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Sector covered in the first phase 2002/03:
Manufacture of Machinery and Equipment
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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