In January 2026, the Yongkang hardware market showed a complex and diverse situation, and its three major prosperity indexes and three major price indexes each experienced varying degrees of fluctuations.
Changes in these data have important reference value for practitioners in the hardware industry and the foreign trade market.
Let’s first look at Yongkang Hardware’s three major prosperity indices. They all showed a slight fluctuation trend in January 2026.
The market transaction prosperity index and foreign trade prosperity index increased slightly, while the production prosperity index decreased slightly.
As of January 2026, the trading prosperity index of Yongkang Hardware Market closed at 92.00 points, an increase of 0.17 points from the previous month.
From a sub-item perspective, the market demand prosperity index and the overall judgment prosperity index increased month-on-month, while the factor supply prosperity index and operating efficiency prosperity index fell slightly, showing a “two rises and two falls” pattern.
Among the eight major hardware industries, four industries, namely automobile industry, cup industry, electrical appliances and kitchenware, and leisure appliances, experienced month-on-month decreases, while four industries, door industry, power tools, technical equipment and metal materials, increased month-on-month, showing a pattern of “four increases and four decreases”.
Its expected prosperity index was 91.23 points, an increase of 0.25 points from the previous month.
The Yongkang Hardware Production Prosperity Index declined slightly in January, closing at 99.53 points, a month-on-month decrease of 0.91 points.
The four major sub-factors, supply prosperity index, market demand prosperity index, operating efficiency prosperity index and overall judgment prosperity index, all decreased month-on-month, showing a “downgrade across the board” pattern.
The eight major hardware industries also experienced “four increases and four decreases”. The automobile industry, cup industry, leisure appliances and metal materials industries increased month-on-month, while the door industry, power tools, electrical appliances and kitchenware and technical equipment industries decreased month-on-month.
The production expectation prosperity index was 96.59 points, a decrease of 2.95 points from the previous month.
In terms of the foreign trade prosperity index, it closed at 98.00 points as of January 2026, an increase of 0.68 points month-on-month.
The market demand prosperity index, operating efficiency prosperity index and overall judgment prosperity index increased month-on-month, while the factor supply prosperity index decreased month-on-month, showing a pattern of “three increases and one decrease”.
The eight major hardware industries are still “four rising and four falling”. The cup industry, power tools, electrical kitchenware and leisure appliances industries have increased month-on-month, while the automobile industry, door industry, technical equipment and metal materials industries have decreased month-on-month.
The foreign trade expected prosperity index was 95.76 points, down 1.44 points from the previous month.
Let’s talk about the three major price indexes of Yongkang Hardware, showing two rises and one fall.
The market transaction price index closed at 98.25 points, a month-on-month increase of 0.18 percentage points.
The power tools, electrical appliances and kitchenware and technical equipment industries increased month-on-month, with electrical appliances and kitchenware seeing the largest increase, up 1.55 percentage points month-on-month; leisure appliances remained the same month-on-month; the automobile industry, door industry, cup industry and metal materials industry decreased month-on-month, showing a pattern of “three increases, one level and four decreases”.
The producer price index closed at 101.95 points, an increase of 1.44 percentage points from the previous month.
The automobile industry, cup industry, electrical appliances and kitchenware, leisure appliances, technical equipment and metal materials industries increased month-on-month, with technical equipment having the largest increase, up 3.91 percentage points month-on-month; the door industry and power tool industry decreased month-on-month, showing a “six rises and two falls” pattern.
The foreign trade price index closed at 100.01 points, a month-on-month decrease of 0.07 percentage points.
The automobile industry, cup industry, and electrical appliances and kitchenware industries increased month-on-month, with the cup industry having the largest increase, up 4.56 percentage points month-on-month; the door industry, power tools, leisure appliances, technical equipment, and metal materials industries fell month-on-month, showing a “three rises and five falls” pattern.
Taken together, both the prosperity index and the price index of the Yongkang hardware market in January 2026 have certain fluctuations, and the performance of various industries is also uneven.
This not only brings challenges to hardware companies, but also contains opportunities for development.
Enterprises need to pay close attention to market dynamics and promptly adjust production and sales strategies according to index changes to better gain a foothold in the international market.
