Export structure of machine tools 2022
Machine tools more strongly focused on growth markets than machinery industry
This report compares the export markets and export regions of machine tools with those of mechanical engineering for 2022. And it highlights the export markets, which absorb the lion's share of machine tools.
Update October 4th, 2023 - A comparison with mechanical engineering clearly shows that machines tools are more strongly focused on growth markets.
A report about global industrial production since 2008 and another report about the development of machine exports from Germany to these regions examine the extent to which these are growth markets.
The manufacturers of machine tools
- export to the stagnant countries of the European Union with 41% export share relatively fewer than the machinery industry altogether with 45%
- are more strongly focused on the somewhat more dynamic BRIC countries with 23% and in particular on the still continuously growing China with 18% than the machinery industry with 14% resp. 9%
- use somewhat more strongly the growth dynamics of the MIST countries with 7% export share than the machinery industry
- export to the US in the average of the machinery industry with 13% export share.
A glance at the development of the export regions of machine tools since 2008 shows that this stronger orientation toward growth regions than in machinery industry continued in 2022, but weakened.
79% of the machine exports going only to 12% of the export countries
The export structure of machine tools is very concentrated.
- 79% of the machine exports going only to 12% of the export countries.
The ten export-strongest EU countries for rubber and plastics machines cover 34% of all exports. These ten European Union-countries are in descending ranking of their export share Italy, Austria, Poland, France, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Hungary, Spain, Sweden and the Slowakia.
Further ten export countries cover 45% of all exports.
These are the four BRIC countries (23%), the four MIST countries (7%) and the US and Japan (15%). 88% of the remaining 150 export countries take in contrast only 21% of all exports.
