The 2026 618 Sale is not only a mid-year event in the consumer and retail field, but also an important window for observing the direction of the industrial product procurement track.
The recent report on the industrial product procurement trends of small, medium and micro enterprises released by the leading domestic hardware industrial products e-commerce platform comprehensively outlines the current changes in my country’s industrial product procurement market: driven by the wave of digital intelligence, the entire market is undergoing profound structural adjustments, and technological upgrades represented by “lithium electrification” and “intelligence” have become the core engine driving market growth.
Report data shows that “new energy/power” represented by lithium batteries is the industry trend with the highest certainty at present, and the transaction volume of related categories accounts for 36.2% of the total transaction volume of the five major trends.
From the perspective of subdivided categories, the penetration rate of lithium battery products in the three major fields of power tools, transportation and storage, and cleaning supplies has reached as high as 93.7%, 98.4%, and 89.4% respectively. This data means that the stock replacement of traditional power tools has been basically completed, and it is a general consensus in the industry that lithium battery products have become the priority choice for corporate procurement.
At the same time, the “intelligent/digital upgrade” track shows strong growth potential, and related products currently cover 80 industrial product categories: among them, instruments and meters are the vanguard of intelligent transformation, with a penetration rate as high as 69.8%; tools such as smart wrenches with torque monitoring and Bluetooth transmission functions that can directly help companies reduce costs and increase efficiency have seen orders among small and medium-sized hardware processing companies soar by 220% year-on-year, highlighting the rapid increase in the acceptance of digital industrial products in the small, medium and micro markets.
In addition to technological upgrades, the demand boundaries for industrial product procurement are also constantly broadening, and are rapidly spreading from traditional manufacturing to more diversified fields.
During this 618 period, the first-level industries with the highest purchase volume growth include construction (177%), public administration/social security and social organizations (166%), agriculture/forestry/animal husbandry/fishery (163%), clearly demonstrating the strong recovery momentum in infrastructure construction and people’s livelihood-related fields.
Within the manufacturing industry, the comprehensive utilization of waste resources industry (256%), chemical fiber manufacturing industry (210%) and other industries have led the growth in procurement volume, which is enough to confirm that the green economy track and the upstream areas of the industrial chain are accelerating to embrace the digital procurement model.
From the perspective of regional market performance, eastern provinces such as Guangdong, Jiangsu, and Shanghai are still the main markets for industrial product procurement, but the most eye-catching increase comes from the strong rise of the central and western regions and sinking markets: Tibet, Guangxi, Gansu and other provinces have the highest increase in procurement volume in the country.
On the one hand, it shows that the coverage of digital procurement of industrial products is rapidly penetrating into remote areas. On the other hand, it is also highly consistent with the macro trend of the implementation of major national infrastructure projects and the transfer of new energy industries to the central and western regions, showing a diverse picture of industrial recovery and transformation across the country.
Industry insiders pointed out that the current changes in my country’s industrial product procurement market have not only brought new growth opportunities to relevant domestic production companies, but also provided reference practical samples for the upgrading of the global hardware industrial product supply chain.
