Automotive Steel Pipe Research: the global market size is projected to grow from USD 11030.58 million in 2025 to USD 12796.66 million by 2031

QY Research Inc. (Global Market Report Research Publisher) announces the release of 2025 latest report "Automotive Steel Pipe- Global Market Share and Ranking, Overall Sales and Demand Forecast 2026-2032". Based on current situation and impact historical analysis (2020-2024) and forecast calculations (2026-2032), this report provides a comprehensive analysis of the global Automotive Steel Pipe market, including market size, share, demand, industry development status, and forecasts for the next few years.

The global market for Automotive Steel Pipe was estimated to be worth US$ 10665 million in 2025 and is projected to reach US$ million, growing at a CAGR of % from 2026 to 2032.

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Automotive Steel Pipe

Automotive steel pipes are specialized steel tubing products used across key vehicle systems such as chassis, powertrain, braking, engine, exhaust and structural components. They are typically manufactured from seamless or precision welded steel tubes through processes such as cold drawing, hot rolling, precision forming, heat treatment and anti-corrosion coating, enabling them to meet strict automotive requirements for strength, toughness, pressure resistance, high-temperature durability, corrosion resistance and lightweight performance. These steel pipes are widely applied in brake lines, fuel lines, exhaust systems, steering components, suspension links, shock-absorber cylinders, driveshaft sleeves, seat frames, body reinforcement structures and the cooling circuits of new-energy vehicle battery systems. As automotive lightweighting, electrification and advanced cooling systems evolve, the use of high-strength steel, alloy steel, corrosion-resistant steel and thin-wall precision tubes continues to increase, driving ongoing upgrades and technological advancement in the automotive steel pipe industry.

According to the new market research report "2025-2031 Global and China Automotive Steel Pipe Market Status and Forecast ", published by QYResearch, the global Automotive Steel Pipe market size is projected to grow from USD 11030.58 million in 2025 to USD 12796.66 million by 2031, at a CAGR of 2.5% during the forecast period.

Market Drivers:

The continued expansion of the global passenger and commercial vehicle markets forms the fundamental driving force for the growth in demand for automotive steel pipes. With economic development and urbanization, transportation demands are constantly rising, leading to a simultaneous increase in the amount of pipe used in chassis, transmission systems, braking lines, and body structural components. This is particularly evident in emerging markets such as Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East, where accelerated automotive production capacity expansion is creating even stronger demand for structural and functional pipes, providing long-term growth potential for the industry. Driven by the "dual-carbon goals" and global energy-saving regulations, automotive manufacturing is accelerating its transformation towards lightweighting. High-strength thin-walled steel pipes, precision welded pipes, and composite coated pipes are gradually replacing traditional seamless pipes. By optimizing material properties and pipe structures, high safety and reliability are maintained while reducing overall vehicle weight, driving the coordinated upgrading of high-performance steel pipes, production equipment, and testing technologies. The development of new energy vehicles and intelligent connected vehicles has also brought about new system structure and thermal management requirements. Battery cooling systems, high-voltage circuit pipelines, hydrogen fuel storage and transportation systems, and heat dissipation channels for electronic control units all require special steel pipes with high thermal conductivity, corrosion resistance, and insulation properties. The industry is accelerating the research and development of high-pressure sealing pipes and multi-layer composite pipes suitable for electric drive platforms, expanding the application boundaries of automotive steel pipes in new energy power systems. At the same time, the gradual implementation of emission standards such as Euro VII and China VII has placed more stringent requirements on the temperature resistance, corrosion resistance, and structural sealing of exhaust systems, fuel delivery pipelines, and exhaust after-treatment devices. Manufacturers are using high-precision welding, automated testing, and advanced surface protection processes to ensure the long-term stable operation of steel pipes in high-temperature and chemical media environments. The strengthening of global automotive safety regulations is further driving the continuous innovation of high-strength structural pipes, improving the overall vehicle safety performance and system reliability.

Restraint:

The tightening of environmental policies in the steel industry has placed stricter constraints on steelmaking enterprises in terms of production restrictions, emission limits, and carbon emission compliance. This impact is particularly pronounced during the winter off-peak production period, leading to a tighter supply and more frequent price fluctuations in high-quality carbon steel plates and strips. Downstream automotive steel pipe companies face greater uncertainty in procurement costs, inventory control, and production planning, resulting in rising operational risks and supply chain pressures. Meanwhile, the prices of bulk raw materials such as iron ore and coking coal fluctuate significantly due to global supply and demand, shipping costs, and geopolitical factors. This, coupled with the impact of RMB exchange rate fluctuations on both imported raw material costs and export revenues, further compresses profit margins and increases the difficulty of financial management and risk hedging. As leading steel companies continuously strengthen their market share and bargaining power through mergers and acquisitions, integrated steel-pipe production, and global expansion, small and medium-sized steel pipe enterprises struggle to compete in terms of technology, capital, and distribution channels. If they fail to upgrade their technology or develop differentiated competitive strategies in a timely manner, they face the risk of marginalization, consolidation, or elimination, leading to an increasingly concentrated competitive landscape among industry leaders. At the same time, to meet the demands of high-precision, high-efficiency, and intelligent production, enterprises must introduce advanced equipment such as laser cutting, CNC pipe bending, online inspection, and intelligent production lines. These investments are substantial, have long payback periods, and involve costs for software systems, personnel training, and equipment maintenance. This places SMEs under greater pressure on capital expenditures and increases the risk of profit fluctuations during the upgrade process.

Opportunity:

As the automotive industry's requirements for fuel economy, emission control, and collision safety continue to rise, high-strength thin-walled tubes, duplex steel, and ultra-high-strength steel tubes are gradually becoming mainstream materials. By optimizing cross-sectional structures, material ratios, and heat treatment processes, automotive steel tubes can significantly reduce vehicle weight while still meeting structural stiffness and load-bearing capacity requirements, driving the industry towards high-tech and high-value-added upgrades, and providing key support for automotive lightweighting and energy conservation and emission reduction. The accelerated popularization of electrification and hydrogen energy technologies places higher demands on battery thermal management, high-pressure cooling circuits, energy storage systems, and hydrogen fuel delivery pipelines for pressure resistance, corrosion resistance, high-temperature resistance, and sealing performance. The industry is accelerating the development of multi-layer composite tubes, special alloy tubes, and high-precision clean pipelines to meet the reliability requirements of electric drive systems, hydrogen power, and exhaust after-treatment, leading to a continuous increase in the application ratio of automotive steel tubes in new energy and intelligent vehicles. In the future, the industry will rely more on the Industrial Internet, online inspection, MES systems, big data analytics, and predictive maintenance to achieve intelligent production management. Automation and digital control will ensure weld quality, pipe consistency, batch traceability, and zero-defect delivery, reducing recall risks and improving the reliability and production efficiency of the entire vehicle system. Simultaneously, collaboration between upstream raw material suppliers and downstream vehicle manufacturers will deepen. Steel mills and pipe manufacturers will advance supply chain lock-in and specification standardization through strategic cooperation, long-term agreements, and joint R&D. International procurement combined with localized production will also become a key path to reduce costs, shorten delivery cycles, and improve compliance. In the future, supply chain collaboration, standardization, and globalization will become important directions for the automotive steel pipe industry to enhance its competitiveness and profitability.

The report provides a detailed analysis of the market size, growth potential, and key trends for each segment. Through detailed analysis, industry players can identify profit opportunities, develop strategies for specific customer segments, and allocate resources effectively.

The Automotive Steel Pipe market is segmented as below:
By Company
Nippon Steel
The Fischer Group
Arcelormittal
Benteler
Cleveland-Cliffs
Salzgitter AG
JFE Steel
Tata Steel
SeAH FS
Marcegaglia
Hyundai Steel
Nucor Corporation
Mubea
TMK Group
Hongyi Precision
Tenaris
Outokumpu
Zhida Precision
Yongli Precision
Liwan Precision
Baowu
Zeleziarne Podbrezova
Ningjiang Shanchuan
Maxim Tubes Company
Jindal Saw
Changbao Steeltube
HYST
Sujia Group
Centravis
VALLOUREC
WST
CSM Tube
Shanghai Zunma
Shenbao Gangguan

Segment by Type
Stainless
Welded
Seamless

Segment by Application
Passenger Car
Commercial Vehicle

Each chapter of the report provides detailed information for readers to further understand the Automotive Steel Pipe market:

Chapter 1: Introduces the report scope of the Automotive Steel Pipe report, global total market size (valve, volume and price). This chapter also provides the market dynamics, latest developments of the market, the driving factors and restrictive factors of the market, the challenges and risks faced by manufacturers in the industry, and the analysis of relevant policies in the industry. (2021-2032)
Chapter 2: Detailed analysis of Automotive Steel Pipe manufacturers competitive landscape, price, sales and revenue market share, latest development plan, merger, and acquisition information, etc. (2021-2026)
Chapter 3: Provides the analysis of various Automotive Steel Pipe market segments by Type, covering the market size and development potential of each market segment, to help readers find the blue ocean market in different market segments. (2021-2032)
Chapter 4: Provides the analysis of various market segments by Application, covering the market size and development potential of each market segment, to help readers find the blue ocean market in different downstream markets.(2021-2032)
Chapter 5: Sales, revenue of Automotive Steel Pipe in regional level. It provides a quantitative analysis of the market size and development potential of each region and introduces the market development, future development prospects, market space, and market size of each country in the world..(2021-2032)
Chapter 6: Sales, revenue of Automotive Steel Pipe in country level. It provides sigmate data by Type, and by Application for each country/region.(2021-2032)
Chapter 7: Provides profiles of key players, introducing the basic situation of the main companies in the market in detail, including product sales, revenue, price, gross margin, product introduction, recent development, etc. (2021-2026)
Chapter 8: Analysis of industrial chain, including the upstream and downstream of the industry.
Chapter 9: Conclusion.

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Industry Analysis: QYResearch provides Automotive Steel Pipe comprehensive industry data and trend analysis, including raw material analysis, market application analysis, product type analysis, market demand analysis, market supply analysis, downstream market analysis, and supply chain analysis.

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