In 2011 the German machinery and equipment manufacturing industry growth of 14%
Machinery and equipment manufacturing industry in Germany and successfully overcome the biggest economic crisis since the war. In 2010, the industry's sales grew 8% than 2009. VDMA ( VDMA ) is expected in 2011, the industry will achieve the growth of 14% share, growth mainly comes from the enterprise, association and cooperation between governments, which are also reflected in the economic crisis. After the financial crisis broke out, machinery manufacturing 25% appeared in decline, but due to the mechanical equipment manufacturing industry needs a large number of professional and technical personnel, so employment by a mere 3.4%, also be able to quickly recover from the crisis.
From the development power of speaking, first of all, the export of machinery and equipment manufacturing industry is the important engine of growth. 2010 from foreign orders growth rate is much higher than the domestic, Asia and South America and other emerging market demand grows especially quickly. Current, the industry capacity utilization rate remained at about 88.8%, more than 85% of the normal level.
From the development trend of speaking, different subfields development situation is different: in the manufacturing industry of equipment of machinery of the 32 professional branch, metallurgical equipment, electrical power system, electrical automation equipment, mining equipment industry sales have reached again 2006-2008 year high level, while in the construction machinery, building materials equipment and printing paper technology and other fields, its sales and before a few years of existence certain disparity.