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Facts and Figures

The machinery and metalware industry is Austria’s most important industrial employer by quite a margin. Here you can find out some other interesting industry facts.

 

Machinery and Metalware Industries

Trade Association of the Austrian Chemical Industry
Number of companies: approx. 1,944
Number of employees: approx. 161,282
Number of apprentices: approx. 6,930


Export share of total Austrian foreign trade in 2008: + 5,4%
Increase in goods exports in 2007: +14.9%

Around two thirds of Austrian machinery and metalware is exported.

More than EUR 14 billion, or 8% of the whole Austrian economy, is accounted for directly, indirectly or consumer-indexed by the machinery and metalware industries.
(Source: Association of the Machinery & Metalware Industries and Statistik Austria)

The ten largest companies in the Austrian machinery industry by net revenue in 2008

Source: goldener trend 2009. trend Spezial 2 - Juni 2009
1. Andritz AG 3.610
2. A-Tec Industries AG (Kovats Group) 3.257
3. Liebherr International Austria GmbH
 2.359
4. Palfinger AG 795
5. Doppelmayr Holding AG 680
6. Engel Ludwig KG (cons. as Engel worldwide) 590
7. GE Jenbacher GmbH & Co KG 570
8. Plasser & Theurer Export von Bahnbaumaschinen GmbH 554
9. Ortner 507
10. Lisec GmbH 478


VOEST-ALPINE Industrieanlagen GmbH & Co (Siemens VAI), one of the largest Austrian companies for machinery, steel and plant engineering in 2006, is not included in this table.

 
Last Modified 16. March 2010
 
 
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