Furniture Hardware 2025–2031: Unlocking Growth with Full-Chain Insights and Strategic Investment Blueprint
1.Overview of the furniture Hardware Industry Development
Furniture hardware refers to various hardware products widely used in kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and other residential scenes, which are an important part of modern household goods. They are characterized by durability, rust resistance, moisture resistance, and can be divided into storage hardware, basic hardware, kitchen and bathroom hardware, etc. The specific introduction is as follows:
| Category | Description |
|---|---|
| Storage Hardware | Mainly includes pull-out baskets, drawer slides, coat hooks, shoe racks, storage racks, cup holders, and other hardware components used for storage functions. |
| Basic Hardware | Refers to hardware components used for support, connection, and fixing functions, mainly including hinges, handles, slides, door closers, catches, pulleys, and stays. |
| Kitchen & Bathroom Hardware | Mainly includes kitchen sinks, kitchen faucets, knife holders, towel racks, and other stainless steel or metal accessories for kitchen and bathroom use. |
Among them, storage hardware organizes and stores items in an orderly manner, such as the rational use of shelves can effectively utilize corner space and high-level space, making home life more convenient and comfortable. Against the backdrop of the increasing population and the further shrinking of residential space, the demand for storage hardware that can fully utilize residential space and increase storage has also increased.
The kitchen is one of the busiest areas in family life, and the modern kitchen has gradually transitioned from a survival type to a civilization type, comfort type, with multiple functions such as cooking, washing, and storage. Sink, cabinet, stove, and other hardware products are the most common and essential in the kitchen. With the continuous changes in social needs and the continuous innovation of materials and technology levels, Furniture hardware industry enterprises have made significant improvements in scale, management, benefits, product types, quality, and process technology.
The Furniture hardware industry is developing towards a series of, intelligent, and easy-to-disassemble directions. In addition, with the continuous acceleration of the formulation of home hardware industry standards by relevant national departments and industry associations, such as “Furniture Functional Hardware Shelves”, “Home Stainless Steel Sink”, “Drawer Guide Rails for Full Renovation and Similar Home Hardware”, etc., higher requirements have been put forward for the environmental protection, corrosion resistance, durability, and other aspects of home hardware.
At the same time, higher standards have also been proposed for the production and sales links of Furniture hardware, laying a foundation for promoting the development of the home hardware industry and improving the level of competition in the home hardware industry.
On the other hand, as a necessary consumer product in building and house decoration, with the background of consumption upgrading and the continuous increase in consumers’ demand for mid-to-high-end home hardware products, the scale of the home hardware industry in our country has been expanding. In 2022, the scale of the domestic home hardware industry was about 300 billion yuan.
Among them, home functional hardware belongs to the detailed category of Furniture hardware, which refers to various functional hardware products that can perform functions such as storage, connection, rotation, and water storage alone or in combination with other plates, accessories, etc. Mainly including shelves, hinges, kitchen sinks, etc.
The main production areas of domestic home functional hardware are concentrated in the Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta and other economically developed areas, among which the Foshan area has developed into one of the main home hardware industrial clusters in China. It will also give full play to the industrial cluster effect, continue to strive to improve product quality and performance, and provide high-quality home hardware products for consumers.
2. Development Trend of the Furniture Hardware Industry
(1) The consumption upgrade promotes the development of Furniture hardware towards the mid-to-high-end market.
The overall growth prospects of the Chinese consumer market are broad, and structural changes have also become an important feature of the development of various consumer industries. Among them, the consumption upgrade, accompanied by the growth of China’s economic level and the change of people’s consumption concepts, has become one of the core factors driving industry transformation. From 2014 to 2023, the per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents in China has increased from 20,167.10 yuan to 39,218.00 yuan, with a compound annual growth rate of 7.67%; the per capita consumption expenditure of urban and rural residents has increased from 14,491.40 yuan to 26,796.00 yuan, with a compound annual growth rate of 7.07%.
Data compilation: China Golden Credit International Consulting. With the growth of residents’ income levels and the pursuit of refined living, more stable product quality, higher-quality product materials, and more fashionable design elements have become important considerations in consumer decision-making. Exquisitely designed and high-quality hardware products will greatly enhance the quality and grade of home products. Therefore, mid-to-high-end home hardware products with stable quality and fashionable appearance design will increasingly attract consumers.
With the consumption upgrade, industrial development, and improvement of industry standards, the development of the low-end Furniture hardware market has encountered bottlenecks, while home hardware enterprises in the mid-to-high-end market, due to high product quality, original design, and focus on brand building and marketing, are gradually replacing the original low-end products and will have stronger competitiveness and voice in the industry under the environment of consumption upgrade and increased purchasing power.
(2) Technological progress drives the manufacturing and application of Furniture hardware towards intelligence.
The new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation has promoted the deep integration of new generation information technology and manufacturing industries. The state and regions have successively issued supportive policies such as the “14th Five-Year Plan for Intelligent Manufacturing” and the “National Intelligent Manufacturing Standard System Construction Guide,” building an intelligent industrial manufacturing system.
With the development and application of related technology systems such as intelligent equipment, intelligent factories, industrial software, and artificial intelligence, the production and manufacturing of home hardware products is also gradually shifting from labor-intensive production to intelligent, automated, and information-based production. Intelligent home hardware is an important part of building a smart home ecosystem. In the past, traditional hardware parts only had single functions or decorative functions.
With the transformation of the industry’s intelligent upgrading, humanized and interconnected Furniture hardware products are constantly developing. Among them, intelligent sinks, intelligent door locks, and intelligent clothes dryers are important links in building a smart home ecosystem. With the transformation of the industry’s intelligent upgrading, humanized and interconnected Furniture hardware products are constantly developing.
(3) The Era of Integrated Home Improvement: Building Systematic Furniture Hardware Solutions
With the accelerating pace of modern life, the division of labor in the home improvement industry has become increasingly refined. Most young consumers no longer have the time or energy to purchase individual home decor items piece by piece. The integrated home improvement model effectively addresses this pain point by offering one-stop solutions, and has rapidly gained popularity.
Unlike the traditional finished furniture hardware industry, integrated home improvement allows consumers to simply select their preferred styles, brands, colors, and dimensions, while the rest is handled by full-house customization providers or renovation companies. In this context, more hardware manufacturers and service providers are shifting their focus toward systematic hardware solutions—offering complete product packages tailored to specific types of furniture or living scenarios.
These coordinated solutions typically include basic hardware such as hinges and slides, as well as storage hardware and kitchen and bathroom accessories like pull-out baskets, sinks, and faucets. Systematic Furniture hardware solutions not only streamline the user experience but also significantly enhance customer satisfaction and strengthen a brand’s market competitiveness.
3. Industry technical level and characteristics
After many years of development, the level of technology in China’s home hardware and outdoor furniture industry has improved, mainly reflected in the following aspects:
(1) Product design and research and development capabilities
The Furniture hardware and outdoor furniture industry has homogenization competition, and the level of design and research and development of enterprises varies.
With the increasing attention of residents to the quality of life, in order to gain market share in the fierce competition, enterprises have continuously increased their efforts in design and research and development, fully considering the appearance design, structure, material, manufacturing process and other elements of the product, and developed products with unique characteristics. The overall level of design and research and development in the industry has been continuously improved. However, due to the short development time of the industry, there is a significant gap in the innovative strength of research and design among different enterprises.
Some small-scale enterprises lack the strength of independent research and design innovation, and the product design is basically imitative. Leading enterprises in the industry often attach great importance to research and design innovation, and with long-term and continuous high investment, they have now developed strong original research and design innovation capabilities, which can fully understand market trends and rapidly promote the research and design of new products.
(2) Production and manufacturing capabilities
Furniture hardware and outdoor furniture products have the characteristics of a wide variety of products and specifications. With the intensification of industry competition, enterprises have paid more attention to flexible and automated production and manufacturing capabilities, realizing the manufacturing process of multi-model and multi-batch products with product process design as the guide and numerical control technology as the core. At the same time, enterprises have continuously optimized production processes to achieve the goal of reducing costs and increasing efficiency, and have gradually promoted the improvement of production and manufacturing capabilities.
(3) Energy-saving and environmental protection in materials and technology
Furniture hardware and outdoor furniture products are applied in consumers’ daily lives. In recent years, with the increasing awareness of energy-saving and environmental protection among consumers, as well as the implementation of relevant policies for industrial upgrading and green development in our country, energy-saving and environmental protection indicators have received extensive attention.
Enterprises have paid more and more attention to energy-saving and environmental protection performance in raw material selection and production technology, such as the selection of new energy-saving and environmental protection materials, the application of acid-free cleaning technology and cyanide-free electroplating technology, and the application of environmentally friendly coatings. Home hardware and outdoor furniture enterprises need to continuously improve the standards of raw materials, develop new technologies and processes, and research new energy-saving and environmental protection materials to meet the increasingly high requirements of green development.
(4) Application of information technology
Furniture hardware and outdoor furniture enterprises have a large variety and quantity of raw materials and products, with high delivery requirements. Information technology has become a key factor in the development of enterprises. Faced with massive management information and production management data, enterprises in the industry have opened up various information management systems such as MES, WMS, QMS, and connected them with the enterprise’s ERP and OA systems, so that information flow covers all business links such as receiving orders, raw material procurement, production plan formulation, production scheduling, production manufacturing, semi-finished product/finished product inspection, product inventory, and shipment.
Gradually, an information management system that meets the needs of the enterprise’s own development has been established. Relying on the visual management of information systems, key information such as the distribution of production materials, the number of non-conforming products, and the preparation status of shipment orders can be grasped in real time, in order to achieve the goal of reducing on-site material idleness, reasonable allocation of production resources, reducing product inventory management costs, timely shipment, and improving overall operational efficiency.