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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 it 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 below are listed in rank order. In each Country Report, production means actual shipments, not orders for future shipment. 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.
Many listings below include information on significant trade fairs that feature machine tools. The German machine-tool-builders’ organization known as VDW also does a good job in compiling a list of such shows.
For a convenient source of data on most of the countries included in this World Machine Tool Output & Consumption Survey, we highly recommend Section F international statistics in The Economic Handbook of The Machine Tool Industry. The book, approximately 300 pages, may be purchased from the American machine-tool trade group AMT – The Association for Manufacturing Technology (McLean, Virginia, USA). The book costs $295, plus $5 for shipping. More information at http://www.amtonline.org/ .
Japan regains number one position in production of metalcutting and metalforming machine tools in 2003, edging out Germany, with which it has run neck-and-neck since the early 1990s. Like other Asian countries, Japan had a double-digit percentage growth in output last year, hitting 20% (in yen; 29% when converted to dollars).
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/ ). For metalcutting machine tools, JMTBA estimates production totals starting with statistics from the Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry, which does not include companies employing less than 50 workers, and adjusts them according to its own surveys. For trade data, JMTBA excludes semiconductor-fabrication equipment, which is included in data from the Ministry of Finance.
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 .
Germany saw declines of 10% in production and 17% in consumption in 2003, with the caveat that some data are still provisional because of some methodology changes in the German statistics office.
Statistics are compiled of assembled by Germany's machine-tool builders' group, Verein Deutscher Werkzeugmaschinenfabriken (VDW, Frankfurt), which maintains www.vdw.de . According to VDW chief economist Gerhard Hein, the organization has a quite optimistic view on 2004, looking toward a revival of spending in the United States, continued good markets in China and the rest of Asia, and gains in Eastern Europe. VDW sees the downward trend in production halting during the import-driven first half of the year, with a second-half increase encompassing a domestic sales spurt that would put 2004 output at 4% higher than last year. Examination of the business cycles in major market segments are pointing to a continued pattern of growth in the 2005-2007 time frame.
The trade association traditionally sponsors the biennial Metav, run in non-EMO years in Düsseldorf, this time scheduled for June 15-19, 2004. The VDW calendar was recently expanded to include a second Metav, in Munich, Apr. 27-30, 2004.
The giant pan-European EMO returns to Hanover, Sept. 14-21, 2005 ( www.emo-hannover.de/ ). The new schedule for the biennial EMO has it running twice consecutively in Hanover and once every six years in Milan. In other words, Germany hosts in 2007, 2011, and 2015 while Italy presents the show in 2009 and 2015.
A privately organized show, AMB, runs in Stuttgart, Sept. 14-18, 2004 ( http://www.messe-stuttgart.de/AMB/vorank/english/index.htm ). A more-specialized sheetmetal-working show, EuroBLECH , runs in Hanover starting Oct. 26, 2004.
Italian consumption again declined in 2003, by 14% when measured in euros, although when converted into U.S. dollars that drop actually turned into a small percentage gain. Italy remains fifth among the world’s consumers. Italian producers suffered less than did foreign ones, and import penetration declined more than four percentage points.
Production declined, too, by 8% in euros. Italy continues to rank third among producers and among exporters. For 2004, the slide in output is forecast to level off as exports recover 3%. This year’s trade-association president, Andrea Riello, expects that “the hesitant signs of recovery, in particular the U.S. and Japan, could crystallize during the second part of 2004, driving a recovery in some of Italy’s traditional markets.” Economists in the organization anticipate that consumption should decrease and imports continue to slide.
Italy hosted the most recent biennial pan-European show, EMO, Oct. 2003 at the old Milan fairgrounds ( http://www.emo-milano.com/ ). Under the new schedule adopted by sponsoring CECIMO, the next two EMOs (2005 and 2007) will be held in Germany. When the huge event returns to Milan in 2009, it will be staged in a new trade-fair site, to be built about halfway between downtown Milan and the international airport at Malpensa.
Milan's fairgrounds also hosts the national machine-tool show Bi-MU (biennial macchine utensili) Oct 6 2004. It runs in conjunction with a subcontractors’ show called Sfortec ( http://www.bimu-sfortec.com/ita/index.cfm)/ 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 in early 2004 and the Lamiera sheetmetal show, May 12-15, 2004.
The builders' group, the union of constructors of Italian machine tools or UCIMU- Sistemi Per Produrre, posts data at www.ucimu.it/eng/ .
Chinese consumption of new manufacturing equipment continues to amaze: In 2003 she purchased and installed over $6.5-billion in machine tools, again easily outpacing second-ranked Germany, this time by $2.2-billion. With the world’s biggest appetite, its imports again soared to $4-billion, way ahead of the United States at $2.6-billion.
In terms of domestic production, China, which reports its production for this survey in U.S. dollars rather than yuan, increased 24%, again placing it in fourth place in the world, ahead of the United States and behind only Japan, Germany, and Italy. For the two years covered in the present survey, production figures are down from previous estimates. That is because the reporting builders’ association now has been able to refine its survey practices to better isolate the non-machine-tool output of its machine-tool builders.
The next biennial CIMT, China International Machine Tool Show ( http://www.cimtshow.com/ ), will run April 11-17, 2005, in Beijing. The CIMT has joined the European EMO, the American IMTS, and the Japanese JIMToF as the four major machine-tool trade shows in the world.
The China CNC Machine Tool Fair ( http://www.ccmtshow.com/ ), also sponsored by the country’s trade association, runs in even years (April 2004) 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 in 2003 at least slowed their rate of production decline to 4%, and with the U.S. economy overall showing a faster growth rate than at any time in the past 20 years, there are high hopes for a sustained recovery.
National consumption grew by 1%, and America continues in 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.) Consumption increases won’t come fast, however, since orders, as tracked by the “U.S. Machine Tool Consumption” (USMTC) survey series, continue to grow slowly.
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.amtonline.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.
Like that of other Asian countries in 2003, Taiwanese output of machine tools surged, by 16% when measured either in Taiwanese dollars or in U.S. dollars. Consumption grew at 11%.
Major trade shows include Taipei Automat, the Automation & Precision Machinery Show, and the trade- association-organized biennial TIMTOS, the Taipei International Machine Tool Show, which will run again in 2005 ( http://www.taipeitradeshows.com.tw/timtos/ ).
Taiwan's machine tool builders' association is part of the Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry, www.tami.org/ .
Republic of Korea
First estimates show South Korean machine-tool production breaks all-time records by exceeding $2-billion in 2003. The figure represents a 24% increase (in won, and an even higher 30% when translated into U.S. dollars). A surge in imports led domestic consumption to rise by an even higher percentage.
The Seoul-based Korea Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association provides online information at
( www.komma.org/english/english.htm ). Statistics for this report are based in the National Statistical Office (production) and the Korea Customs Service (exports and imports).KoMMA is the main sponsor of the biennial fair SIMTOS, the Seoul International Machine Tool Show ( http://www.simtos.org/ ), which runs in the new exposition center in Busan April 7-12, 2004.
In the measure of machine-tool consumption per capita, Switzerland has long led the rest of the world, and last year it again was number one, spending , on average, $74 for each person in the country. (For perspective, the U.S. ranks 17th on that per-capita listing with $14 per person, and hugely populous China, the world’s largest consuming country, was 23d out of 30 with a per-capita expenditure of only $5.)
Swiss machine-tool production slipped 18% in 2003 (less when converted from Swiss francs to dollars). It holds as the world’s eighth-largest producer.
Forecasters at the Swiss machinery trade association are generally upbeat for 2004. But, they say, it is still too early to predict a broad-based and far-reaching upswing. A further fall in the US dollar could jeopardize the recovery. After all, the industries generate 25% of their exports in the dollar zone, and their deliveries to European customers depend on the ability of the latter to export to the dollar zone.
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.
Spain
The year just ended has been another difficult one for the Spanish machine-tool industry, due to international uncertainty and its consequences in investment, mainly in European and American markets. Orders from the rest of Europe and from the U.S. decreased again, partially compensated by increases from Asia. Spain’s domestic market fluctuated. Thus production, valued in euros, was 9% lower in 2003, and exports decreased 8%.
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 and 60% of production is exported, with main destinations being Germany, France, and Italy.
AFM, the Spanish machine-tool builders’ association ( www.afm.es ) is located in San Sebastian, in the heart of the northeast-Spain machinery-producing region. Also in San Sebastian is AMT, the export trade association of Spanish manufacturers of machine-tool accessories, component parts, and tools, at http://www.amt.es/ .
AFM’s biennial national machine-tool show, BIEHM (Bienal Española de la Máquina-Herramienta), runs in nearby Bilbao June 7-12, 2004 and usually 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 , in 2005 in Hanover, Germany. Another show, Maquitec, runs in Barcelona ( www.maquitec.com ) Oct. 19-23, 2004.
The French market for machine tools is led by big customers in the aerospace and automotive industries and thus is often subject to large swings due to the timing of major programs.
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, a CECIMO member, hosts www.symap.com .
Symap had hosted the pan-European machine-tool show, EMO, every eight years, but a change in the schedule announced at the 2003 event drops Paris to concentrate on Hanover and Milan for future EMOs.
Symap sponsors the biennial Machine Outil trade fair in Paris in non-EMO years, next in March 22-26, 2004. This time it is part of a larger umbrella show called Industrie 2004, which includes other specialized exhibits for tooling, assembly, etc. Details at www.industrie-expo.com/en/industrie2004/machineoutil.html . In addition, a private show called Transfometal ( http://www.transfometal.com/ ) had been scheduled for Lyon in the south of France for Oct. 2004; recently it has been rolled into a broader show in Lyon called Industrie Sud, to run March 7-10, 2005.
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Canada
The Canadian Machine Tool Distributors’ Assn. ( www.cmtda.com ) and the Canadian Tooling & Machining Assn. ( www.ctma.com ) both sponsor a double show run by Reed Exhibition Companies: the National Factory Automation Show combined with the Montreal Fabricating & Machine Tool Show, next in May 17-19, 2004 ( http://www.reedexpo.ca/montreal ).
Output declined 30% in 2003 from revised 2002 estimates, and exports fell by a similar percentage. Imports, however, gained.
Canadian production is estimated by the Ottawa ministry, Industry Canada, as the value added by principal establishments in the NAICS 333519 sector. The 60/40 split between metalcutting and metalforming machinery output is based on historical trends. Statistical information about the country's industry is available online through Statistics Canada at www.statcan.ca .
Production by U.K. factories, which is reported in pounds rather than euros, fell by 6% in 2003, considerably less steep than in the year prior. The trade association’s chief economist, Geoff Noon, says his organization’s outlook for 2004 is for some recovery.
MTA forecasts a 16% gain in 2004, “which sounds like a lot,” says economist Noon, but invalue terms this only takes us back to the 2002 level, and no one here would describe that as a good market!” A key element of the forecast is the recent improvement in financial indicators, with data on manufacturing profitability and U.K. corporate financial balances better than they have been for some time. The worry is that this cash will have to be put into propping up pension funds rather than into investment, but officials hope the improving stock market will free up cash for spending on new machinery.
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.mach2004.com/mach ).Both builders and distributors are members of the London-based Manufacturing Technologies Association, http://www.mta.org.uk/ .
Austria
Austria saw a 7% increase in production in 2003. That, teamed with a gain in imports and a slight drop in exports, accounted for a 60% increase in consumption, measured in euros, for this CECIMO member.
Primary contact for the machine-tool industry is through the larger machinery and steel-construction industries trade group known as FMS, or Fachverband der Maschinen- und Stahlbauindustrie in Vienna. The trade association maintains a Web site at www.fmmi.at/ .
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Like several other Western-European countries, The Netherlands saw a decline of around 10% both in machine-tool production and in consumption in 2003.
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 ). It is affiliated with the CECIMO consortium ( www.cecimo.com/ )
Brazilian production lived up to forecasts and grew 7% in 2003, following a smaller percentage growth the previous year. Imports were stable, and exports grew slightly.
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/ . As of 2001 ABIMAQ reports only the results of responding member companies, or about 35% of the total number of enterprises. However, they represent the most significant part of the industry, and 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/ ). The biennial fair runs in São Paulo, next in 2005.
Finland
A major trade show is the Finn Tec, May 11-14, 2004 in Helsinki ( www.finnexpo.fi ).
A machine-tool builders’ group was started in 1986 and is part of the Federation of Finnish Metal, Engineering & Electrotechnical Industries ( www.met.fi ); it also is a member of the CECIMO consortiumof Western European machine tool manufacturers’ organizations. National output is heavily weighted toward metalforming machines.
Trade shows include Tekniska Mässan, which runs Oct. 19-23, 2004 in Stockholm ( http://webfair2.stofair.se http://webfair2.stofair.se/tekniskamassan_eng/ ).
Production grew by 3% in 2003 while apparent consumption again declined, by 10%, a less-steep drop than in 2002.
The Swedish Machine Tool & Cutting Tool Manufacturers Association is a member of the CECIMO consortium and is known as FVM (Foreningen Svenska Verktygs - Och Vertygsmaskintillverkare). It hosts a Web site at www.fvm.se/ . Secretariat for the association is the Assn. of Swedish Engineering Industries (V.I.).
Czech Republic
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. The association’s general manager, Zdenek Holý, reports that although production fell in 2003, a projected 15% increase in 2004 should bring it back to 2002 levels.
IMT 2004, the International Machine Tools Exhibition, www.bvv.cz/imt-gb , runs Sept. 20-24, 2004 in Brno.
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 March 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 .
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.
Production in 2003 was even with that of 2002. Breakdown between cutting and forming production is based on historical data. True to its Benelux traditions, entrepôt Belgium is a very active trader in machinery, so the ratio (see Export table) of exports as a percentage of local production is more than 200% because figures include re-exported machines.
For further organizational information, click www.fabrimetal.be/ .
Production gained 35% (measured in rupees, even higher in U.S. dollars) in 2003, following a 14% rise the year before. Consumption shot up 43% in 2003, moving India up several notches in rankings; it had 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 in Bombay, dubbed the Indian Machine Tool Exhibition with International Participation
( http://www.imtex.org/ ), last held Jan. – Feb., 2004.
Russia
A biennial exhibition, Mashinostroyenie or “MashEx,” was last held at the Sokolniki Exhibition Center in Moscow Sept. 2003
( www.mashinostroyenie.ru ). Another show, Metalloobrabotka ( www.expocentr.ru ), concentrates on foreign machines and runs in Moscow May 24-19, 2004. A tooling exposition, ISET (Tool World), runs Mar. 21-25, 2004 in Moscow ( www.tool-world.ru /).Russian production and trade is reported in U.S. dollars. Statistics are reported by Moscow-based Stankoinstrument Association of Machine & Tool Manufacturers (e-mail siass@tsr.ru),which represents more than 200 machine-tool and instrument factories, research organizations, and design bureaus.
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.
Total consumption of machine tools in Australia has shown small growth over the past three years, according to Shane Infanti of AMTIL, and the forecast is for continued growth in 2004, returning to the levels of 1999. Behind this trend: Low inflation rates and interest rates, a stable government, and a realization by manufacturers that they need to invest to be globally competitive.
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.
AMTIL is a sponsor of Austech, an annual technology show in Sydney, in early June. Get more information about the trade association at www.amtil.com.au/ .
A prominent trade show is called Metal, the biennial international trade fair for machine tools and tooling, and the 13th in the series runs April 20-24, 2004 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 ). For the current survey, 2003 statistics are unrevised from rough estimates for 2002, and they are converted from euros to dollars at the exchange rate for 2003 to reflect currency changes.
Bucharest-headquartered trade association UPROMUS (Uniunea Producatorilor Români de Masini Unelte si Scule) (fax 421-255 6481. e-mail simitex@rnc.ro) represents machine-tool builders. The group created a standardization and quality-certification agency called S.C. Simtex S.A. ( www.simtex.ro/ ).
According to Mircea Pupaza, managing director of UPROMUS, 2003 exports are larger than production, as was the case for the previous two years as well, because of sales from stock. Imports are down one-third. Statistics are reported in U.S. dollars at the rate of 33.05 lei to the dollar for 2002.
EMAF ( Exposição Internacional de Máquinas - Ferramentas) , the International Machine Tool & Accessories Exhibition, runs in Porto in November of non-EMO years ( www.emaf.exponor.pt/ ) . next in Nov. 10-14, 2004.
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/ ). It is a member of CEIMO in Brussels
BIAM, the 17th biennial international machine-tool fair, runs in Zagreb 20-24 April 2004. Info at http://www.zv.hr/sajmovi/220/index_en.html .
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, continued its slide and fell nearly 50% in 2003. Consumption was almost 40%. A hoped-for rise in exports, and consequent production gain, failed to materialize.
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, next Oct. 14-19, 2004. Another show, FIMAQH , runs July 6-11, 2004.
Hungary
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.
Statistics from the engineering trade association show a 2003 production decline of 10%, measured in forints, and a noticeable drop in exports.
The MachTech international machine manufacturing technologies trade fair (March – April 2005) runs biennially ( http://www.mach-tech.hu/ ) at the Budapest Fair Centre.
The National Association of Hungarian Engineering Industries (MAGOSZ, or Magyar Gépgyártók Országos Szövetsége, in Budapest, http://www.magosz.hu/ ) was founded in 1990 and promotes relations between companies.
Consumption increased 14% in 2003 (and much higher when rand are converted to dollars) 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 Association. in Johannesburg.)
CECIMO
CECIMO is the European Committee for Co-operation of the Machine Tool Industries and is based in Brussels, Belgium. During 2003 its 15 member trade associations were responsible for 49% the world's output, down slightly from the year before. Its statistical department, headed by Eric No ê l, 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 pan-European world show called EMO (Exposition Machine-Outil) that is run in odd-numbered years by the host country. A schedule change announced at the 2003 EMO in Milan removes Paris from the rotation. The giant pan-European EMO returns to Hanover, Sept. 14-21, 2005 ( www.emo-hannover.de/ ). The new schedule for the biennial EMO has it running twice consecutively in Hanover and once every six years in Milan. In other words, Germany hosts in 2005, 2007, 2011, and 2015 while Italy presents the show in 2009 and 2015.
Reliable statistics on domestic production are unavailable. Hence the country only appears on the export and import tables. Data on trade comes from StatLink, Singapore Trade Statistics. Currency is converted at 1.7906 Singapore dollars = 1 U.S. $. for 2002.
Britain’s All World Exhibitions plans one of its MTA – MetalAsia series of shows for Singapore, May 2005.
Statistics on Thai production of machine tools have not been completely available. However, trade data is available. In 2002 imports totaled more than $550-million (three-quarters are metalcutting machines, mostly lathes), a 6% increase over 2002 and placing the rapidly industrializing nation among the top ten of the world’s importers. Exports, mostly electrical discharge machines, came to a relatively small $64.2-million in 2002.
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 Machine Tool Indonesia as part of its Manufacturing Indonesia series for Jakarta Dec. 8-14, 2004. ( www.montnet.com ).
Mexico imports more than 90% of its consumption of machine tools, and local production had been estimated from fragmentary data. When the statistics are out-of-date the country is necessarily dropped from the survey’s rankings. Other sources indicate Mexican imports of machine tools at $830-million in 2002, which would place the country in the top ten of importers. Exports that year were placed at less than $30-million.
The AMDM, Asociación Mexicana de Distribuidores Maquinaria (Mexico City) maintains a web site at www.amdm.org.mx .
Machine-tool production for Poland was last estimated at around $190-million in 1997. Trade data is somewhat more current, with 2002 imports estimated at $315-million and exports at $75-million. Most exports go through Metalexport Group, now privatized, and its subsidiary Toolmex.
The major machine-tool show venue is the annual Poznan Industrial Technologies Fair , June 14-17, 2004.
Most recent statistics, for 2000, show Yugoslav 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.
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/ . It also runs a tooling conference in April 2004.
