The market size of cold bending forming machines has been expanding continuously in recent years, and will maintain a good development trend in the future driven by trends such as intelligentization and greening. The following is a detailed introduction:
Market Size: According to data from Toubao Research Institute, the market size of cold bending forming equipment in China will reach 21.5 billion yuan in 2025. The total output value of China's cold bending forming production line industry reached 86.54 billion yuan in 2023, and is expected to exceed 100 billion yuan in 2024, reaching 102.36 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 18.3%. It is predicted that by the end of 2025, the total output value of the industry will reach 125 billion yuan.
Development Trends
Increasing Level of Intelligentization: The industry's R&D investment intensity is continuously increasing, reaching 4.7% in 2024. The application coverage of digital twin technology has increased from 12% to 34%. Cold bending production lines using intelligent sensing systems can reduce energy consumption by 18%-25% and increase product yield to 99.2%. Green development is inevitable: With strengthened environmental policies, enterprises need to increase investment in environmental protection and improve the environmental performance of production equipment. For example, the implementation of the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) requires a 15%-20% reduction in the carbon emission intensity of exported products, which will force enterprises to accelerate green process transformation.
Application areas are constantly expanding: In addition to traditional fields such as construction and automobiles, the demand for cold bending forming machines in new application scenarios such as new energy, high-speed rail track fasteners, and intelligent warehouse racking is showing exponential growth. Among them, the order volume of cold bending equipment used in photovoltaic bracket manufacturing has grown rapidly, increasing its share of the industry's total output value from 18.3% in 2021 to 24.1% in 2024.
Regional coordinated development continues to improve: The Yangtze River Delta region has formed a complete industrial chain, with a local supporting rate of 83% for cold-formed steel. In the central and western regions, through the construction of industrial collaboration platforms, the supporting rate of the industrial chain has accelerated, the regional production efficiency difference coefficient has continued to narrow, and the level of regional coordinated development has continued to improve. International market expansion accelerated: In 2024, the export delivery value of the cold bending forming machine industry reached RMB 18.64 billion, a year-on-year increase of 23.5%. The export product structure continued to be optimized, with the export value of high-precision complex cross-section forming equipment increasing from 31% in 2021 to 45%. Orders from emerging markets such as Southeast Asia and the Middle East grew significantly.
