A flawed but crucial player in livestock products

In the overseas market, slatted flooring products are highly popular across multiple livestock categories, with promising market prospects driven by expanding scale, policy support, and technological advancements.
For pigs, slatted flooring is one of the best-selling types. Brands like Germany’s PREMIUMFLOOR GmbH offer the PremiumBloF panel series, with 10mm panels suitable for piglets from weaning to finishing and 14mm panels for those over 15kg in the finishing stage. Meanwhile, brands such as Pigline from the US and Stal from Sweden also specialize in pig slatted flooring, catering to different pig house scenarios, addressing manure management and bed cleaning issues, and ensuring pig health.

For poultry like chickens and ducks, the demand for slatted flooring is also robust. Big Dutchman has developed plastic slat flooring specifically for ducks, improving breeding hygiene and reducing bedding usage. The SLAT GALLINAS plastic slatted flooring, designed for hens and breeder chickens in brooding, growing, and laying stages, features a soft, slip-resistant virgin plastic material that doesn’t harm poultry bones and efficiently drains manure, with its products sold in 81 countries.

Slatted flooring for cattle, sheep, and goats also holds a certain market share. PREMIUMFLOOR’s panels can be used in calf boxes, milking parlors, and sheep and goat breeding scenarios. JFC’s calf slats are weather-resistant and tough, suitable for group pens, reducing bedding costs and cleaning cycles. Additionally, plastic slatted flooring for goats and sheep, with easy installation and high durability, has stable orders in the overseas market, with unit prices mostly ranging from $3 to $49.

In terms of market prospects, the market scale is continuously expanding. Plastic slatted flooring is the mainstream in the overseas market, with a global market size of approximately $1.2 billion in 2023, expected to reach $2.3 billion by 2032, with a compound annual growth rate of about 6.5%. The Asia-Pacific region is a major market; for example, Southeast Asian countries, due to capacity reconstruction after African swine fever, saw a 67% year-on-year increase in imports of breeding equipment from China in 2024. The North American and European markets will also grow significantly due to strict waste management regulations and emphasis on sustainable agriculture.
Driven by both policies and demand, countries worldwide are increasingly demanding environmental protection and animal welfare in the breeding industry. Slatted flooring can reduce manure pollution and the risk of disease transmission, aligning with the trend of sustainable breeding. Meanwhile, countries like Vietnam and Thailand have reduced import tariffs on modular slatted flooring, further stimulating market demand.
Technological upgrades are promoting market expansion. Currently, slatted flooring materials are evolving towards more durable and environmentally friendly options, such as products made of high-density polyethylene, polypropylene, and BMC composite plastics, which are corrosion-resistant, easy to clean, and recyclable. In addition, customized products for different animal growth stages are increasing, such as slip-resistant and injury-preventing panels for piglets, calves, and other young animals, further broadening market application scenarios and injecting continuous momentum into industry growth.