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Sector covered in the first phase 2002/03: Manufacture of Machinery and Equipment
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Focus of analysis
The NACE classification of "Manufacture of machinery and
equipment" (29) is subdivided into seven groups. The ICT and e-Business Market
Watch focuses on the groups of industrial processing machinery (that means codes
29.1, 29.2, 29.4 and 29.5) and of agricultural machines and tractors (29.3):
| Code |
Activity |
| 29.1 |
Manufacture of machinery
for the production and use of mechanical power, except aircraft, vehicle and
cycle engines |
| 29.2 |
Manufacture of other
general purpose machinery |
| 29.3 |
Manufacture of
agricultural and forestry machinery |
| 29.4 |
Manufacture of
machine-tools |
| 29.5 |
Manufacture of other
special purpose machinery |
Weapons and ammunitions (29.6) as well as domestic appliances
(29.7) are excluded of the analysis because of the following reasons:
- Codes from 29.1 to 29.5 all concern manufacture of equipment for other
industries: these are all intermediate goods or factors of production so that
they all concern B2B
- Weapons and ammunitions include hunting and sporting fire-arms, as well as
products for military use (tanks, artillery, small arms, bombs). The market
structure of this sub-sector differs considerably from the rest of machinery and
equipment industry.This part of the industry is very concentrated, with
government often being the main customer and demand largely determined by the
evolution of the defence budgets. Due to the high degree of strict
confidentiality in this sectors, it may also prove to be difficult to obtain
survey interviews about the usage and plans of using ICTs.
- Domestic appliances are products for consumers so that the market is
completely different from machinery and equipment for industrial use. Therefore,
domestic appliances are usually analysed as a separate sector. Including them in
this sector would practically mean to split the survey and the reports into two
distinct sub-sectors and make it complicate to draw general conclusions.
Machinery and equipment is one of the largest activities in the
European manufacturing economy, contributing about 10% of EU production value
and employing more than 10% of manufacturing workforce. Most manufacturers are
highly specialised and their production is often made for a narrowly defined
downstream industry. As a consequence, relatively small enterprises can be
international players in this industry, which is very much shaped by small and
medium-sized enterprises (<250 employees) in the EU. The market can be
subdivided into very standardised products characterised by a high level of
price-competition and custom-made products, from design through to the training
of the workforce.
European associations
- CECIMO - European Committee for the Co-operation of the Machine Tool
Industries; Avenue Louise 66, B-1050 Brussels, Tel: ++32-2-502.70.90, Fax:
32-2-502-60.82, www.cecimo.be
- Orgalime - European federation of national industrial associations
representing the European mechanical, electrical, electronic and metal articles
industries; Boulevard Auguste Reyers- 80, 1030 Brussels, Belgium;
Phone:++32-2-706-8235; Telefax:++32-2-706-8250, www.orgalime.org
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