Development of China's Pallet Market in 2025

In 2025, logistics operations will maintain a moderate growth trend. New quality productivity will empower industrial transformation and upgrading, build an open international pallet sharing platform, deepen the promotion of strip transportation, accelerate digital transformation, update and iterate automation equipment, and effectively implement the concept of green development. The renewal, iteration, and further development of the industry will reshape the demand for pallet use, bring new opportunities, inject new momentum, and open up new prospects for the development of the pallet industry. At the same time, it will also put forward higher requirements for the high-quality development of the pallet industry.

To cope with the new pattern, pallet enterprises should continue to innovate, comprehensively plan the development of products and services, delve into application scenarios, combine technological innovation, provide gradient products, and run through the entire chain of services. They should focus on promoting the high-quality development of the pallet industry in four aspects: standardization, sharing, digitization, and greening, and provide important support for the efficient and stable operation of the supply chain industry chain.

1. The application scenarios are becoming increasingly mature, and tray recycling and sharing have entered a new stage

Over the years, relevant national policies have vigorously promoted pallet recycling and transportation with pallets, aiming to effectively reduce logistics costs for the whole society. Enterprises have focused on the "dual carbon" goal and steadily promoted the concept of green development. The orderly implementation of the Pallet Sharing Action (BRAPS) has promoted pallet recycling and transportation towards a high-speed development stage. In the future, we need to further build a tray sharing ecosystem, deepen the concept of tray recycling and sharing, cultivate cross regional and cross industry tray recycling and sharing, and strengthen the construction of domestic and international tray recycling and sharing systems. Tray operation enterprises will also continue to strengthen communication and cooperation among enterprises, increase business development and investment, use digital means, leverage the role of tray sharing action mechanism, carry out tray sharing domestically and internationally, fully play the role of tray as a link service in the supply chain, and will inevitably trigger a new round of tray circular sharing with Chinese characteristics, thereby better promoting cost reduction and efficiency improvement in the supply chain.

2. Industry and society are driven by diversity, and transportation with boards is facing opportunities

With the innovative development of the supply chain, there will be a huge demand for pallets, and more pallets will leave warehouses and logistics parks to be promoted and used in various transportation modes such as public transportation, rail transportation, and water transportation. Give full play to the connecting role of pallets in the supply chain, promote efficient connection between warehousing, transportation, and distribution through board transportation, and integrate the use of pallets throughout various links such as procurement, production, sales, and distribution, achieving information sharing and collaborative operations at all nodes of the supply chain. With the increasing standardization of freight vehicle models, the competition among logistics enterprises will shift from single vehicle capacity to improving cargo turnover efficiency. The use of pallets is the most effective tool for achieving rapid loading and unloading and handling. With the development of digitization and intelligence, the arrival of unmanned logistics era inevitably requires the realization of cargo modularization. Currently, China's manufacturing industry is accelerating its overseas expansion, which has promoted the increase of cross-border board transportation business volume.

3. Innovation and upgrading of digital technology, comprehensive penetration of intelligent services

In the future, digitalization of pallets will be widely promoted, and digital pallets will be more widely used in logistics and supply chains. Tray companies will continue to enhance their digital service capabilities in the supply chain field, making trays not only a single unit logistics tool for carrying goods, but also more widely used in goods management, asset management, and monitoring of goods in transit, connecting upstream and downstream, achieving digital driving and collaborative sharing. Through a digital management platform, integrate and analyze data to uncover the value behind it.

4. Deepen the concept of green development and build a sustainable development system

Promote green innovation in the tray industry, vigorously develop green technologies, strictly control raw material sources, promote the use of green and sustainable raw materials, improve resource and waste recycling rates, strengthen tray maintenance, establish a sound recycling system, and effectively achieve green and sustainable social development. The application of green new material pallets not only expands the usage scenarios and scope of pallets, but also contributes to environmental protection. Therefore, improving the research and development capabilities of green and lightweight composite new materials, expanding the scale production and application of new material pallets, are the future development directions of the pallet industry.