The global market of machinery manufacturing industry has been hit hard by global financial crisis. With the lack of dramatic change to overall environment, there is not much optimism about the machine tool industry in 2013. Currently the domestic market demand for machine tools in China continues to shrink significantly, yet the import volume of machine tools continues to grow. In terms of product structure, the imported machine tools in China are mainly high-end products. Along with the further industrialization in China, the requirements for efficiency and reliability of machine tools have been significantly raised thus indicating a new ongoing change to global economic structure....
I.Foreword
II.Global market sales revenue
III.Major producing countries
IV.Production situations of countries all over the world
V.Rising global import/export value of machine tool
VI.Status of consumption
VII.IEK View
Figure 1 Sales revenue and growth rate of global machine tool market in 2011~2015
Figure 2 Market shares of major supplying countries of global machine tools in 2012
Figure 3 Global production volume of metal processing machine tools in 2008~2012
Table 1 Global top 10 countries and regions in terms of machine tool output value in 2012
Table 2 Top 10 machine tool exporting countries in the world in 2012
Table 3 Top 10 machine tool importing countries in the world in 2012
Table 4 Top 10 machine tool consuming countries in the world in 2012