Trends for Development of Lock Industry
Lock products of Chinese lock industry has serious homogenization. There
are amount of micro enterprises and every enterprise has the same
marketing channel. Only a few brands are well known by customers. Even
in household building materials industry, there are few famous lock
brands. So, after the economic cycle ending, plenty of micro enterprises
will be eliminated out. At present, real estate market is depressed in
China, demands for lock products falls and sales decline. On foreign
trade market, orders of some export enterprise have been decreased in
this year, compared with previous years.
In the future, there will be two trends for development of lock industry in China.
Trend one: digital fingerprint lock is expected to offset technical weakness
For lock products, most of products on Chinese lock market are mortise lock
and spherical lock. Two kinds of locks have simple manufacturing
technology. Quality issues are generally avoided when locks are made of
real materials and strictly hold every production process. However, the
two locks are not high-tech products, having lower technical content and
they are updated difficultly. So, although Chinese lock industry has
been developed for nearly 20 years, it still does not make any
breakthroughs. Product functions are always focusing on utility and
security. The best effort that enterprises can do is holding product
quality and updating appearance designs. It is not exaggerated to say
that low technical content deficiencies of mortise lock and spherical
lock, and become the developing weakness of lock industry.
However, electric fingerprint lock coming out improves lock industry.
With the development of intelligent security technologies and wide
application of chip, electric fingerprint lock has been quickly
developed. At present, some famous brands have already developed
intelligent electric fingerprint lock. The intelligent electric
fingerprint lock may be the last blue sea in lock industry. The market
space is large and profits are relatively higher. In addition, profits
brought by after-sales service are also large which are worthy for
enterprises paying. An enterprise must focus on two aspects if it wants
to survive. On the one hand, it should have products having high
additional value. The products can bring more profits to enterprises. On
the other hand, it should have products focusing on quantity. The
products only need to earn few profits, aiming at attracting customers’
attraction, improving influences of brands and enterprises. Two aspects
are indispensable. For lock enterprises, spherical lock is used to
pursuit of quantity while mortise lock and electric lock can earn more
profits.
Trend two: cooperation between lock enterprises and door enterprises stresses individuality
As is known to all, scale of door industry highly exceeds than lock
industry after having been developed for more than ten years, though the
development of lock industry is earlier than door industry. Nowadays,
the development of door industry has already become weather vane of lock
industry. Generally, lock enterprises only can design and manufacture
matched locks after door coming out.