Export structure of rubber and plastics machines 2022
Rubber and plastics machines more strongly focused on growth markets than machinery industry
This report compares the export markets and export regions of rubber and plastics machines with those of mechanical engineering for 2022. And it highlights the export markets, which absorb the lion's share of rubber and plastics machines.
October 3rd, 2023 - A comparison with mechanical engineering clearly shows that rubber and plastics machines are more strongly focused on growth markets.
A report about global industrial production since 2008 and another report about the development of machine exports from Germany to these regions examine the extent to which these are growth markets.
The manufacturers of rubber and plastics machines
- are twice as focused on the somewhat more dynamic BRIC countries with 29% and on the still continuously growing China (22%) than the machinery industry
- export to the stagnant countries of the European Union with 28% export share clearly fewer than the machinery industry altogether with 45%
- use the US market with 15% slightly more strongly than the machinery industry
- benefit more strongly from the growth dynamics of the MIST countries with 7% export share than the machinery industry.
A glance at the development of the export regions of rubber and plastics machines since 2008 shows that this stronger orientation toward growth regions than in machinery industry strengthened by 2022.
74% of the machine exports going only to 12% of the export countries
The export structure of rubber and plastics machines is very concentrated.
- 74% of the machine exports going only to 12% of the export countries.
The ten export-strongest EU countries for rubber and plastics machines cover 22% of all exports. These ten European Union-countries are in descending ranking of their export share Italy, Poland, France, Austria, Czech Republic, Spain, the Netherland, Hungary, Romania and the Slovakia.
Further ten export countries cover 52% of all exports.
These are the four BRIC countries (29%), the US and Japan (15%) and the four MIST countries (7%). 88% of the remaining 145 export countries take in contrast only 26% of all exports.
