2025 Rigging Industry Development Consultation: High-Endization and Globalization Drive Industrial Upgrading

In 2025, China's rigging industry enters a critical period of high-quality development, with steady expansion of market scale. According to data from China Construction Machinery Association Rigging Branch's "China Rigging Industry Development Report (2024), the total output value of China's rigging industry reached 36.85 billion yuan in 2024, a year-on-year increase of 7.3%; the association also predicts that the industry's market scale will exceed 96 billion yuan by 2030, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 7.2%. Fields such as outdoor equipment, offshore wind power, and infrastructure have become core growth engines (Source: China Construction Machinery Association Rigging Branch, 2024).

Technological upgrading has become the core focus of industry competition. In terms of material innovation, 7075 aviation aluminum is rapidly increasing its penetration in outdoor rigging due to its advantages of light weight and high strength. Grand View Research's "7075-T6 Aluminum Market Size Report, 2025-2034" points out that the global aerospace aluminum market is expected to exceed 11.8 billion US dollars by 2030, of which 7-series aluminum alloy accounts for more than 75%, indirectly driving the expansion of its application in the rigging field; 304 and 316 stainless steel remain the preferred materials for marine engineering and outdoor equipment due to their excellent corrosion resistance. The 2024 Annual Report of the Wind Energy Professional Committee of the Chinese Renewable Energy Society shows that the newly added offshore wind power installed capacity in China reached 7.8 gigawatts in 2024, directly driving a surge in demand for corrosion-resistant and fatigue-resistant rigging (Sources: Grand View Research, 2024; Wind Energy Professional Committee of the Chinese Renewable Energy Society, 2024). On the process side, the application of digital production equipment and MES systems has increased the production efficiency of leading enterprises by more than 30%, with product precision reaching an industry-leading level. Cold forging and hot forging technologies are adaptively used in different product scenarios, forming a mature process application system (Source: China General Machinery Components Industry Association Rigging Branch, 2024).

Standard compliance and customized services have become key to breaking through the market. UIAA certification, CE standards, and EN series specifications in the European market have become rigid thresholds for product entry. Data from the General Administration of Customs' 2024 Import and Export Statistics Information Network shows that China's rigging export volume reached 1.56 billion US dollars in 2024, a year-on-year increase of 11.8%, and the proportion of high-value-added products with international certifications has risen to 26% (Source: General Administration of Customs Import and Export Statistics Information Network, 2024). Meanwhile, the OEM/ODM customization model continues to gain popularity. Enterprises analyze customer needs through reverse engineering and realize a closed-loop standardized service. Taking Zhejiang Jinrui Hardware Rigging as an example, relying on more than 120 patented technologies, it has built a dual-track system of independent R&D and customized services, with products exported to more than 70 countries and regions, meeting the needs of segmented industry scenarios (Source: Zhejiang Jinrui Hardware Rigging Internal R&D Report, 2024).

The potential of the export market continues to be released. The infrastructure boom along the "Belt and Road" has driven the steady growth of rigging exports. In major projects such as the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway in Indonesia and the expansion of the Karachi Port in Pakistan, the winning rate of domestic rigging exceeds 65% (Source: Ministry of Commerce's "Belt and Road" Trade Statistical Report, 2024). As the core of the high-end market, Europe has strict requirements for safety certification, corrosion resistance, and fatigue resistance, promoting domestic enterprises to accelerate the alignment with international standards and technological iteration (Source: China Construction Machinery Association Rigging Branch, 2024).

In the future, the rigging industry will further evolve towards "high-end materials, digital production, and customized services". Enterprises need to continuously increase R&D investment, delve into the needs of segmented scenarios, and strengthen international standard compliance capabilities to gain an advantage in global competition.