|
1. Japan |
14. Netherlands |
27. Portugal |
This annual World Machine Tool Output & Consumption Survey is compiled by, and first presented in, Metalworking Insiders' Report, the 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 alphabetically. 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, as in the case of some countries that report in U.S. dollars. Countries listed above as “nr” are not ranked because statistics are not available and/or not deemed reliable for 2006, although some have been included in previous Surveys .
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, now published exclusively in CD-ROM format, may be purchased from the American machine-tool trade group AMT – The Association for Manufacturing Technology (McLean, Virginia, USA). The disk costs $295, plus $5 for shipping. More information at the Industry Trends and Statistics portion of AMT’s Web site, http://www.amtonline.org/.
Argentine production, reported in U.S. dollars, continues to grow in output following a slump in 2003. For 2006 estimated production is $28.6-million, up 20% from the previous year. The country is a heavy importer, and consumption ($142.1-million, down 9%) is five times domestic production.
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 one of the country's international machine-tool shows called EMAQH (Exposión de la Máquina Herramienta) (http://www.emaqh.com/), which runs in Buenos Aires, July 13-18, 2007. Another show, FIMAQH, last run in June 2006, has been directly competitive in the same city.
According to Shane Infanti of the trade association AMTIL, the stability of the metalworking industry down under is shown by the small fluctuations in machine-tool figures. Consumption increased 1% in 2006 while domestic production declined by 2%.
Slight decreases are forecast in metalcutting and slight increased for metalforming. This is a reflection on the key driver industry forecasts, with automotive and agriculture having less growth than aerospace, mining, defense, and medical.
Historically, 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.
The Australian Manufacturing Technology Institute Ltd., in Wantirna (suburb of 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 (in U.S. dollars) are sourced from AMTIL.
AMTIL is a sponsor of Austech, an annual (generally mid-May) technology show that alternates between Sydney and Melbourne, this year in Melbourne. Get more information about the trade association at www.amtil.com.au/.
Austria
Consumption grew by 1% in 2006, and local production grew by 2%.
Trade in machine tools is important for this CECIMO member. As one of those economies characterized as “entrepôt,” Austria’s exports often exceed 100% of production, and imports can be more than 100% of consumption (112% and 114%, respectively, in 2006).
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/.
A privately staged biennial show run by Reed Exhibitions called Intertool (http://www.intertool.at/) last ran Oct. 2006 in Vienna.
Belgium
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.
Consumption in Belgium grew 11% (in euros) in 2006 while production—dominated by metalforming machines—grew 16%.
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 often around 300%, because figures include re-exported machines.
For further organizational information, click www.agoria.be/.
Brazil
Brazilian production, reported in U.S. dollars, grew 10% in 2006. Exports declined, and imports stayed 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/. 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, May 21-26 2007. Another trade fair, Mecânica (http://www.mecanica.com.br/index.php), for general machinery including machine tools, runs in alternating years, also in São Paulo.
Canada
Estimated output for 2006 is up 13% (in Canadian dollars), putting the country at number 11 among world producers. Consumption is estimated up 4%, and Canada places 9th among consuming countries.
Historically, the top suppliers of machine tools to Canada are the U.S., Japan, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. The top destination for Canadian machine-tool exports is the United States, which accounts for around 80% of exports.
Canadian production is estimated by the Ottawa ministry, Industry Canada (www.ic.gc.ca), 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. Trade data is current.
The Canadian Machine Tool Distributors’ Assn. (www.cmtda.com) and the Canadian Tooling & Machining Assn. (www.ctma.com) both have been sponsors of a double show run by Reed Exhibition Companies (purchased Dec. 2006 by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Dearborn, Mich., USA): the National Factory Automation Show combined with the Montreal Fabricating & Machine Tool Show, next in May 15-17, 2006 (http://www.reedexpo.ca/montreal). The two trade associations also sponsor the Toronto-based CMTS (Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show, Oct. 2007), the largest forum for machine tools in the country; it, too, is now produced by SME.
Chinese consumption of new manufacturing equipment continues to amaze: In 2004 she purchased and installed $9.3-billion in machine tools. That grew to $10.8-billion in 2005 consumption, and in 2006 gained another 20% to nearly $13-billion.
Chinese consumption, as a percentage of total estimated world production of $59.5-billion, amounts to 22%. So, again, more than one out of every five machines produced in the world ends up in China.
In terms of domestic production, China, which reports its production for this survey in U.S. dollars rather than yuan, increased 37%, moving up to third place in the world, ahead of the Italy and behind only Japan and Germany.
The 11th biennial CIMT, China International Machine Tool Show (http://www.cimtshow.com/), runs April 6-11, 2009, 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 (next: Apr. 21-25 2008) 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.
Croatia
Croatia increased its consumption of machine tools 10% in 2006, and domestic production grew by a similar amount.
BIAM, the 18th biennial international machine-tool fair, ran in Zagreb 25-29 April 2006 and next will be held in 2008. 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 through the Croatian Chamber of Economy at http://www.hgk.hr.
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 economic advisor, Jirí Kapounek, reports that, as expected, production grew 9% in 2006.
For the past several years, as local machine-tool factories have pursued production agreements with builders in other countries, the Czech Republic has become an entrepôt in the commodity, with exports exceeding 100% of production. Most exports are to Germany (35%).
IMT, the International Machine Tools Exhibition, runs in Sept. 2008 in Brno.
Denmark
A trade show is called Metal, the biennial international trade fair for machine tools and tooling, and the 14th in the series ran April 2006 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, through which it reports statistics.
Danish production grew 7% in 2006. Like some of its neighbors, Denmark sees a certain amount of trans-shipment of machines, and so indicators like “exports as a percentage of production” run more than 100%.
Finland
A machine-tool builders’ group was started in 1986 and is now part of the Technology Industries of Finland (www.teknologiateollisuus.fi); it also is a member of the CECIMO consortium of Western European machine tool manufacturers’ organizations. National output is heavily weighted toward metalforming machines.
A trade show that includes manufacturing technology, FinnTec, next runs April 2008 in Helsinki in conjunction with a tooling show. (www.finnexpo.fi).
France
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 Symop, the association for manufacturing technologies, whose name derives from a predecessor syndicate for machine tools (machines-outil). The association, which operates www.symop.com, was reorganized in 2005 to include importers and distributors, and it is now a member of both the builders European consortium, CECIMO, and that of the distributors, CELIMO.
Symop sponsors the biennial machine-tool trade show traditionally called Machine Outil in Paris in non-EMO years, last held as part of Industrie 2006. Organizers also conduct a similar show in Lyon during EMO years; details at www.industrie-expo.com.
Germany
Statistics are compiled by Germany's machine-tool builders' group, Verein Deutscher Werkzeugmaschinenfabriken (VDW, Frankfurt), which maintains www.vdw.de, and does an excellent job of providing statistics and detailed information.
The trade association, the largest member of CECIMO, traditionally sponsors the biennial Metav German national show in Düsseldorf, which runs in non-EMO years to avoid conflicts. It runs next in early April 2008.
The giant pan-European EMO returns to Hanover, Sept. 17-22, 2007). 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. 9-13, 2008 (http://www.messe-stuttgart.de/AMB/vorank/english/index.htm).
India
India’s machine-tool industry is composed of nearly 450 manufacturers, but ten produce around 70% of output. The Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association outside New Delhi hosts a Web site.
The main metalworking show is the triennial IMTEX in Bangalore, dubbed the Indian Machine Tool Exhibition with International Participation, last held Jan., 2007.
Italy
Production edged up by a 11%, and consumption grew 7%.
Italy hosted the EMO in Oct. 2003 at the old Milan fairgrounds (http://www.emo-milano.com/). Under the new schedule adopted by sponsoring CECIMO, the next EMO (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, about halfway between downtown Milan and the international airport at Malpensa.
The machine tool group is named UCIMU- Sistemi Per Produrre. Originally UCIMU, for “Unione Costruttore Italiana Macchine Utensili” or “association of builders of Italian machine tools,” it has, like other builders’ groups, expanded its purview to embrace makers of associated factory automation or “systems of production.” It posts data at www.ucimu.it/eng/.
Japan
Japan is the world’s largest producer of machine tools. Period. It’s also the second-largest consumer, after only China.
Unlike the situation in other leading machine-tool-building countries, most Japanese builders–with just a few notable exceptions—are publicly held and are listed on the Tokyo or Osaka exchanges. This makes for a very vibrant and competitive industry, one in which spirited investors demand and get excellence.
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 JIMToF starts Oct. 31, 2008.
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.
Korea
South Korean machine-tool output increased 18%, continuing a several-year surge, to place fifth among producers. It’s also fifth among consuming nations.
The Seoul-based Korea Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association provides online information. Statistics for this report are based in the National Statistical Office (production) and the Korea Customs Service (exports and imports). KoMMA publishes an annual book, Machine Tool Statistics Handbook, which contains 215 pages of very extensive tables on the machine tool industry there.
KoMMA is the main sponsor of the biennial fair SIMTOS, the Seoul International Machine Tool Show (http://www.simtos.org/), which runs in early April 2008. The previous show was the first at the new Kintex Seoul expo center and was the largest SIMTOS in the history of that fair.
Mexico
Mexico imports more than 90% of its consumption of machine tools, and there are virtually no companies that produce machine tools. In past surveys, local production had been estimated from fragmentary data, and those sources have since become unreliable. When the statistics are out-of-date, the Production data (nor the derived Consumption figures) cannot be used, and the country is necessarily dropped from this survey’s tables. For 2006, however, sources outside Mexico were able to produce a very rough estimate—$50-million—for production, so the country is once again included in the survey.
About one-third of imports come from the U.S.; other main source are Germany and Japan, each with about one-fifth.
A generalized machinery-importers group, the AMDM, Asociación Mexicana de Distribuidores Maquinaria (Mexico City) sponsors the TECMA Mexico City show in March and maintains a web site at www.amdm.org.mx.
The Netherlands
Dutch production gained 10% in 2006, and consumption grew 6%.
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.
Portugal
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/).
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 CECIMO in Brussels
Romania
Bucharest-headquartered trade association UPROMUS (Uniunea Producătorilor Români de Maşini Unelte şi 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/).
Statistics in this survey for 2006 are unrevised from the previous year.
Russia
A biennial exhibition, Mashinostroyenie or “MashEx,” is held at the Sokolniki Exhibition Center in Moscow in late May of odd-numbered years (www.mashinostroyenie.ru). It is organized by Stankoinstrument Assn. of Machine and Tool Mfrs.
Another show, the two-decade-old Metalloobrabotka (www.expocentr.ru), concentrates on foreign machines and last ran in Moscow May 2006.
An annual tooling exposition, ISET (Tool World), runs Mar. 23-26, 2005 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.
Spain
After four difficult years, the machine-tool sector in Spain started its path to recovery in 2005, with an increase in production of 10% and with exports growing at more than 19%. The next year, although it has not been equal for all companies, in general terms has consolidated the tendency, and it can be considered a positive year.
New orders in 2006 have grown over 15%, and Xabier Ortueta of the builders’ trade group AFM estimates the pace will allow 2007 production to hit the peak seen in 2001. But the domestic market still lags, while exports into the traditional Spanish destinations of Germany, France, Intaly, Mexico, Great Britain, and Portugal are termed good. Remarkable growth is now being seen in the USA market, and large percentage increases are also foreseen for China, India, and Turkey.
Asociación Española de Fabricantes de Máquinas-herramienta (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 in early March 2008 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) next in 2009.
Sweden
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.).
Trade shows include the Scandinavian Technical Fair, which runs annually in October in Stockholm (http://www.stockholmsmassan.se/).
Switzerland
In terms of consumption, 2006 saw a 1% increase, higher when converted into U.S. dollars. On a per-capita basis, Switzerland’s consumption of $867-million means that more than one hundred dollars was spent on this class of production equipment for every person in the country. The Swiss have always had a very high per-capita consumption rate, usually ranking number one.
Around half of Swiss imports come from Germany. Germany also leads the list of Swiss export destinations, followed by the U.S. and Italy.
Machine tool builders are organized into the VSM (Verein Schweizerischer Maschinen-Industrieller), a member of CECIMO. 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.
Taiwan
Taiwan’s consumption, more than $2.5-billion in 2006, gained 14%. The country continues to have a very high per-capita rate of consumption, and last year ranked second behind only Switzerland in that measure, with more than $110 worth of new machine tools installed for each person.
Major trade shows include Manufacturing Taipei, the expanded successor to Taipei Automat, which is now known as MT Duo (for Machine Tools and Manufacturing Technology); it runs May 2008. Also there is the trade-association-organized biennial TIMTOS, the Taipei International Machine Tool Show, which ran March 2007. (http://www.taipeitradeshows.com.tw/timtos/).
Taiwan's machine tool builders' association is part of the Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry, www.tami.org/.
Turkey
The Turkish machinery companies' trade association Makina Imalatçilari Birligi, is the newest member of the CECIMO consortium, joining in 1999 as its 15th member. The group's Web page is at www.mib.org.tr. It reports that consumption gained 16% in 2006.
The biennial fair, TIME Manufacturing Technologies Exhibition is held in October 2007 in Istanbul (http://www.itf-exhibitions.com/).
United Kingdom
There’s no doubt that 2006 was a good year for growth in demand, but it’s also worth pointing out that even with a further 10% growth that is forecast for 2007, the value level will only be cack to that seen in 2000, and it will still be a ways short of the peak reached in 1997. The Manufacturing Technologies Association’s chief statistician, Geoff Noon, says there are two main drivers for forecast growth: capacity utilization in key end-user sectors has been increasing, and demand for exports is up in major markets around the world.
The MTA trade association, a CECIMO member, reports that imports equaled exports in 2006, and notes that exports continue to slightly exceed domestic production because of the re-export of machines manufactured outside the U.K. and also possibly because output data may be under-recorded.
The biennial major national machine-tool show, Mach, is part of a combined exposition at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. It’s next scheduled for April 21-25, 2008. Both builders and distributors are members of the London-based Manufacturing Technologies Association, http://www.mta.org.uk/, which sponsors the show.
American machine-tool factories in 2006 increased their output by 5%, continuing to move out of a four-year slump that had forced widespread consolidation and more than a few bankruptcies. However, Taiwan’s production increased by a double-digit percentage, and Taiwan moved ahead of the U.S. to sixth place in production.
National consumption grew by 5%, and America moves up into in third place among consumers in the world, behind China and Japan. (In 2001 the U.S. fell out of first position as leading consumer for the first time since 1993.)
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 US Manufacturing Technology Consumption 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. 8-13, 2008 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/). Also there is a series of machine-tool shows (http://www.amtda.org/shows/index.htm) organized by the distributors’ association.
CECIMO
CECIMO is the European Committee for Co-operation of the Machine Tool Industries and is based in Brussels, Belgium. During 2006 its 15 member trade associations were responsible for 41% of the world's output, about the same as the year before. Its statistical department, headed by Hélène Hotellier, 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. The giant pan-European EMO returns to Hanover, Germany in September 17-22, 2007 (http://www.emo-hannover.de/homepage_e). The next one, in 2009, will be in Milan, Italy.
Whereas CECIMO, above, is the trade association for European machine-tool producers, CELIMO handles distributors and importers. The acronym stands for Comité Européen de Liaison de Machines-Outils. It represents 13 national associations in Europe: in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
The group’s main task is coordinating statistics on trade in machine tools. Individual member associations also sponsor trade shows, sometimes different from those organized by the builders in their respective countries. Britain’s MTA in London, which has traditionally represented both builders and distributors in the U.K., acts as secretariat for CELIMO.
Hungary
Hungary’s machine-tool-producing industry suffered years of decline following the change to free-market economy and the folding 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, and production is estimated at under $10-million per annum.
The MachTech international machine manufacturing technologies trade fair (May 2007) 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.
The latest statistics show only trade information, no reliable production stats, and are several years old. Consumption is estimated at slightly over $200-million, virtually all of it imported. Most imports come from Japan or Germany.
Indonesia
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 that runs in December.
Poland
Machine-tool production for Poland was last estimated at around $190-million in 1997. With no reliable Production data, Consumption cannot be calculated, and the country is not included in this report’s tables.
Trade data is somewhat more current, with 2004 imports estimated at $475-million and exports at $86-million. Most exports go through Metalexport Group, now privatized, and its subsidiary Toolmex.
The major machine-tool show venue is the annual Poznan Fair, labeled Innovations-Technologies-Machine-Poland or ITM-Poland, which runs in June .
Slovakia
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/. Slovakian machine tool production was last estimated in 2000 at around $110-million. Imports in 2004 are estimated at $151-million, and exports at $73-million.
Thailand
Statistics on Thai production of machine tools have not been completely available, although there are several prominent factories in Thailand, especially subsidiaries of Japanese builders. The figures for 2004 of approximately $120-million were generated by Spain’s machine-tool trade association working with the Spanish embassy in Bangkok.
Imports in 2004 are estimated at $940-million, and exports at $150-million, for a domestic consumption of $910-million.
The Intermach (www.thai-exhibition.com/intermach/) metalworking-equipment exhibition runs in Bangkok in May and combines general manufacturing with a subcontractors’ show and an automotive-oriented production display.
International Trade Centre
Although it does not provide information about the domestic machine-tool-producing industry in any given country, the International Trade Centre in Geneva, Switzerland, provides reasonably up-to-date information on imports and exports. The Centre is the technical cooperation agency of the United Nations Conference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD) and the World Trade Organization.
When working with statistics from the ITC, since Production information is missing, the resulting Consumption statistic for any given country cannot be calculated in the same manner as in this survey (Consumption = Domestic Production + Imports and – Exports).
For imports and exports, go to the ITC’s International Trade Statistics page and select by Product Group 731 (Metalcutting Machine Tools) and 733 (Metalforming Machine Tools). The sum of both categories are necessary to give an approximation of the statistics in this World Machine Tool Output & Consumption Survey (definitions of some classes of machine tools vary—e.g., certain lasers or specialized electronics equipment—are not included in this Survey).
