2013 is expected to be a difficult year in general, and a great resources to sustain all these activities. Our aim should be technical and business effort will need to be made to sell to have the flexibility of a small business and the soundness increasingly complex equipment in markets ever further of a large one, and to achieve that we need to scale our busi- from home. The severe drop in trade margins due to this ness accordingly”. tremendous struggle for market positioning is indeed a Against the demanding international backdrop, correctly major concern. “Global demand for manufacturing techno- sizing our company is the key to our competitiveness, as se a hat any logies will continue to grow and create opportunities for our otherwise it could create limitations that may even po companies in both the short and long term, although these threat to our survival. “Faced with this need, it is clear t opportunities will be increasingly further away from home now more than ever is the time to nurture all the comp and they will be more complex and technologically deman- cooperation and integration processes in order to grow. ding. To compete in such complex technological fields, Opportunities have been excellent since AFM-Advanced sectors and markets, we need to develop capacities that can Manufacturing Technologies grouped together the entire only be sustained with a minimum critical mass. We need to value chain. I believe that with effort from the association attract the most qualified, competent people and we need to and commitment from the companies, this time, as before, be radically innovative, always on hand to solve our custo- we will indeed be able to take a major step in that direction,” mers’ problems, and with the productive and financial José Ignacio Torrecilla stated. Spanish exports of accessories for machine tools by country in 2012 (percentage over the total) 32,3% 3,3% 6,9% 3,8% 3,8% 4,3% 4,5% 5,4% 16,3% FRANCE: 16,3% GERMANY: 11,8% PORTUGAL: 7,4% SWITZERLAND: 6,9% ITALY: 5,4% POLAND: 4,5% INDIA: 4,3% USA: 3,8% UNITED KINGDOM: 3,8% NETHERLANDS: 3,3% OTHERS: 32,3% 11,8% 7,4% Spanish exports in machine tools by countries in 2012 (percentage of total) 19,9% CHINA: 19,9% GERMANY: 12,5% FRANCE: 7% INDIA: 5,8% MEXICO: 5,5% BRAZIL: 4,9% USA: 4,9% PORTUGAL: 4,1% TURKEY: 4% RUSSIA: 3,2% OTHERS: 28,2% 3,2% 28,2% 4,0% 4,1% 12,5% 7,0% 4,9% 5,8% 4,9% 5,5% -29,5% Spanish machine tool industry (million of Euros and % over previous year) +22,1% PRODUCTION 900 -25% 800 700 IMPORT EXPORT -15,2% CONSUMPTION 851,7 782,4 694,9 + 771,3 22,1% +12,6% - +10,4% 631,9 +43,5% - 15,2% - 484,2 -12,3% 357,4 307,6 302,6 -11% 13,9% 1,6% 209,7 231,2 233,3 +0,9% +10,3% +0,7% 600 -56% 500 400 300 200 100 0 2010 2011 2012 Spanish industry of accessoriesfor machine tools (million euros and percentage over previous year) /7 EXPORT PRODUCTION 60,0 50,0 40,0 30,0 20,0 10,0 0,0 +10,8% 40,8 46,0 -12,6% 2011 47,9 -4,2% 26,8 30,4 -13,2% 25,5 -4,9% 2010 2012 Report