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The French shelving market is valued at between €450 and €600 million, while the total materials handling market is over €3 billion.
The global shelving market is estimated at over $10 billion. Since 2020, the global racking market has shown a trend towards modernization and technological progress. Manufacturers are increasingly integrating warehouse management software and innovative systems such as pallet shuttles to meet customer demands for efficiency and time savings.
E-commerce, with annual growth of over 13%, is a major driver of demand, influencing the development and automation of storage facilities.
Intelligent shelving with features such as electronic labelling and RFID technology is emerging in the retail sector to improve stock management and customer interaction.
Racking market demand trends and key figures
Over the past two decades, significant changes have taken place, with a particular focus on technological advances that integrate sophisticated warehouse management software and innovative solutions such as the Pallet Shuttle to improve operator efficiency.
The European work furniture market was a playground for major exchanges, with North America and Western Europe being key players.
Italy is a major producer, exporting most of its production. France has a significant foreign trade deficit in this sector.
The shelving market is estimated at between 450 and 600 million euros, considerably less than the materials handling sector estimated at around 3 billion euros.
Demand for shelving is highly varied, and comes from a variety of segments, such as industry for heavy storage, logisticians, the retail trade for goods display and storage, offices for archiving and e-commerce.
The sector is split between large and medium-sized companies and a large number of very small businesses. Automation and intelligent storage solutions are gaining ground.
Regulations have played an important role in ensuring the safety of employees working with racking systems. Compliance with standards such as NF EN 15512 and the various safety coefficients is essential for manufacturers.
Players in the shelving market
- Averys: holding company with a broad portfolio of brands recognized for their expertise in industrial storage solutions.
- Duwic and Feralco: renowned for their industrial shelving solutions.
- Interroll: supplier of material handling solutions and systems.
- Mecalux France: technological innovations and warehouse optimization software.
- Stow International: pioneers in the development of storage solutions
- Gravittax and Elvedi: customized shelving solutions
- HMY: retail shelving specialists
- Provost and Rayonor: general-purpose shelving manufacturers
- Prodex and SSI Schaefer: integrators of large-scale storage solutions
- Manutan, general distributor
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1.1 Definition and scope of the study
A shelving also known as the gondola is a piece of furniture intended to be used of storage space which can be found in both warehouses and retail stores. From sizes and inventions different, shelving has also evolved over the past two decades, as Daniel Joly, General Manager of Mecalux France, pointed out in an interview: "For[20 years, our business] has not stopped growing change ».
The designed shelving is nowadays more complex technologically since they must now integrate software products of warehouse management and of the innovations such as the Pallet Shuttle, which optimizes the work of operators.
The sector, which is a market linked to the handling market, must therefore modernize forced march, forced to adapt to warehouse automation and the requirements of new customers: time savings and efficiency. Companies offering traditional shelving (static and dynamic) are under threat in a sector that has experienced a significant increase in the number of shelves strong increase in recent years, which has particularly benefited integrators.
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