The new Quest Economic Report determines the trend growth of production of the German machinery industry. The trend is set to be the average of the last 12 months. Since March 2017, a production growth trend has developed with a […]
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Are export shares of German machines synchronous with the industrial production of export countries?
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These countries accounted for 75% of machine exports from Germany in 2017. The comparison of machine exports and industrial production is useful as industrial production is an important economic indicator for the demand for machines. The Quest Export Report identifies […]
Ranking of the ten most attractive EU countries for machine exports from Germany
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Industrial production is the most important economic indicator for the demand for machinery. So the new Quest Report compares the development of industrial production in the ten EU countries that alone account for 80% of German machinery exports to the […]
Machine exports to China again ahead of the USA – for the first time since 2014
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Machine exports to China saved the German mechanical engineering industry from a sudden crash in the global economic crisis of 2008/2009. The export ratio to China climbed from 6.6% to 9% in the crisis, then 10.7% and reached its previous […]
Slightly declining market shares of packaging machines from Germany in the EU 2017 – new Quest sector report
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In the EU, sales of packaging machines increased by 7% from 2016 to 2017. Sales of outer packaging machines, which account for the lion’s share, rose by 10%, filling and sealing machines fell by 3% and sales of cleaning machines […]
Growth trends in production and sales in the German mechanical engineering in July 2018 at the same level of 3.2% p.a.
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Since March 2017, production in the German mechanical engineering sector showed a growth trend of 3.2% per annum until July 2018. This growth trend has replaced a five-year stagnation phase during which production increased by only 0.7% per year. The […]
Trade war of the US with China: Trump’s reasons for protective tariffs are misleading and hypocritical
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According to Trump, the protective tariffs are intended to eliminate the "unfair" US trade deficit with China, protect jobs in the US and prevent further "theft" of intellectual property and American technology. The fact is that the numbers of the […]
Growth trends in production and sales of the German automotive industry at new ten-year high – new Quest Report
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The growth trend in car production is 2.4% per year from the beginning of 2014 to July 2018. This is almost on par with the 2.6% annual growth in world automobile production from 2007 to 2017. This July the growth […]
The growth rates of industrial production for 82% of German machinery industry’s export countries
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The new report in the Quest Trend Magazine identifies the yearly growth rates of the global industrial production, the most important economic indicator for machinery industry and automation technology. The new report covers countries that absorbed 82% of all machine […]
The degree of realization of Industry 4.0 in the sectors of the German machinery industry – Quest study
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The new report in the Quest Trend Magazine publishes from the study the degrees of realization of Industry 4.0 in machine automation in ten sectors of mechanical engineering. The "degrees of realization" correspond to the five development stages in which […]