Labor protection products market continues to grow, reaching $55 billion in 2020

On November 1, 2017, eBay released the "New Thinking of Exports - Labor Protection Products Directly to the Global Market" report.Safety shoes,Work shoes

The report pointed out that benefiting from the increasingly strict occupational health and safety supervision of employers, the improvement of workers' health and legal awareness, and the continuous expansion of peripheral technical equipment, the global labor protection products market has continued to grow in recent years, and has brought cross-border e-commerce. New opportunities.

According to the market research institutions MatrixInsign and Grandview's property line, the global labor protection products market has reached 38.4 billion US dollars in 2015, of which the EU market size reached 13.4 billion US dollars. The North American market is worth $11.1 billion.

It is estimated that the global market size of PPE (labor supplies) will reach 55 billion US dollars in 2020, and the market share of North America and the EU will be 70%.

On the eBay platform, PPE is one of the fastest growing categories in the world, and has maintained rapid growth for many years. Currently, on the eBay platform, a professional labor protection product is sold every 4 seconds; every 6 seconds, 1 labor protection glove is sold; every 7 seconds, 1 tool or protective clothing is sold; every 15 seconds, sold 1 pair of safety shoes.

According to eBay, labor protection products are designed to protect employees from serious work injuries or illnesses caused by exposure to chemical radiation, electrical equipment, manpower equipment, mechanical equipment or in hazardous workplaces.

At present, countries around the world have successively established and improved laws and regulations related to labor protection, and emphasized that enterprises should provide protective equipment for workers. At the same time, with the increase in income levels and social civilization, more and more workers spontaneously purchase labor and defense supplies, and are willing to pay higher prices for high-quality labor protection products.

In addition, the concept of labor protection is being monitored and protected from the physical protection of workers to the potential risks of the working environment, upgrading the protection system of labor places, and equipped with more humanized and intelligent monitoring and protection equipment. The focus of protection regulations is on the target. As a result, many peripheral technology and equipment are gradually selling, and demand is growing rapidly.

From the perspective of China's industry, at present, China's labor and defense supplies industry is huge, and has formed a series of industrial clusters:

In the Bohai Bay area, Beijing has a large number of helmet manufacturing companies, and Shandong and Hebei have a large number of protective gloves manufacturers;

In the Yangtze River Delta region, Shanghai and Zhejiang have a large number of safety shoes, protective gloves, helmets and mask mask manufacturers, Jiangsu's helmet and protective gloves industry is also quite developed;

In the Pearl River Delta region, Guangdong Province has mature industrial bases for protective gloves, helmets and masks;

In the inland areas, the medical protective consumables industry in Hubei Province is eye-catching.

These industrial clusters are highly coincident with cross-border e-commerce hotspots: According to eBay platform data, in 2016, the provinces ranked among the top five cross-border e-commerce exports, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Beijing, and Jiangsu are the top five, Shandong, Hubei ranked eighth and ninth.