90% of the turnover of the machine-Spanish tool came from in 2011 of the outside
8 May 2012
Last year started on the right foot, the EMO fair, after the summer, he did wake up the optimism, but the final stretch of the year was not good. "Well - explains José Ignacio Torrecilla - we have not been able to achieve the figures that we hoped and the panorama that we envision for 2012 holds many unknowns". Despite everything, as they have pointed out the day before the Assembly of AFM, the perception is that sales in 2012 will be the same as the 2011.
Anyway, the whole of the manufacturing technologies sector grew up in billing a 22.7%, with a turnover of 1.250,1 million euros. Machine tools accounted 771.3 million euros, a 22.1% more compared to the previous year. Components, accessories and tools, 320,4 million euros, one 10.8% increase, and the other machines and technologies, 180,3 million euros, 56.3% more than in 2010. Exports accounted for more than 80% of the global figures for the sector, which in the case of the maquinas‐herramienta reached a striking 90.1% of the turnover.
In 2011 China was the first market of destination of the machine for the first time in our history with 108.4 m exported (15.6%). The following four markets were Germany 105.7 m (15.2%), Mexico 49.3 m (7.1%), India 39.9 m (5.7%) and France 37.8 m (5.4%).
