In 2021, China's forklift industry has developed rapidly in the past ten years

In the past year, some new development directions have emerged in the forklift industry:

China's forklift sales exceeded the 1 million mark for the first time, and while sales rose, new energy products became the protagonists.

2021 is not only a year for the industrial vehicle industry to break the record, but also the highest proportion of electric forklifts, with electric forklifts accounting for nearly 60%. With the increasing global attention to environmental issues, as well as China's "timetable" for carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals, as well as the efforts of industry manufacturers, the proportion of electric forklifts in China has been rising. In addition to the increase in sales, we see: new energy products have become the protagonist, lithium battery forklift sales in 2021 is 332,640 units, has accounted for more than half of the electric forklift trucks reached 50.57%, and the related new energy forklift technology is constantly innovating and improving. In 2017, when there were only 8,681 lithium-ion forklifts, we mentioned in the ranking of that year: new energy has always received attention from the industry, but from 2017, it is estimated that it is the "first year" of new energy, which has become a hot spot in the whole industry. From the hot spots of 2017 to 2021 lithium forklift configuration rate has been more than half, in this short period of time, it can be seen that China's industrial vehicle industry is enthusiastic about lithium battery, domestic well-known enterprises have also increased investment in new energy forklifts, of course, new energy products are not only electric forklifts, look forward to the future, the use of other more environmentally friendly, more natural drive methods of forklifts for environmental protection plays a more important role in environmental protection.

In order to welcome the official implementation of the "National IV" standard, the internal combustion forklift has further improved its technology.

Although the proportion of internal combustion forklifts is decreasing, due to the relatively large base of internal combustion forklifts, it occupies an important and irreplaceable position in counterbalanced forklifts, especially in some specific application scenarios. The "National IV" standard for non-road mobile machinery will be officially implemented on December 1, 2022, and internal combustion forklift manufacturing enterprises and related accessories companies have launched models and related products that meet environmental protection emission standards, and the whole machine model is further enriched, and the internal combustion forklift truck is further improved in terms of technology and manufacturing capacity.

Enterprises specializing in EHS have made great progress and harvest.

In May 2021, the second "China Forklift Safety Day" organized by the Industrial Vehicle Association was successfully held in Dongguan. Advocated by the association and called on the industry to attach importance to forklift safety, effectively promote the healthy development of the majority of enterprises. In June, The Fork Network-2021 forklift and mobile robot safety, quality miles also officially set sail, by the industry media to advocate the high-quality development of the industry, enhance the industry's safety, environmental awareness, industrial vehicle industry not only attaches importance to product quality, improve safety awareness, in the enterprise also further enhance the health, safety, environment (EHS) awareness of employees, to ensure safe, fast and efficient production. With the rising sales of forklift trucks and market ownership, forklifts as a special equipment, the role played in material handling is becoming more and more important, with the development of society and the improvement of people's quality of living and the emphasis on quality and safety, enterprises specializing in EHS will also be greatly developed in the industry.

China's position in the world industrial vehicle industry is becoming more and more stable, and internationally renowned brands have increased their investment in China.

China from 2009 to replace the United States as the world's largest industrial vehicle manufacturing and consumer began, China's position in the world industrial vehicle industry is pivotal, and in 2021, China's forklift sales exceeded the million mark, the position in the world industrial vehicle industry will become more and more stable, although affected by the epidemic, but internationally renowned brands are still optimistic about the Chinese market, digging deep into the business opportunities of the Chinese market, increasing investment in China, only in 2021 there will be several new factories completed, hoping to enhance the market share in the Chinese market.

Under the epidemic, Chinese brands continue to "retrograde upwards" overseas.

In the past two years, although the epidemic has brought a short period of "stagnation", but also made countless enterprises into confusion, but with the rapid development of China's industrial vehicles, more and more domestic industrial vehicle brands go abroad to open up a broader international market overseas, these companies continue to think, find new ways to go to sea, change "danger" into "opportunity", or secretly accumulate strength to prepare for sailing to the sea again. Compared with the Chinese market, the pursuit of overseas market opportunities that have not yet been fully explored has become the only way for domestic forklift brands with vision and potential. At present, Chinese brands are getting rid of low-quality, cheap labels to the development of high-end, brand forklifts in overseas recognition has been improved, especially lithium battery forklifts, compared with the same period in 2020, an increase of 181.50%, of course, this and lithium battery forklift export base is not very much to do, from which we can also see that lithium battery exports still have huge room for growth.

Hydrogen fuel cell technology has made a breakthrough, and 2021 will become the first year of fuel forklifts

In recent years, the improvement of fuel cell technology and its advantages of high efficiency, environmental friendliness and low noise have attracted the attention of countries around the world and have been more widely used. In terms of industrial vehicles, affected by the recovery of domestic production demand and the development of logistics and warehousing industry, the domestic forklift market continues to grow, under the pressure of domestic emission policies, the electrification of domestic forklifts shows an accelerated state, but pure electric forklifts can not fully meet the market demand, fuel cell forklifts with its hydrogenation fast, not afraid of low temperature, stable operation, wide power range advantages can just make up for the shortcomings of pure electric forklifts. China is now in the fuel cell forklift acceleration promotion stage, 2021 can be called the "first year" of fuel forklifts, a number of companies launched a new fuel cell forklift, hydrogen energy and electrification, has become one of the key development technologies for many enterprises to achieve an eco-friendly society in the future. However, at present, there are also fuel cell stacks and other core components of the technical threshold and manufacturing costs are high, has not yet achieved large-scale mass production; hydrogen production, hydrogen storage and hydrogenation infrastructure and other hydrogen energy industry improvement is an important part of the promotion of fuel cell forklifts, so that the fuel cell forklift operation range is limited and other restrictions on the development of fuel forklifts, how to actively plan and introduce a number of favorable policies at the national and local government departments, accelerate the process of fuel cell forklifts is one of the priorities of future development.

Products in the industrial vehicle industry have changed in structure and marketing patterns.

China is a vast region, rich economic level, circle of staggered resonance of the economy, in view of such a situation, the industry launched the application of fine products and services in the field of subdivision; while forklift users in the development of technology, market, the demand is increasingly rich, complex and changeable, for such a situation, the introduction of more flexible products and corresponding marketing methods; China's economic structure transformation, supply-side reform, forklift machine manufacturing enterprises in improving their own quality, continue to adjust and optimize the product structure, Support forklift users to develop and compete in the direction of higher added value.