VDMA Construction Equipment and Building Material Machinery

Slump in 2009 – Rally in 2010

For the German construction equipment and building material machinery industry sales fell in 2009 nominally by 43 per cent to 9.5 billion €.

It is the building material machinery‘s turnover in particular which collapsed in 2009: by 51 per cent to 5.3 billion € compared to the previous year. With construction equipment the decrease in sales was a little less dramatic – it fell by 18 per cent to 4.2 billion €. In both industries, the amount of incoming orders also dropped clearly compared to 2008, with construction equipment by 46 per cent, with building material machinery by 58 per cent. Here...

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