Machine tool industry 2019/2020Digital networking is becoming a hot topic

The VDW expects the machine tool industry to decline by 18 percent this year, but also sees the downturn as an opportunity for the industry to reinvent itself. The biggest lever here is digital networking.

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Capacity utilization
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In 2019, the machine tool industry was still able to benefit from the good order backlog and achieve a good result. Nevertheless, capacity utilization fell below the long-term average of 87%-
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