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News Release from: VDW | Subject: EMO Hannover 2005 machine tool show
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 September 2005
Machine tool show appears in a healthy
climate
The German Machine Tool Builders' Association - VDW - on the 'eve' of the EMO 2005 exhibition - reports a coming market demand rise of 8% for the 2000+ exhibitors.
EMO Hannover 2005, the world's leading trade fair for metalworking, will be hosted from 14 to 21 September in a highly encouraging global economic environment World machine tool production will rise by 8%
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 19 Jul 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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A week before the start of the event Dr Detlev Elsinghorst, general commissioner of EMO Hannover 2005, is convinced that the exhibitors will profit from this healthy climate.
EMO Hannover 2005 will see 2 000 exhibitors from 39 countries present their innovations for industrial manufacture on almost 162 000m2 of net floor space.
And this yet again makes EMO Hannover the greatest and most international trade fair for metalworking worldwide.
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Without a single exception all nations manufacturing machine tools are represented in Hanover.
The largest contingent of exhibitors after Germany (839 exhibitors) come from Italy (292), Switzerland (134), Taiwan (126), Spain (78), and Japan (71).
A good half of these exhibitors are machine tool providers.
In Germany machine tool building has got off to a good start in the current year.
Within the first six months production rose by 9% without installation and repair figures.
This encouraging result was promoted by exports, which grew by 13%.
Domestic sales on the other hand rose by 3% only.
Among the top ten export markets China, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Russia experienced double-digit growth.
China continues to maintain its number one position far ahead of the USA and the key West Europeans.
Worthy of special note is Russia, which continued to work ahead from eighth to seventh place.
Employment stabilised in the first six months.
With 65 150 personnel the average over the first half year corresponded to that of 2004.
Utilised capacity was 91% in the first six months, therefore higher than the 2004 average.
Also order levels rose slightly to 6.4 months.
The previous year's high growth of almost 20% also affected the incoming orders for 2005, which grew by 2% in the first seven months.
A clear discrepancy between the demand characteristics from home and abroad could be foreseen as early as in the second half of 2004.
Customers from abroad continue to safeguard trade: whereas they ordered 1 per cent more German machine tools than the previous year's figures, domestic orders sank by 8%.
Elsinghorst sees the reasons for this discrepancy above all in the uncertainties of the future political framework.
Also, many customers wanted nonetheless to utilise the innovations at EMO as an orientation aid for investments in the latest available technology.
On the basis of the available data, the VDW still expects that the 2005 machine tool production in Germany will again rise by 5% to reach EUR 10.1 billion, almost the record level of 2001.
* Machine tools set the pace of industrial progress - EMO Hannover 2005 offers production experts from all over the world an excellent overview of the innovations for industrial production.
The heart of production is the machine tool.
All industrially manufactured products are made either directly or indirectly on machine tools.
Without machine tools there is no industry and no industrial progress.
Now as then the global competition is primarily concerned with enhancing machine availability and flexibility and cutting manufacturing costs.
The technological modernisation of production is therefore a constant challenge for all industrial branches.
The focus of EMO exhibitors is therefore directed to international customers from the automotive and parts supply industries, machine engineering, aerospace technologies, electrical industries, medical engineering, fine mechanics, optics, and metal product manufacturers.
Over four fifths of international machine tool production serve these industrial branches.
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