Development Trends of the Steel Cable Tray Industry

2025-11-24 01:01:22

Today, the global manufacturing industry is accelerating its restructuring. Localized production, globalized quality standards, comprehensive services, and intellectual property protection are the four major trends for world-leading cable tray manufacturers. These trends will shape the future direction of domestic steel cable tray companies, bringing profound transformations to the industry.

To stay competitive, enterprises should adopt new technologies, optimize sheet metal processing equipment, reduce the tray's own weight, and reinforce the upper/lower sidewalls and bottom annular stiffeners. This enhances the load-bearing capacity of cable trays, further improving product stability and safety.

Unlike traditional trays with sharp metal edges at bends, the new design eliminates sharp edges, preventing cables from being scratched during installation or crushed over long-term use. This not only greatly facilitates cable installation but also provides adequate protection for the cables.

Currently, there are tens of thousands of steel cable tray manufacturers and thousands of production-oriented enterprises in mainland China. However, most manufacturers still rely on outdated production models involving cutting, bending, and punching processes. A single product often requires three to four different types of equipment for segmented production, resulting in low efficiency. Additionally, limitations in tray length and manufacturing precision have become bottlenecks restricting the development of mainland Chinese manufacturers.

Is there a production model that offers unlimited length, high precision, and high efficiency? The answer is yes—only cold bending forming technology can achieve this. Cold bending forming technology boasts advantages such as producing a wide variety of section profiles, high production efficiency, scientific forming processes, and corresponding automated control.

Development Trends of the Steel Cable Tray Industry

From the overall industry development perspective, despite intense competition in the steel cable tray sector, enterprises can build brands by unremitting technological innovation, tackling technical challenges, strengthening internal management, focusing on high-quality product manufacturing, and adhering to the principles of integrity and high-quality services.

Under national macro-control, the steel cable tray market will enter a period of adjustment. Profit margins and product prices in the industry are increasingly becoming low-margin and rationalized.

To promote the healthy and sustainable development of the steel cable tray industry, national authorities and industry associations should formulate more standardized standards, guiding China's fiberglass-reinforced plastic (FRP) profile market toward a more rational and healthy direction.