Analysis of Status Quo of French Machine Tool Equipment Manufacturing and Sales Market

The French domestic machine tool equipment manufacturing industry mainly manufactures various metal processing equipment, wood processing equipment, machine tools with built-in engines, power saws, metal cutting equipment, polishing equipment, welding equipment, and includes materials for stone, glass, ceramics and other similar materials. The polishing process of grinding equipment and other products.

The production business of the French machine tool and equipment manufacturing industry encountered great difficulties in 2004, and its operating conditions have improved significantly. However, since 2007 it has re-entered stagnation. At present, the production business of the French machine tool equipment manufacturing industry is obviously lower than the level of early 2000.

1. China has become the third largest consumer of French machine tool equipment products. For many years, the French machine tool and equipment manufacturing industry has maintained a huge structural deficit in foreign trade, despite the fact that the deficit level has narrowed during recent years. However, its overall size is still very impressive (see Table 2). In 2007, the total export value of French machine tool equipment products reached 1.751 billion euros, an increase of 4.8% compared with the previous year, and its total import volume was 3.005 billion euros, with a total deficit of 1.254 billion euros.

Since 2004, the total export volume of French machine tool equipment products has maintained an overall upward trend. Among them, Germany, Belgium, Spain and Italy are the most important export markets for the French machine tool equipment manufacturing industry.

At present, France’s sales of machine tool and equipment products to countries in Asia and the Middle East have maintained a fairly strong upward trend. China has rapidly become France’s third largest consumer of machine tool and equipment products, and demand for fully digitally controlled high-end complex machine tool equipment is very high. exuberant.

At the same time, since 2003, the total imports of French machine tool equipment products have also maintained a regular upward trend. Among them, countries in Western Europe (mainly including Germany, Italy, and Switzerland), the United States, China, and Japan are the most important suppliers of machine tool equipment imported from France. The French imports of standardized machine tool equipment from China have been rising rapidly.

In view of the fact that a number of large-scale machine tool equipment manufacturing enterprise groups with international status have subsidiaries in France, a considerable proportion of the import and export business of French machine tool equipment is in fact different from those of foreign-funded enterprise groups. Internal transactions completed between national subsidiaries.

Second, the degree of internationalization of French machine tool equipment manufacturers is getting higher and higher The current export market of machine tool and equipment products in the world is basically led by Germany and Japan. In 2006, the two countries’ share in the international market was as high as 19.4%. And 16.5%, while France's share is less than 3% (see Table 3). The total annual turnover of the machine tool equipment manufacturing industry in Europe is approximately 35 billion euros. At present, one out of every two machine tool equipment products produced in Europe is one from Germany, and one out of every four machine tool equipment products is from Italy.

However, in addition to fierce competition from emerging economies such as China, South Korea, and China Taiwan, these major European machine tool equipment producers are also threatened by competition from some new members of the European Union. In response to the new competition challenges, some of the world's most important machine tool and equipment manufacturing countries have chosen to directly invest and set up factories in the form of cooperation agreements with local manufacturers within these emerging economies with great market potential. These factories mainly produce standardized machine tool equipment products with extremely fierce market competition, as well as machine tool equipment products sold according to product catalogs.

Up to now, the manufacturing business of machine tool equipment products sold under the product catalog has also been monopolized by some large-scale enterprise groups with world-wide scale.

3. French machine tool equipment manufacturing companies have turned their production operations to highly automated products. French machine tool equipment manufacturing companies have chosen to adjust their main business activities to the production of various high-tech machine tool equipment products. These companies rely on what they have learned. Production skills, so as to be able to maintain a strong competitive edge in this particular segmented product market. For example, the French company's production of fully automated multi-function machine tool equipment products can greatly reduce and simplify different types of operating procedures.

It is for this reason that expanding investment in the research and development of new products is of great importance for maintaining the long-term development of French machine tool manufacturing companies.

At present, French machine tool and equipment manufacturing companies are mainly aiming at improving two important indicator parameters in the research and development of new products: namely, how to improve the production efficiency and processing accuracy of the equipment. At the same time, the new generation of machine tool equipment products must meet increasingly stringent safety standards and provide solutions to further improve the handling performance of the equipment.

In addition, due to the widespread popularity of emerging information technologies, French machine tool and equipment manufacturers also actively develop machine tool equipment products that can be maintained remotely over the Internet.