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This annual World Machine Tool Output & Consumption Survey is compiled by, and first presented in, Metalworking Insiders' Report, the semimonthly newsletter for executives in the machine-tool and factory-equipment industry. The Gardner Publications newsletter accepts no advertising and provides objective reporting on business news that affects the builders and sellers of production equipment worldwide. For subscription rates and other information, visit Metalworking Insiders' Report. Countries listed below are ranked by 2002 production, that is, actual factory shipments and not orders. When discussing percentage changes year to year, those percentages are based in local currencies unless stated otherwise. Countries listed above as "nr" are not rated because reliable statistics are not available.
In terms of production, Germany displaces Japan as the world's top builder of machine tools for 2002, despite a 17% decline from the previous year (Japan's dip was even steeper). Germany led the world in 2001 in consumption of machines tools; now with a 20% drop it falls behind China.
Statistics are compiled by Germany's machine-tool builders' group, Verein Deutscher Werkzeugmaschinenfabriken (VDW, Frankfurt), which maintains www.vdw.de.
The trade association traditionally sponsors the biennial Metav, run in non-EMO years in Düsseldorf, June 15-19, 2004. This cycle includes a second Metav, in Munich, Apr. 27-30, 2004. The biennial pan-European EMO returns to Hanover, Germany, in 2005.
A privately organized show, AMB, runs in Stuttgart, Sept. 14-18, 2004 (http://www.messe-stuttgart.de/AMB/vorank/english/index.htm).
Combined statistics come from both the Japan Machine Tool Builders' Assn (metalcutting machine tools) (www.jmtba.or.jp) and the separate Japan Forming Machinery Assn. (presses and other metalforming machine tools) (http://www.j-fma.or.jp/).
The major machine-tool show is the JMTBA-organized biennial Japan International Machine Tool Fair (JIMToF) (www.jimtof.org) in Tokyo, sponsored by a variety of trade organizations. The next (22d) JIMToF runs Nov. 1-8, 2004.
Japan's machine-tool distributors' group lists information at www.nikkohan.or.jp/e/index.htm. Additionally, the Japan Machine Tool Importers' Assn. maintains www.jmtia.gr.jp.
According to Y. Tsubota of the importer's association, 2002 machine tool imports came from the U.S. 45%, Germany 16%, Switzerland 9%, the U.K. 3%, and Italy 3%.
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Italian consumption declined by 10% in 2002, and production declined 5%. Italy ranks in third place among builders and exporters.
Italy will host the next biennial pan-European show, EMO, which starts Oct. 21, 2003 in Milan (http://www.emo-milano.com/).
Milan's fairgrounds also hosts the national machine-tool show Bi-MU (biennial macchine utensili) Oct 1-6, 2004. Like other national shows for members of CECIMO, the Bi-MU runs in even years so as not to interfere with the EMO. Other major shows in Italy include Bi-MU Mediterranea held in southern Italy Feb. 26-29, 2004 and the Lamiera sheetmetal show, May 12-15, 2004.
Italy's builders' group, the union of constructors of machine tools or UCIMU- Sistemi Per Produrre, posts data at www.ucimu.it/eng/.
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Within the top ten consuming countries, China is the only one that has an increase in consumption (+20%) in 2002. With its imports soaring nearly one-quarter above 2001 levels, the country zooms ahead of all others as the leading importer. In terms of domestic production, China, which reports its production for this survey in U.S. dollars rather than renminbi, increases 15%, placing it in fourth place in the world, moving ahead of the United States.
The next biennial CIMT, China International Machine Tool Show (http://www.cimtshow.com/), run April 16-22, 2003, in Beijing. The China CNC Machine Tool Fair (http://www.ccmtshow.com/), also sponsored by the country's trade association, runs in even years in Shanghai.
CIMT's sponsor is the Beijing-based China Machine Tool builders' Association (www.cmtba.org.cn) includes subsidiary organizations for producers or different machine tools, tooling, abrasives, and accessories.
American machine-tool factories produced one-third less in 2002 than in the previous year.
Moreover, national consumption fell 36%, dropping America to fourth place among consumers in the world. (In 2001 the U.S. fell out of first position as leading consumer for the first time since 1993.) Production and output are not likely to turn around quickly, since orders, as tracked by the "U.S. Machine Tool Consumption" (USMTC) survey series, which continues downward.
Data in this World Machine Tool Output & Consumption Survey is based on actual shipments reported by factories and at ports. This is in contrast to the orders for future shipments booked by those AMT and AMTDA trade-association members who elect to participate in the monthly USMTC survey, whose index is issued jointly by those groups (http://www.amtda.org/usmtc/index.htm).
The builders' trade group, AMT - The Association for Manufacturing Technology in McLean, Virginia, posts info at www.mfgtech.org. For information about the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) it runs in Chicago, Illinois, every two years, (Sept. 8-15, 2004 is next), click http://www.imts.com/.
The distributors' trade group, the American Machine Tool Distributors' Assn. (AMTDA), located in Rockville, Maryland, is at www.amtda.org.
IMTS is THE major machine-tool-oriented trade show. Regionals include the APEX (Advanced Productivity Exposition) series like Westec and Eastec held in conjunction with the manufacturing engineering society (http://www.sme.org/), and four machine-tool shows (http://www.amtda.org/shows/index.htm) organized by the distributors' association.
Major trade shows include Taipei Automat, the Automation & Precision Machinery Show, and the trade-association-organized biennial TIMTOS, the Taipei International Machine Tool Show, March 18-23, 2003 (http://www.taipeitradeshows.com.tw/timtos/).
Taiwan's machine tool builders' association is part of the Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry, www.tami.org/.
In general, the Swiss economy did not escape the international slowdown in 2001-02. Employment growth stalled and the unemployment rate rose to 3.0% in October 2002, while inflation remained low.
For machine tools and manufacturing technology, the first three quarters of 2002 were disastrous. Orders fell over 40% in the first quarter and were still down 25% in the third.
Economic growth is expected to stay level or lose slightly in the first half of 2003 as foreign trade and capital expenditure remain weak. In the second half, however, foreign demand should gradually begin to pick up, according to machine-tool-industry executives.
Machine tool builders are organized into the VSM (Verein Schweizerischer Maschinen-Industrieller). The Swiss trade association that now encompasses the builders' group is called Swissmem, at www.swissmem.ch. The umbrella organization covers Swiss mechanical and electrical engineering (MEM) industries.
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It's been a difficult year for the Spanish machine-tool industry, due to international uncertainty and a drop in consumption in the main world markets. Order income has been smaller, but a backlog has allowed maintaining activity levels.
Nevertheless, production valued in euros dropped 7.6% from 2001 mainly due to the domestic market, since exports went up slightly, compensating for falls insome markets with improvement in others. Alberto Ortueta, who heads the Asociación Española de Fabricantes de Máquinas-herramienta (AFM), points out that 78% of the total production value is CNC machines.
Exports account for 58% of production, and main customers were Germany, France, Italy, Mexico, and the U.S.
AFM, the Spanish machine-tool builders' association (www.afm.es) is located in San Sebastian, in the heart of the machinery-producing region. Its biennial national machine-tool show, BIEHM, runs in nearby Bilbao traditionally in March and draws 50,000+ visitors. Since Spain is a CECIMO member, the BIEHM is not presented in odd-number years, which are reserved for CECIMO's pan-European EMO, this year in Milan. Another show, Maquitec, runs in Barcelona (www.maquitec.com) Oct. 19-23, 2004.
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The Seoul-based Korea Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association provides online information at (http://www.komma.org/english/english.htm). Figures in this survey are derived from the expansive Machine Tool Statistics Handbook published by KoMMA.
KoMMA is the main sponsor of the biennial fair SIMTOS, the Seoul International Machine Tool Show (http://www.simtos.org/), which next runs in the new exposition center in Busan April 7-12, 2004. The Tool Tech 2003 show runs Aug. 20-23, 2003 in Seoul (http://www.tooltechkorea.com/).
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The metalworking-machinery sector already had some worries at the end of 2001, with a 15% drop in orders. There was some revival of demand in June/July, but then orders fell again. By year-end, consumption was down 27% measured in euros, slightly less in dollars.
Sophie Vannieu of the trade association's statistics and marketing organization reports that 2003 does not look so bright, at least for the first half. "A lot of orders have been postponed by big clients in automotive and aeronautics industries, waiting for better times."
Statistical data comes from Paris-based Symap, the Syndicat de la Machine-Outil, du Soudage, de l'Assemblage et de la Productique Associée. The syndicate of manufacturers of production equipment hosts www.symap.com.
Symap hosts the pan-European machine-tool show, EMO every eight years, and the next rotation should have the exhibition in Paris in 2007.
Symap sponsors the biennial Machine Outil trade fair (http://www.machine-outil.info/) in Paris in non-EMO years, next in March 22-26, 2004. In addition, a private show called Transfometal (http://www.transfometal.com/) is scheduled for Lyon Oct. 12-16, 2004.
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Production by U.K. factories, which is reported in pounds rather than euros, fell 29% in 2002. That was slightly worse than the drop forecast by the trade association's chief economist Geoff Noon.
Broadly the outlook for 2003 is for little change compared to the 2002 figures. The MTA sees no real prospects of a recovery in investment in the U.K., the rest of Europe, or the U.S. until the latter part of the year. Says economist Noon, "We do anticipate a recovery in 2004, but there is much water to pass under the proverbial bridge before then."
The major national machine-tool show, Mach 2004, is part of a combined exposition at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, Apr. 26-30, 2004 (http://www.mach2002.com/).
Both builders and distributors are members of the London-based Manufacturing Technologies Association, http://www.mta.org.uk/.
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The Canadian Machine Tool Distributors' Assn. (http://www.cmtda.org/cmtda.html) and the Canadian Tooling & Machining Assn. (www.ctma.com) both sponsor a double show run by Reed Exhibition Companies: The October 20-23, 2003 event in Toronto's National Trade Centre combines the Canadian Machine Tool Show and the National Factory Automation Show.
Last year the National Factory Automation Show combined with the Montreal Fabricating & Machine Tool Show, next in May 17-19, 2004 (http://www.reedexpo.ca/montreal).
Canadian production in recent years is roughly estimated from historical trends tied to trade, which statistics are more current.
Statistical information about the country's industry is available online through Statistics Canada at www.statcan.ca.
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Brazilian production grew 2% in 2002, and forecasts call for an increase of 7% during 2003. Exports ought to grow at 3%, while imports are expected to remain even.
The São Paulo-based builders group is the Associação Brazileira da Indústria de Máquinas e Equipamentos. Contact the trade association through its Web site at www.abimaq.org.br/. In the tables in this study, Brazilian production is footnoted with a "c" for "circa" because as of 2001 ABIMAQ reports only the results of responding member companies. Figures here are projected for the entire sector.
The major machine-tool show is FEIMAFE, the Feira Internacional de Máquinas-ferramenta e Sistemas Integrados de Manufactura (http://www.feimafe.com.br/). It will run in São Paulo May 12-17, 2003.
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The Association of Manufacturers & Suppliers of Engineering Technique is at www.sst.cz/. The SST, Svaz Výrobcu A Dodavatelu Strojírenské Techniky, is located in Prague and is a member of CECIMO.
MSV 2003, the 45th International Engineering Exhibition (http://www.sport-life.cz/msv-gb) runs Sept. 15-19, 2003 in Brno.
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The Techni-Show starts April 9, 2002 in Utrecht (www.jaarbeursutrecht.nl).
Machine-tool builders in The Netherlands are represented by the GGW Groep Gereedschapswerktuigen, one of the 150 affiliated sector organizations in the 2600-member-company engineering-industry association in Zoetermeer known as FME-CWM (www.fme.nl).
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Austria saw a 10% decrease in production in 2002 with a similar increase in export activity, according to Wolfgang Ratz of the FMS group.
Primary contact for the machine-tool industry is through the larger machinery and steel-construction industries trade group known as FMS, or Fachvergand der Maschinen- und Stahlbauindustrie in Vienna. The trade association maintains a Web site at www.fms.at/1ste.html.
A privately staged show run by Reed Exhibitions called Intertool (http://www.intertool.at/) runs May 12-15, 2004 in Vienna.
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A major trade show is the Finn Tec, May 11-14, 2004 in Helsinki (www.finnexpo.fi).
Machine-tool builders are part of the Federation of Finnish Metal, Engineering & Electrotechnical Industries (www.met.fi).
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Trade shows include Tekniska Mässan, which runs Oct. 7-11, 2003 in Stockholm (http://tekniska.stofair.se/).
Production grew 2% in 2002 while apparent consumption declined 22%.
The Swedish Machine Tool & Cutting Tool Manufacturers Association known as FVM (Foreningen Svenska Verktygs - Och Vertygsmaskintillverkare) hosts a Web site at www.vibab.se/fvm. Secretariat for the association is the Assn. of Swedish Engineering Industries (V.I.).
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The Turkish machinery companies' trade association Makina Imalatçilari Birligi, is the newest member of the CECIMO consortium, joining in November 1999 as its 15th member.
Its biennial fair, IMAK-TATEF, the International Machine Tool & Metalworking Exhibition, is held in Istanbul (http://www.itf-exhibitions.com/). It combines two formerly independent shows that were merged in 2000.
The group's Web page is at www.mib.org.tr.
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Sycomom, the Syndicat des Constructeurs Belges de Machines-Outils pour le travail des Métaux, is the Brussels-based machine-tool organization that belongs to CECIMO. It in turn is supported by the Mechanical Engineering sector of Agoria, the federation of trade groups in a number of industries. For further organizational information, click www.fabrimetal.be/.
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A biennial exhibition, Mashinostroyenie or "MashEx," will be held at the Sokolniki Exhibition Center in Moscow Sept. 16-20, 2003 (www.mashinostroyenie.ru). Another show, Metalloobrabotka (www.expocentr.ru), concentrates on foreign machines and runs in Moscow May 24-19, 2004.
Russian production and trade is reported in U.S. dollars. Statistics are reported by Moscow-based Stankoimport, a state Unitarian enterprise that represents more than 200 machine-tool and instrument factories, research organizations, and design bureaus. It maintains a Web site at www.stankoimport.com.
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Production gained 14% and consumption gained 20% in 2002.
India's machine-tool industry is composed of nearly 450 manufacturers, but ten produce around 70% of output. The Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association hosts a Web site at www.imtma.org.
The main metalworking show is the triennial IMTEX, dubbed the Indian Machine Tool Exhibition with International Participation (http://www.imtex.org/), next scheduled for Jan. 28 - Feb. 3, 2004.
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The Australian Manufacturing Technology Institute Ltd., in Melbourne, Victoria, was established in 1999 and combines the Institute of Machine Tools Australasia (est. 1961) and the Australian Machine Tool Association in Sydney (est. 1954). Estimates of production and trade are sourced from AMTIL with special input from grinder manufacturer Anca Pty. Ltd., probably the largest machine-tool builder. Australia gets about one-quarter of its imports from Japan, and the United States and Taiwan each sell Australia about 15% of its total imports. The major export market is the United States by far (40% of total exports go to America), followed by the U.K. and New Zealand. Get more information about the trade association at www.amtil.com.au/.
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A prominent trade show is called Metal, the biennial international trade fair for machine tools and tooling, and runs April 9-13, 2002 in Fredericia (www.fagmesser.dk).
The Association of Danish Machine Tool Manufacturers is called FDVV, Foreninen af Danske Vaerktoejs- og Værktøjsmaskinfabrikanter (e-mail: df@fagmesser.dk) and is a member of CECIMO (www.cecimo.be/general/memberassoc.htm).
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Bucharest-headquartered trade association UPROMUS (Uniunea Producatorilor Români de Masini Unelte si Scule) (fax 401-255 6481) represents machine-tool builders. The group created a standardization and quality-certification agency called S.C. Simtex S.A. (http://www.simtex.ro/cuprins.php).
According to Mircea Pupaza, managing director of UPROMUS, 2002 exports are larger than production, as was the case in 2001 as well, because of sales from stock. Imports are down one-third. Statistics are reported in U.S. dollars at the rate of 33.1 lei to the dollar for 2002.
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EMAF, the International Machine Tool & Accessories Exhibition, runs in Porto in November of non-EMO years (www.exponor.pt).
The machine-tool industry association, CIMAF (Centro de Cooperaçáo dos Industriais de Máquinas e Ferramentas) in Oporto is part of AIMMAP, the metal and mechanical engineering industry group (http://www.aimmap.pt/).
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ALSTRO, the Croatian Association of Manufacturing Technology, is located in Zagreb and may be contacted on the Web at http://www.hgk.hr/komora/Alstro/eng/about.htm.
Argentine production, reported in U.S. dollars, fell an estimated 29% in 2002. Consumption was off further. The figures reflect the overshooting on the exchange rate of the national currency because of the economic crash at the end of 2001. Economists in Buenos Aires believe that the crisis reached a floor at the end of 2002 and that export orders have begun to increase, with a rise in domestic production to follow.
The Asociación Argentina de Fabricantes de Máquinas-Herramienta, Accesorios y Afines maintains a Web site at www.aafmha.org.ar/.
The trade group is the primary sponsor of the country's international machine-tool show called EMAQH (Exposión de la Máquina Herramienta) (http://www.emaqh.com/), which runs in Buenos Aires.
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Consumption increased nearly 20% in 2002 as domestic production gained, too, from a relatively small base.
South Africa's Machine Tool Merchants' Association in Randburg runs a machine show every four years in Johannesburg and posts information at http://mtma.africa.co.za. (It is distinct from the country's Machine & Tool Manufacturers Assn. in Johannesburg.)
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CECIMO is the European Committee for Co-operation of the Machine Tool Industries and is based in Brussels, Belgium. During 2002 its 15 member trade associations were responsible for 52% the world's output. Its statistical department, headed by Eric Noêl, has been instrumental in coordinating survey results from Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and United Kingdom.
The consortium of Western European machine-tool associations provides a site at www.cecimo.be and a subsidiary location for info about its biennial pan-European world show called EMO (Exposition Machine-Outil), which next runs in Italy (http://www.emo-milano.com/), Oct. 21-28, 2003.
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Hungary's machine-tool industry suffered years of decline following the change to free market economy and the collapse of other socialist markets in the early 1990s. Sector employment, formerly around 8,000, was cut to less than 2,000 during this period. Today many machine-tool builders are owned by foreign entities, like Singapore's Excel Machine Tools, which purchased the once fabled Csepel Machine Tool Works in 1995.
Statistics are unavailable or unreliable, and thus the country is not rated in this survey. British trade sources note than imports of traditional machines are low due to a surplus of second-hand equipment. Imports (80% from the EU), account for an estimated 70% of purchases in the local market.
The MachTech international machine manufacturing technologies trade fair (April 23-26, 2003) runs biennially (http://www.mach-tech.hu/) at the Budapest Fair Centre.
The National Association of Hungarian Engineering Industries (MAGOSZ, in Budapest, http://www.magosz.hu/) was founded in 1990 and promotes relations between companies.
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ASIMPI (Asosiasi Industri Mesin Perkakas Indonesia), the Jakarta-based machine tool industries association, is working on developing comparable statistics, but the country is not yet rated in this survey.
A U.K.-based exhibition services firm has scheduled a show, Machine Tool Indonesia (http://www.pamerindo.com/manufacturing_2003_exhibition.htm), as part of its Manufacturing Indonesia series for Jakarta Dec. 10-13, 2003 and another Dec. 8-14, 2004. (www.montnet.com).
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Mexico imports more than 90% of its consumption of machine tools, and local production is estimated from fragmentary data. When the statistics are out-of-date the country is necessarily dropped from the survey's rankings.
The AMDM, Asociación Mexicana de Distribuidores Maquinaria (Mexico City) maintains a web site at www.amdm.org.mx.
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Machine-tool production for Poland was last estimated at around $190-million in 1997. Trade data is somewhat more current, with 2000 imports estimated at $191-million and exports at $56-million. Most exports go through Metalexport Group, now privatized, and its subsidiary Toolmex.
The major machine-tool show venue is the Poznan Industrial Technologies Fair, June 9-12, 2003
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The Slovakian Association of Machine Tools & Tooling Builders is run by a unit of the mechanical-engineering department of a Bratislava university; it hosts a Web site at www.kvs.sjf.stuba.sk/. The predominant builder is export-oriented Trens A.S. (Trencín, Slovakia), formerly TOS Trencín when under state control.
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Most recent statistics, for 1998, show production of around $50-million, or less than one-third of the level when war broke out in 1992. The industry's three-dozen firms tend to specialize in metalcutting machines.
The machine-tool association Masino-Savez is headquartered in Novi Beograd, a suburb of the Serbian capital of Belgrade. Web site: www.masino-savez.org.yu. Fax: 381-11-671-675.
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