1. pallet market scale continues to expand
In 2021, the scale of China's pallet market will continue to expand, and the annual output, inventory and scale of circulating shared Pallet Pool will all grow at a higher rate. In 2021, the annual output of pallets in China was about 390million pieces, a year-on-year increase of 14.71%; The inventory of pallet market reached 1.66 billion pieces, a year-on-year increase of 7.10%; Pallet recycling and sharing enterprises have accelerated the expansion of the scale of their respective pallet pools, and promoted the integrated development of carrier transportation and supply chain. In 2021, the total scale of pallet pools in China exceeded 34million, an increase of more than 5.5 million compared with 2020, a year-on-year increase of 19.30%, accounting for 2.05% of the total number of pallets. The share of wooden pallets has decreased year by year, while the share of plastic pallets has increased year by year. The total share of wooden pallets and plastic pallets is more than 80%.
2. industry policies and standards define the development direction
On April 1, 2021, the general office of the Ministry of transport and other eight departments issued the notice on the promotion and application of standardized logistics turnover boxes (JBY [2021] No. 30).
On August 6, the Ministry of Commerce and other nine departments issued a notice on printing and distributing the special action plan for high quality development of commercial logistics (2021-2025), to improve the standardization level of commercial logistics.
In 2021, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the national standardization development outline, which focused on strengthening the standardization of modern logistics and other service fields. On June 10, the National Standardization Management Committee officially approved China Federation of logistics and purchasing to assume the role of iso/tc 51 (pallets for unit load method of materials handling) domestic technical counterpart. The implementation of this work formally and comprehensively realized the work connection between domestic TC and international TC.
On August 20, the State Administration of market supervision and the National Standardization Administration issued a notice (No. 11 of 2021), approving the issuance of two national pallet standards, namely, general half pallet dimensions and performance requirements (gb/t 40479-2021) and intermodal general skateboard pallet dimensions and performance requirements (gb/t 40481-2021), which were proposed and centralized by the National Logistics Standardization Technical Committee, and were officially implemented on March 1, 2022.
3. digitalization injects new momentum into the development of pallet industry
China's "fourteenth five year plan" points out that it is necessary to accelerate the development of digitalization. Develop the digital economy, promote the digital industrialization and industrial digitalization, promote the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, and create a digital industry cluster with international competitiveness. Accelerating digital transformation is conducive to promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, and digitalization has also become the development direction of the current supply chain. As an important container in the logistics system, the digital transformation of the whole industry has become an inevitable trend.
At present, China's pallet industry has changed to a large-scale and intensive direction, and its basic capacity has been continuously strengthened. With the development and popularization of Internet of things technology, and the cross-border participation of barcode, RFID, laser identification, 5g and other technologies, the digitization of the pallet industry has developed rapidly, which has improved the convenience of pallets in production and use, and the circular sharing mode of pallets and intelligent pallets have developed rapidly, Digitalization provides users with higher value.
In terms of specific exploration and practice of enterprises, Lukai launched the smart cloud platform, which is a set of digital comprehensive solutions for the whole scene of transportation with boards, and also a comprehensive business service platform for customers. The launch of zhihuiyun marks the official launch of Lukai's "business digitalization" strategy and plays a key supporting role in promoting large-scale transportation with boards.
4. accelerated innovation of automatic and intelligent production equipment
Not only the pallet operation enterprises are actively improving the digital management level, but also the pallet equipment enterprises are carrying out intelligent and digital transformation and upgrading of relevant equipment.
With the rapid development of pallet recycling and sharing enterprises, the accelerated expansion of standardized Pallet Pool, the gradual improvement of customer requirements, the shortage of labor and the rising labor cost, the production mode of pallet enterprises is also changing from traditional manual production to automatic production, and the rapid development of domestic pallet automatic production equipment, making "made in China" go global.
Foreign automatic pallet production enterprises mainly focus on hydraulic pallet production lines, and the representative enterprises include Cape in Spain, Delta and Storti in Italy. In 2011, Tianjin Xinchuang introduced the first hydraulic pallet production line, opening a wave of the use and research and development of automatic pallet production equipment in China.
With the development of recycling and sharing mode, millions of recycling and sharing pallets are born every year. After the pallets are used once, their life cycle and service life can be extended through maintenance without replacing them with new pallets.
5. new materials help to further upgrade pallet products
Traditional pallets are mainly wooden pallets and plastic pallets, as well as paper pallets, aluminum pallets, metal pallets, etc. With the rising price of wood, the proposal of the "double carbon" target, and the people's awareness of low-carbon environmental protection, energy conservation and emission reduction, and recycling, more and more enterprises are paying attention to the research and development of new material pallets. The application of new materials in the pallet industry has been gradually improved, and many types of new material pallets have been introduced to the market.
