Development of stainless steel cookware in the field of cookware

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Stainless steel cookware market status

The stainless steel kitchenware market has maintained a high growth rate in the past few years. Although the growth rate has slowed down, it still maintains a positive growth trend.
The global stainless steel kitchenware market will be approximately US$28 billion in 2023. The market size is estimated to be close to US$75.4 billion by 2029, with a CAGR of 5.2% in the next six years. From a global perspective, the stainless steel cookware market is less concentrated. Due to mature production technology, suppliers are located all over the world. From a regional perspective, it is mainly consumed in Europe, North America and Asia. Europe’s consumption share is 34%. Asia’s consumption accounts for 41% of global consumption.
China’s stainless steel kitchenware market is mainly distributed in China’s coastal areas such as Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other provinces. These areas have strong manufacturing capabilities and supply chain advantages, and have become the main gathering places for the stainless steel kitchenware industry.
Stainless steel cookware trends
The development of stainless steel cookware has entered the 3.0 era from the 2.0 era. From traditional pots to the 3.0 era that pursues functionality and appearance.
It has higher requirements on health and environmental protection. In addition to being durable, it must also be non-toxic, odorless and easy to clean. Health and environmental protection will become a major development trend in the stainless steel kitchenware market.
There are more and more customized pots and pans, which is also the result of the growing consumer demand and the increasingly fierce competition in the market. Customized cookware can gain market share faster.
Factories are competing to become more intelligent. The application of robots has accelerated the automation of production. Time and cost advantages have been improved to varying degrees, and product quality is more controllable.
In general, my country’s stainless steel kitchenware market has broad prospects, but competition is fierce. Enterprises need to continuously innovate, improve product quality and service levels, pay attention to changes in consumer demand, and strengthen brand building and market expansion to gain greater market share. At the same time, it pays attention to development and environmental protection, which is in line with consumers’ awareness of health and sustainable development.

The development of coated and uncoated stainless steel cookware

Uncoated stainless steel cookware continues to work hard on materials to develop stainless steel with better performance and create more durable cookware. The current research directions mainly include the following aspects.
1.New materials
Clean stainless steel is a kind of pure ultra-pure stainless steel material with high purity, low impurity content, corrosion resistance and anti-oxidation properties. Clean stainless steel has a smooth surface without any obvious precipitation and particles, and is safe and harmless to the environment and human body.
2. Cost control
As the cost of nickel elements in stainless steel increases, manganese or copper elements are used to replace part of the nickel elements to reduce the amount of nickel elements. Thereby controlling the cost of Bancun.
3. Lightweight
A big feature of stainless steel cookware is that it is relatively heavy and not so convenient to use. Through the integration of alloying, casting technology, control technology, etc., new materials that are lightweight, have excellent strength, toughness, and corrosion resistance have been developed.

Coating is mainly spraying coating on the surface of stainless steel pot to achieve non-stick effect. The current development of coatings is mainly Teflon coating and ceramic coating. There are many names of non-stick pans on the market, such as Maifanchang non-stick pan, honeycomb non-stick pan, diamond non-stick pan, titanium crystal non-stick pan, titanium black non-stick pan, black crystal non-stick pan, etc. Fluoron coating.

Stainless Steel Cookware Home and Commercial Market

Household cooking utensils are generally small in size, beautiful and come in many varieties and styles. Commercial kitchen equipment refers to large and medium-sized kitchen equipment suitable for hotels, restaurants, restaurants and other catering places as well as various government agencies, schools, construction site canteens; its characteristics are a wide range of products, specifications, models, power, capacity and other aspects. Home kitchen equipment is much larger and more expensive.
The market for household cookware is much larger than that for commercial use, and the demand is also much greater.
Relatively speaking, there are far fewer manufacturers of commercial kitchenware than those for home use, and there are not as many styles and functions as there are for home use. Commercial ones will have higher requirements for after-sales service and will involve some installation and debugging issues. The profit will also be higher than that for home use.

Conclusion

The stainless steel cookware industry is a highly competitive industry with many players, including well-known global brands, national and regional brands, and unbranded products.
The stainless steel cookware industry is also an industry with great development potential and market space. Especially Europe, South America and Southeast Asia have strong demand for cookware products. At the same time, the products are constantly improving. As consumables, there is a repeated market demand for continuous purchases.
But it is also an industry with fierce competition. There are many old factory brands that are more than 20 or 30 years old. If you want to gain an advantageous position in the market competition, you need to have strong brand advantages, technical advantages and channel advantages, and continue to innovate and improve. .
It can be seen that for cookware companies, how to develop and design, expand channels, improve production advantages, and reduce costs will become the focus and development direction of stainless steel track competition.