously affects the concentration of the staff. How to balance openness and privacy is still a question that needs to be pondered when running a public furniture plan. Second, office furniture colors are changing from simple colors of blue, gray, black, and white to multicolored colors of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple. In recent years, office furniture exhibitions have found a violent artistic plan. All office furniture, including tables, chairs, cabinets, screens, and accessories, found a more artistic, colorful, and flexible design paradigm. Avant-garde elements and artistic styles are becoming the tide of office furniture planning. Trend 5: The brand effect of office furniture is expanding. At present, there have been office furniture brands with brand recognition in China, such as: Aurora, Baileys, Olin, Sennics, etc. These brands are in equipment, planning, manpower , The capital has all the advantages, can play a role model in the industry, and lead the entire furniture industry to develop to higher indicators.

At the same time, the remaining third- and fourth-tier companies either have insufficient brands, or have shortcomings in internal management and external marketing, making it increasingly difficult for them to survive and develop within the industry. In particular, with the frequent reduction of government office furniture purchase costs, low-profit government purchase public bidding orders need more abundant enterprise support, and those companies that have no rules in the development of environmental trends will become more difficult to survive. Trend 6: The momentum of second-hand office furniture should not be underestimated. In the past, the environmental trend of second-hand office furniture in China was mainly small-scale workshops with unlicensed plans. It has nothing to do with the quality of the previous office furniture. In the past two years, the development of the second-hand office furniture industry has attracted attention, which is also closely related to the continuous improvement of the industry standard and quality of office furniture.

On the one hand, the industry standards and regulatory policies of office furniture are "rising step by step", and many low-quality office furniture manufacturers can't feel that they can continue, and they have to choose to withdraw. This is a process of good money to disperse bad money. On the other hand, second-hand office furniture is the reincarnation of office furniture. After all, only "good quality" office furniture can be used overlappingly enough to be recycled in the environmental trend. This is also the further development of the environmental trend of office furniture. an excitement. At this stage, the number of second-hand office furniture is small, and there has not been too much intimidation against the environmental trend of office furniture. However, as the number of second-hand office furniture continues to increase, those who can come to Japan will also need to add second-hand office furniture. . Although my country's office furniture industry has achieved rapid development, it is a century later than the office furniture industry in the international booming country. The domestic office furniture industry also needs to increase investment in research and development, learn from and learn from the manufacturing technology of international office furniture, and develop products with environmental trend application value and high-tech content, which are beneficial in the fierce environmental trend competition.