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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 2007, 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.
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, April 3-8, 2009. Another show, FIMAQH, run in Late-May to early-June 2008, has been directly competitive in the same city.
Argentine production, reported in U.S. dollars, continues to grow in output. For 2007 estimated production is $32-million, up 100% from the previous year, following a 20% increase in 2006. The country is a heavy importer, and consumption ($164-million, up 13%) is five times domestic production.
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 again was unchanged in 2007 while domestic production increased 8% following a small decline previously.
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, with the 2008 show in Sydney. Get more information about the trade association at www.amtil.com.au/.
Austria
Consumption grew by 14% in 2007, and local production grew by 29%, on the heels of virtually no change in 2006.
Trade in machine tools is important for this CECIMO member. As one of those economies characterized as “entrepôt,” Austria’s exports in some years exceed 100% of production.
A privately staged biennial show run by Reed Exhibitions called Intertool runs as part of an umbrella trade fair called Vienna-Tec (http://www.vienna-tec.at/) Oct. 2008 in Vienna.
Primary contact for the machine-tool industry is through the larger machinery and metalware industries trade group known as FMS, or Fachverband Maschinen & Metallwaren Industrie in Vienna. The trade association maintains a Web site at www.fmmi.at/.
BelgiumFor further organizational information, click www.agoria.be/.
The Brussels-based machine-tool organization in Belgium belongs to CECIMO. It is supported by the Mechanical Engineering sector of Agoria, the federation of trade groups in a number of industries.
Consumption in Belgium grew 18% (in euros) in 2007 while production—dominated by metalforming machines—grew 9%.
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 200%, because figures include re-exported machines.
BrazilThe 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 ran 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.
Brazilian production, reported in U.S. dollars, grew 21% in 2007 following a 10% rate of growth the year prior.
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, these represent the most significant part of the industry, and figures here are projected for the entire sector.
CanadaThe Canadian Machine Tool Distributors’ Assn. (www.cmtda.com) and the Canadian Tooling & Machining Assn. (www.ctma.com) both have been sponsors of the Montreal Manufacturing Technology Show in May 2008. There is also the Toronto-based CMTS (Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show, Oct. 2007, scheduled to run again in 2009), traditionally the largest forum for machine tools in the country; it, too, is produced by SME.
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 in the 2008 Survey represents a rough estimate with input from the Ottawa ministry, Industry Canada (www.ic.gc.ca), from the distributors’ group, and from neighboring traders in the U.S. 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.
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.
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 $13-billion. During 2007 consumption grew to $15.4-billion.
Chinese consumption, as a percentage of total estimated world production of $71-billion, amounts to 23%. 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 43%, solidifying its spot as 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 (Apr. 21-25 2008) in Beijing (it had been in Shanghai).
CroatiaStatistics are unrevised for 2007. ALSTRO, the Croatian Association of Manufacturing Technology, is located in Zagreb and may be contacted via e-mail at mailto:alstro@zg.htnet.hr or on the Web through the Croatian Chamber of Economy at http://www.hgk.hr.
BIAM, the 18th biennial international machine-tool fair, runs in Zagreb in May 2008 and typically includes 300 exhibitors. Info at http://www.zv.hr/sajmovi/220/index_en.html.
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 production grew 30% in 2007 (higher, when converted to U.S. dollars).
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.
DenmarkDanish production grew 5% in 2007. 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%.
A trade show is called Metal, the biennial international trade fair for machine tools and tooling, and the 15th in the series runs October 2008 in Fredericia (http://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.
FinlandA trade show that includes manufacturing technology, FinnTec, runs April 2008 in Helsinki in conjunction with a tooling show. (www.finnexpo.fi).
A machine-tool builders’ group was started in 1986 and is now part of the Federation of Finnish Technology Industries (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.
FranceSymop sponsors the biennial machine-tool trade show traditionally called Machine Outil in Paris in non-EMO years, held as part of Industrie 2008 in early April. Organizers also conduct a similar show in Lyon during EMO years; details at www.industrie-expo.com.
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.
GermanyA privately organized show, AMB, runs in Stuttgart, Sept. 9-13, 2008 (http://www.messe-stuttgart.de/AMB/vorank/english/index.htm).
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.
Whereas the country is one of the largest and the most diverse producers, shipments tend to be stable year-to-year. Estimated German production of machine tools increased 15% (in euros) in 2007, more in metalcutting machines than in metalforming machines. Moreover, taking into consideration that order intake in 2006 already was up 18% and that orders received in the first months of 2007continued this remarkable upswing in demand (domestic orders up 30% and those from abroad up 25%), the production forecast seems conservative. Order backlogs will have increasing turnover continuing to increase during 2008, forecasts VDW Marketing Director Gerhard Hein. During 2007 German producers recruited staff, and in November of last year a survey showed an increase of 2,200 employees in the sector.
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 in early April.
The giant pan-European EMO that runs in odd-numbered years will be staged next in Milan in 2009. It returns to Hanover, Germany, for 2011 and 2013, traditionally in September. (After its 2009 staging, Italy presents the show in 2015.)
IndiaThe main metalworking show is the traditionally triennial IMTEX in Bangalore, dubbed the Indian Machine Tool Exhibition with International Participation, set for Jan., 2009; it has evolved into a metalcutting-machine show. A spin-off exhibition, IMTEX Forming 2010, will run one year later. A new event, Modern Machine Shop 2008, runs April 2008 in New Delhi and attempts to draw a wider range of factory equipment and automation
India’s machine-tool industry is composed of nearly 450 manufacturers, but ten produce around 70% of output. Shipments grew 19% (in rupees, more in dollars) in 2007. The Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association outside New Delhi hosts a Web site.
ItalyThe Italian 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/. In addition to hosting the next EMO, UCIMU stages a series of shows including the biennial Italian national machine-tool show called Bi-MU (Oct. 2008), which runs in conjunction with a subcontracting expo.
Production gained 17% in 2007, and consumption grew227%. Alfredo Mariotti, who heads the builders’ group outside Milan, notes that orders in the first three quarters of last year gained more than 21% over the same period in 2006. The growth of domestic orders slightly exceeded that of export orders. The organization is expecting domestic demand and imports to pick up again in 2008.
Italy last hosted the biennial EMO in 2003 at the old Milan fairgrounds within the city. Under the schedule recently adopted by sponsoring CECIMO, the next two EMOs (2005 and 2007) were 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 city is promoting the new FieraMilano fairgrounds for a World’s Fair in 2015.
JapanJapan'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.
Japan is the world’s largest producer of machine tools. It produces approximately one-fifth of the world’s value of machine tools. 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. 30, 2008. Recently, the forming-machine trade association has announced it will launch its own MetalForming & Fabricating Fair Tokyo 2009, scheduled for mid-October that year.
KoreaKoMMA 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.
South Korean machine-tool output increased 11%, continuing a several-year surge, to place fifth among producers. It’s sixth among consuming nations.
The Seoul-based Korea Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association provides online information. Statistics for this report have been 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 extensive tables on the machine tool industry there.
MexicoA generalized machinery-importers group that includes distributors of construction and agricultural machines, 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.
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 2007, however, sources outside Mexico were able to produce a very rough estimate—around $165-million—for production (based on a formula derived from trade), 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.
The NetherlandsMachine-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.
Dutch production again gained 10% in 2007, and consumption, also, grew 10%.
PortugalThe 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
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/).
RomaniaProduction statistics in this survey for 2007 are unrevised from the previous year; however, trade figures are up-to-date.
The Bucharest-headquartered trade association CROMUS (Union of the Romanian Center for Machine Tools & Tools, www.cromus.ro), with assistance of its New York City office, provides data for the Survey. (CROMUS supplanted a previous organization, UPROMUS, in 2006.) Traian Cruceru, president of CROMUS, notes that most imports come from Germany, Italy, Japan, and France. Exports—three-quarters of which are cutting machines—go to a variety of countries ranging from Mexico to Germany to Ukraine.
RussiaRussian 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.
An exhibition, the International Exhibition Mashinostroenie or “MashEx,” is held at the Crocus Exhibition Center in Moscow in late May www.mashinostroyenie.ru. It is organized by a show-production company and carries the support of several organizations, including the Union of Russian Machine Builders
Another show, the two-decade-old biennial Metallo Obrabotka (www.expocentr.ru), concentrates on foreign machines and runs in Moscow late May 2008. An organizer is Stankoinstrument.
SpainAFM’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. Another show, Maquitec, runs in Barcelona (www.maquitec.com) next in 2009.
Estimates for 2007 production (up 7%) and export (up 10%) represent a very good year for the Spanish industry, representing four consecutive years of growth. New orders in 2007 have grown over 25%, and the builders’ trade group AFM estimates the pace will allow 2008 production to continue its growth.
The domestic market continues to grow but still shows signs of a recovering situation. Export markets are strong, both in traditional European markets (Germany, Italy, France) and in the Brazil, Russia, India, China group.
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/.
SwedenTrade shows include the Scandinavian Technical Fair, which runs annually in October in Stockholm (http://www.stockholmsmassan.se/).
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.).
SwitzerlandMachine 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.
In terms of consumption, 2007 saw a 14% increase, higher when converted into U.S. dollars. On a per-capita basis, Switzerland’s consumption of $1.28-billion means that more than $170 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.
TaiwanData for this survey continues to come from the Taipei-headquartered broad trade group, Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry, www.tami.org/.
Taiwan’s consumption, more than $3.78-billion in 2007, gained 31%, more than doubling the rate of the previous year’s increase. 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 $165 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, organized by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council, TAITRA. Also there’s been the biennial TIMTOS, the Taipei International Machine Tool Show, which runs March 2009.
In October 2007, the Taiwan Machine Tool & Accessory Builders’ Assn. (in Taichung, www.tmba.org.tw) was set up as an independent, not-for-profit organization. Its chartered purposes include promoting internal industrial cooperation projects and global machine tool shows.
TurkeyThe biennial fair, TIME Manufacturing Technologies Exhibition was held in October 2007 in Istanbul (http://www.itf-exhibitions.com/).
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.
United KingdomThe biennial major national machine-tool show, Mach, is part of a combined exposition at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. It’s 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.
In the U.K., demand for machine tools had been strong throughout 2007, but there was a dip in second-quarter deliveries that observers put down to a simple inability to get machines. The Manufacturing Technologies Association’s chief statistician, Geoff Noon, says his group expects some growth in 2008, largely due to a comparison with the weak 2Q2007; the overall level of business is likely to level off. A couple of the larger manufacturers have or are about to expand capacity in their plants, and this will lead to an increase in production in 2008. Given that these factories have a global or continental focus, this should be good for exports.
The MTA trade association, a CECIMO member, reports that exports exceeded production again in 2007. Several possibilities include an underreported output, machines manufactured abroad and re-exported elsewhere, or export of used machines that are not identified from new ones.
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/).
American machine-tool factories in 2007 decreased their output by 3%, with machine and parts availability causing part of the backlog. The U.S. remains 7th among producing nations.
National consumption slackened 3%, and America moves into fourth place among consumers in the world, behind China, Japan, and Germany. (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 U.S. 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.
CECIMO
CECIMO is the European Committee for Co-operation of the Machine Tool Industries and is based in Brussels, Belgium. During 2007 its 15 member trade associations were responsible for around 43% 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, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the 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 Milan, Italy in October 2009. The next one, in 2011, will be in Hanover, Germany.
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.
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.
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 2008) 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 under $200-million, virtually all of it imported. Most imports come from Germany or Japan.
IndonesiaA U.K.-based exhibition services firm has scheduled Machine Tool Indonesia as part of its Manufacturing Indonesia series for Jakarta that runs in December.
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.
PolandThe major machine-tool show venue is the annual Poznan Fair, labeled Innovations-Technologies-Machine-Poland or ITM-Poland, which runs in June.
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 2006 imports estimated at $485-million and exports at $125-million. Most exports go through Metalexport Group, now privatized, and its subsidiary Toolmex.
In 2006 a new Polish builders’ organization was formed, with a secretariat in Pleszew. It now includes as members more than half of the country’s major machine tool manufacturers but has not yet organized a statistical database. Contact the SPPO Stowarzyszenie Polskich Producentów Obrabiare via its Web site at www.sppo.pl.
Slovakia
The Slovakian Association of Machine Tools & Tooling Builders has been 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 2006 are estimated at $230-million, and exports at $95-million.
ThailandThe 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.
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 2006 are estimated at around $1,210-million, and exports at $190-million, for a domestic retention exceeding $1-billion.
International Trade CentreFor 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).
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).
