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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

Source: Trade Association of the Austrian Chemical Industry 2011

Number of companies:

approx. 1,927

Number of employees:

approx. 158,700

Number of apprentices:

approx. 6,491


Export share of total Austrian foreign trade in 2011: + 21.6%
Increase in goods exports in 2011: +12.2%

Around two thirds of Austrian machinery and metalware is exported.
(Source: Association of the Machinery & Metalware Industries and Statistics Austria)

The ten largest companies in the Austrian machinery industry by net revenue in Mio. Euro (2011)

Source: NEWS trend 2012, top 1000

1.

Andritz AG

4,596.00

2.

Liebherr International Austria GmbH

2,275.00

3.

Palfinger AG

845.68

4.

Engel Ludwig KG (kons. zu Engel weltweit)

839.00

5.

GE Jenbacher GmbH & Co KG

720.00

6.

Doppelmayr Holding AG

618.20

7.

Hoerbiger Kompresstechnik Holding GmbH

549.10

8.

Ortner

512.00

9.

Plasser & Theurer Export von Bahnbaumaschinen GmbH

500.00

10.

Fronius International GmbH

403.00


Last modified
15. April 2013
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