Lift Support | Market Size, Share & Growth Report 2025-2033
The Lift Support Market Report is Segmented by Product Type (Gas Springs, Struts, Dampers, Actuators, and Others), Application (Automotive, Furniture, Aerospace, Industrial, and Others), Material Type (Steel, Aluminum, Composite, Plastic, and Others).
Lift Support Market
Market Analysis
How the market stands today, and what is shaping it
The global lift support market was estimated at approximately USD 4.48 billion in 2025, based on Core Market Research estimates. It is projected to reach around USD 7.41 billion by 2033, representing a CAGR of approximately 6.50% from 2025 to 2033. The market covers gas springs, struts, dampers and powered actuators, built predominantly in steel with aluminium where mass matters, and supplied into automotive, furniture, aerospace and industrial applications. Growth rests on the substitution of powered spindle drives for passive counterbalance, because a powered tailgate assembly is considerably more expensive than the pair of gas springs it replaces and Stabilus holds only 31 percent of that category against 73 percent of automotive gas springs. The principal constraint is the automotive cycle: Stabilus recorded a 10 percent decline in automotive revenue in the fiscal year ended 30 September 2025, with its adjusted margin falling from 12.0 percent to 11.0 percent. Stabilus, SUSPA, Bansbach easylift and Lesjöfors have been assessed at 52 percent of the market together. Europe holds the largest documented position, with the leader reporting EUR 542.2 million there against EUR 273.0 million in Asia-Pacific.
Market Dynamics
Key market dynamics and their impact on the industry landscape
Market Drivers
- Powered tailgates are replacing passive counterbalance on the body styles that sell best. Stabilus holds 31 percent with its Powerise electric drives alongside 73 percent of automotive gas springs, and a spindle drive replaces two gas springs with a costlier assembly, so content per vehicle rises without a change in unit count.
- Brose has developed a power liftgate with a springless spindle drive intended to cut weight and cost from the assembly. Removing the counterbalance spring simplifies the part and lowers its mass, which matters on a tailgate where the load sits at the extreme rear and affects range and handling.
- Aerospace and industrial qualification requirements sustain pricing that automotive tendering does not. A gas spring holding an aircraft access panel is certified to the airframe rather than sold on unit price, which is why Stabilus has built its position on more than 2,500 active patents rather than only on manufacturing cost.
- Industrial automation demand carried the leader through an automotive downturn. Stabilus reported 61 percent growth in Industrial Machinery and Automation revenue in the fiscal year ended 30 September 2025, against a 10 percent decline in automotive, which shows that the industrial channel can fund development when vehicle programmes weaken.
- Acquisition is the main route to scale in this market. Dover Corporation sold DESTACO to Stabilus on 1 April 2024 at an enterprise value of USD 680 million, and Lesjöfors acquired International Industrial Springs, so the leading suppliers are adding adjacent motion and spring capability rather than building it internally.
Market Challenges
- The automotive application, which sets the market's direction, is contracting. Stabilus recorded a 10 percent decline in automotive revenue across its gas spring and powered drive lines in the fiscal year ended 30 September 2025. Because the same decline also reduces the higher-value powered actuator content, the revenue effect is larger than a unit count would suggest.
- Margins are compressing at the market leader. Stabilus reported adjusted operating profit of EUR 142.6 million for the fiscal year ended 30 September 2025, down from EUR 157.1 million, with the adjusted margin falling from 12.0 percent to 11.0 percent on revenue of EUR 1,296.1 million. A margin decline at the supplier with a 73 percent automotive gas spring share indicates pricing pressure that smaller participants face more acutely.
- The core product is a machined steel commodity. A gas spring is a sealed cylinder of pressurised nitrogen with a sliding seal, made to tolerances that a competent machine shop can hold, which is why the barrier to entry is distribution and qualification rather than technology. That structure keeps prices under pressure across the applications where certification is not required.
- End-market demand moves in opposite directions at the same time. In the fiscal year ended 30 September 2025 Stabilus recorded Energy and Construction revenue down 23 percent, Automotive down 10 percent, Health, Recreation and Furniture down 5 percent and Commercial Vehicles down 5 percent, while Industrial Machinery and Automation rose 61 percent. Capacity planned against one of those trends is wrong for the others.
- Asia-Pacific revenue is falling for the leading supplier even though the region holds the largest vehicle and furniture production base. Stabilus reported a 12.4 percent decline to EUR 273.0 million in the fiscal year ended 30 September 2025, which suggests European and American suppliers are losing value share in the region rather than that regional demand has contracted.
Opportunities
- Powered drives could continue to raise revenue per vehicle even where vehicle volumes are flat. Stabilus holds 31 percent of the powered drive market against 73 percent of automotive gas springs, so the category where its position is weaker is also the one with more value per unit, and closing that gap may matter more than volume growth.
- Springless powered designs may reset the cost structure. Brose's power liftgate with a springless spindle is intended to reduce weight and cost, and if that architecture is adopted more widely it could remove the passive gas spring from powered applications entirely, shifting value between the product categories this market covers.
- Industrial automation has potential to become the stabilising half of the business. Stabilus grew Industrial Machinery and Automation revenue 61 percent in the fiscal year ended 30 September 2025 following the DESTACO acquisition, and a supplier with that counterweight may be able to hold development spending steady through an automotive cycle.
- Consolidation could continue to reduce the number of independent competitors. ACE Controls and HAHN Gasfedern moved from SKF to Stabilus on 30 June 2016, DESTACO moved from Dover on 1 April 2024, and Lesjöfors acquired International Industrial Springs, so remaining mid-sized specialists may attract similar interest.
- Asia-Pacific recovery could be a larger opportunity than the current figures imply. Stabilus revenue in the region fell 12.4 percent to EUR 273.0 million in fiscal 2025 while the region holds the largest vehicle and furniture production base, which suggests the addressable volume is well above the value currently captured there.
Trends and Insights
Key market trends shaping the industry landscape
Value Shifting From Springs To Drives
High impactMid-termStabilus holds 73 percent of automotive gas springs but only 31 percent of the powered drive market with Powerise, while powered tailgates spread across sport utility and light truck body styles.
Insight: The category where the leader is strongest is the one losing relative value. A market measured in units looks stable while a market measured in revenue migrates toward electrically driven assemblies, which is why unit-based reasoning understates the change under way.
Diversification Away From Automotive
High impactShort-termStabilus grew Industrial Machinery and Automation revenue 61 percent in the fiscal year ended 30 September 2025 through the DESTACO acquisition, while its automotive revenue fell 10 percent.
Insight: The leading supplier is deliberately reducing its dependence on the application that defines this market. That is a judgement about automotive returns rather than about lift supports, and it suggests the sector's strongest participant sees limited margin recovery in vehicle programmes.
Consolidation Through Corporate Carve-Outs
Medium impactLong-termACE Controls and HAHN Gasfedern moved from SKF to Stabilus on 30 June 2016, and DESTACO moved from Dover Corporation to Stabilus on 1 April 2024 at USD 680 million enterprise value.
Insight: Large diversified industrial groups have been selling motion control units to a specialist rather than the reverse. Ownership is concentrating in companies for which this is the core business, which tends to raise investment in the category even as the number of independent names falls.
Regional Revenue Diverging From Production
Medium impactMid-termStabilus reported European, Middle Eastern and African revenue up 3.2 percent to EUR 542.2 million while Asia-Pacific fell 12.4 percent to EUR 273.0 million in the fiscal year ended 30 September 2025.
Insight: Where the units are made and where the revenue is booked have come apart. Asia holds the larger production base, so the gap points to local competition on price rather than to weaker demand, which is a harder problem for an incumbent to address than a cyclical decline.
Springless Architecture In Powered Units
Medium impactLong-termBrose has developed a power liftgate with a springless spindle drive aimed at reducing weight and cost in the assembly.
Insight: A powered drive that no longer needs a counterbalance spring removes a component from the vehicle and a product line from a supplier's scope. Where that design is adopted, the passive and powered categories stop being complementary and begin to substitute for one another.
Segment Analysis
Market segmentation by product type, application, material type
Gas springs are the product the market is named after and the one with the deepest supply base, and Stabilus reports a 73 percent share of automotive gas springs within its automotive business unit. A gas spring is a sealed cylinder of pressurised nitrogen that holds a panel open without external power, and its economics are those of a precision-machined commodity. Struts are the same device specified for a structural load path rather than only for counterbalance. Dampers control the speed of a movement rather than supporting the weight, which is why they appear alongside gas springs in furniture and in hood applications rather than competing with them. Actuators are the powered category and the fastest-changing part of the market: an electric spindle drive opens a tailgate under its own power, and Stabilus holds a 31 percent share of its Powerise powered drives. Brose has taken a different route with a springless spindle drive intended to remove weight and cost from the assembly.
Geography Analysis
Regional market analysis
North America
The region is the manufacturing and demand base that the market leader has been expanding into, and Stabilus attributed part of its revenue growth in the fiscal year ended 30 September 2025 to an expanded Americas footprint alongside the DESTACO integration. DESTACO itself came from Dover Corporation, a United States industrial group, at an enterprise value of USD 680 million on 1 April 2024, so the region supplied the largest single acquisition in the sector in recent years. On the demand side, the region's weight in this market comes from light truck and sport utility vehicle production, because those body styles carry a powered tailgate more often than saloons do and therefore consume the higher-value actuator product rather than the passive gas spring. ACE Controls Inc., based in the United States, has been part of the Stabilus Group since 30 June 2016 and supplies the industrial damping range. No published figure reports lift support revenue for the region on its own.
Europe
Europe holds the largest position in this market on the regional evidence available. Stabilus SE reported company-wide revenue of EUR 542.2 million across Europe, the Middle East and Africa in the fiscal year ended 30 September 2025, covering all its product lines. That was up 3.2 percent from EUR 525.5 million, against EUR 273.0 million in Asia-Pacific, which fell 12.4 percent. That is the market leader's own revenue rather than a measure of the regional market. No research firm or participant publishes lift support revenue by region, so no regional market size, revenue or growth figure was identified for this market, and the ranking rests on documented manufacturing and commercial concentration instead. The structural case is stronger than the revenue case: four of the five leading suppliers are headquartered in Germany or Sweden, in Stabilus SE, SUSPA GmbH, Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. KG, Bansbach easylift GmbH and Beijer Alma AB through Lesjöfors, whose works at Lesjöfors date to 1675 and whose spring production began in 1852. The regional ranking therefore rests on documented manufacturing and commercial concentration rather than on a published regional market size.
Asia Pacific
Asia Pacific was the weakest region for the market leader in the most recent year, with Stabilus reporting a 12.4 percent decline in its Asia-Pacific revenue to EUR 273.0 million in the fiscal year ended 30 September 2025. That is a company figure covering all of its product lines rather than a measure of the regional market, and no participant publishes lift support revenue for the region on its own. The region nonetheless holds the largest vehicle and furniture production base in the world, which creates a structural tension: unit demand should be concentrated here while the disclosed revenue of European suppliers is not. The most likely explanation is price rather than volume, since a regional supply base competing on machined steel commodity products holds down the value captured per unit. Chinese vehicle manufacturers have also adopted powered tailgates rapidly, which raises the actuator content per vehicle in a market where passive gas springs are cheapest to source locally.
Latin America
No published figure reports lift support revenue, gas spring shipments or powered tailgate fitment for Latin America, and the region does not appear in the regional split that Stabilus SE discloses, which separates Europe, the Middle East and Africa from the Americas and Asia-Pacific. The region is folded into the Americas in that reporting, which leaves it indistinguishable from North American revenue. Its structural role is vehicle assembly rather than component manufacture: Mexican and Brazilian plants build vehicles that require gas springs and, increasingly, powered tailgate drives, but those units are normally supplied from plants elsewhere. Furniture manufacture in Brazil provides a second demand source, though the volumes are domestic rather than export-oriented. The regional position is therefore documented as an assembly and consumption relationship rather than measured as a market, and no regional size or growth figure was identified.
Middle East & Africa
This region is not separately measured in this market. Stabilus SE reports it inside a combined Europe, Middle East and Africa figure of EUR 542.2 million for the fiscal year ended 30 September 2025, which cannot be disaggregated, and no other participant publishes a regional split at all. The region has no gas spring or powered actuator manufacturing base, and none of the five leading suppliers operates a production site here. Demand arrives inside finished vehicles and finished furniture rather than as component purchases, which places the region at the end of the supply chain rather than inside it. South Africa's vehicle assembly industry is the one route by which component demand could arise locally, since assembled vehicles need the gas springs and drives fitted on the line. The regional ranking rests on that assembly and import structure rather than on any published regional market size or growth figure.
Competitive Landscape
Key players and market positioning analysis
One company sets the terms in this market and the rest position around it. Stabilus SE reported revenue of EUR 1,296.1 million across all its product lines for the fiscal year ended 30 September 2025. Within its automotive business unit it holds a 73 percent share of gas springs and a 31 percent share for its Powerise powered drives, supported by more than 2,500 active patents. Its scale is partly assembled rather than grown. ACE Controls Inc., HAHN Gasfedern GmbH, Fabreeka and Tech Products all transferred from the Swedish SKF Group on 30 June 2016, which is why supplier listings naming ACE Controls and Stabilus separately overstate the number of independent competitors. DESTACO followed from Dover Corporation on 1 April 2024 at an enterprise value of USD 680 million, moving the group toward industrial automation and away from its motion control base, and the combined Stabilus4Automation offer was presented from June 2025. SUSPA GmbH is the closest direct competitor on the passive product, supplying gas springs, dampers and motion control across the same automotive, furniture and industrial applications. Bansbach easylift GmbH competes on the industrial and furniture side, where catalogue breadth and delivery matter more than programme awards. Beijer Alma AB participates through Lesjöfors, whose works at Lesjöfors date to 1675 and whose spring manufacture began in 1852, and which extended its industrial range by acquiring International Industrial Springs. Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. KG comes at the market from the opposite direction. It is an automotive supplier with EUR 7.7 billion of company-wide revenue in 2024 across all its product lines and around 31,000 employees, and its door and liftgate systems business has produced a power liftgate with a springless spindle drive. Together Stabilus, SUSPA, Bansbach easylift, ACE Controls and Lesjöfors have been assessed at 52 percent of the market in 2025, with ACE counted inside the Stabilus group. Competition over the forecast period is likely to turn on the powered category rather than the passive one, because that is where Stabilus's share is lowest, where Brose's engineering position is strongest, and where the value per vehicle is highest.
Major Players
Leading companies in the market
Industry Developments
7 recorded developments
Stabilus began presenting a unified Stabilus4Automation portfolio from June 2025 at international trade exhibitions, combining the DESTACO automation range with its existing damping and motion control products. The step marked the point at which the 2024 acquisition became a single commercial offer rather than two catalogues.
Stabilus SE reported revenue of EUR 1,296.1 million for the fiscal year ended 30 September 2025, with adjusted operating profit of EUR 142.6 million against EUR 157.1 million a year earlier and the adjusted margin down from 12.0 percent to 11.0 percent. Automotive revenue fell 10 percent while Industrial Machinery and Automation rose 61 percent on the DESTACO acquisition.
Stabilus disclosed that its European, Middle Eastern and African revenue rose 3.2 percent to EUR 542.2 million in the fiscal year ended 30 September 2025, from EUR 525.5 million, while Asia-Pacific revenue fell 12.4 percent to EUR 273.0 million. The divergence is the clearest regional evidence published for this market by any participant.
Lesjöfors, the spring manufacturer owned by Beijer Alma AB and tracing its works to 1675 with spring production from 1852, acquired International Industrial Springs to extend its industrial range. The move continued a pattern in which lift support and spring capability is bought rather than built.
Stabilus confirmed its targets through 2030 at a Capital Markets Day, holding to a plan set before the automotive downturn that cut its automotive revenue 10 percent in the fiscal year. Confirming rather than revising the targets signalled that the leader regards the current weakness as cyclical.
Dover Corporation completed the sale of its DESTACO business unit to Stabilus SE on 1 April 2024 at an enterprise value of USD 680 million, after announcing the agreement in October 2023. DESTACO brought clamping, gripping and workholding automation rather than lift supports, extending the market leader away from its motion control base.
ACE Controls Inc., HAHN Gasfedern GmbH, Fabreeka and Tech Products transferred from the Swedish SKF Group to Stabilus on 30 June 2016. The transaction brought industrial damping, vibration isolation and a second gas spring brand under one owner, and it is why ACE and HAHN are not independent competitors despite appearing separately in supplier listings.
Table of Contents
13 comprehensive chapters
1.1 Market Definition
1.2 Scope of the Study
1.3 Research Objectives
2.1 Research Approach
2.2 Data Sources
2.3 Market Estimation Approach
2.4 Forecast Assumptions
2.5 Research Limitations
3.1 Market Overview
3.2 Market Size and Forecast
3.3 Key Findings
3.4 Market Structure
4.1 Market Drivers
4.2 Market Challenges
4.3 Market Opportunities
4.4 Market Trends and Insights
5.1 Market Segmentation Overview
5.2 By Product Type
5.3 By Application
5.4 By Material Type
6.1 North America
6.2 Europe
6.3 Asia Pacific
6.4 Latin America
6.5 Middle East & Africa
6.6 Regional Market Comparison
7.1 Industry Developments
7.2 Industry Timeline
8.1 Market Structure and Competitive Positioning
8.2 Major Players
8.3 Strategic Developments
8.4 Key Competitive Factors
9.1 Stabilus SE
9.2 SUSPA GmbH
9.3 Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. KG
9.4 Bansbach easylift GmbH
9.5 Beijer Alma AB
10.1 Market Size and Growth Outlook
10.2 Regional Market Outlook
10.3 Future Market Trends
10.4 Key Risks to the Forecast
11.1 Growth Opportunities
11.2 Key Risks and Constraints
11.3 Strategic Considerations
13.1 Glossary of Terms
13.2 Abbreviations
13.3 Research References
Scope of the Report
Report coverage and methodology
Study Period
Base Year: 2025
Forecast Period: 2025 - 2033
Geographic Scope
North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East & Africa
Companies Covered
Stabilus SE, SUSPA GmbH, Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. KG, Bansbach easylift GmbH + more
Data Sources
Primary research, industry interviews, regulatory filings, company reports
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about this report
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