Printing and paper handling machines and machinery industry 2008 - 2020

Printing and paper handling machines slightly below average compared to machinery industry

This report documents the changeful course of production and sales of printing and paper handling machines from 2008 to 2020 compared to the German machinery industry.

November 18, 2021 - Production and sales in the printing and paper handling machines and machinery industry are both related to the pre-crisis year 2008 as a common starting point and set equal to 100. Different developments are thus visible at a glance.

Production in the sector shows above-average and below-average developments compared to the machinery industry.

From 2011, the year in which the global economic crisis was overcome, to 2020, production of printing and paper handling machines fell by an average of -1.6% per year, while that of machinery industry dropped by -1.0% per year.

The production of printing and paper handling machines therefore develops slightly below average compared to the machinery industry.

Slightly below average sales development of printing and paper handling machines

The development of sales is similar to that of the production of printing and paper handling machines.

Sales of printing and paper handling machines fell slightly by -0.5% on average each year, while those of machinery industry increases slightly by +0.3% p.a. in the period from 2011 to 2020. 

At 101.8 index points, sector sales closed 2020 slightly above the level of 12 years ago, while those of the machinery industry ended the year slightly below at 97.9 index points.

Like production, sales of printing and paper handling machines developed slightly below average compared with machinery industry in the period from 2011 to 2020.

A look at foreign and domestic sales shows significant fluctuations for printing and paper handling machines.

The sector's foreign sales fell by an average of -3.2% each year, while those of machinery industry increased by +0.6% p.a.

The industry's foreign sales thus developed below average compared with the machinery industry.

Domestic sales of printing and paper handling machines grew from 2015 to 2020 and jumped upward in 2020. Domestic sales in the sector therefore developed at an above-average rate compared with machinery industry.