This growth trend has replaced a five-year stagnation phase. If this stagnation phase is taken into account, mechanical engineering production has grown by 0.6% per year since 2012.
The current value of the production index is 104,1 index points, 2 points below the one-year average with 106,2 index points.
In May 2019, the growth trend in sales in mechanical engineering, which began in February 2014, reached a new high of €20.9bn since the outbreak of the global economic crisis in 2008. This growth trend is 3.0% per annum.
The report about production and sales in German machinery industry is available on https://www.quest-trendmagazine.com/en/machinery-industry/production-and-sales/production-and-sales-of-machinery-industry.html
Another report quantifies the increasing fluctuation ranges of production and sales since the world economic crisis. The link to this report is https://www.quest-trendmagazine.com/en/machinery-industry/production-and-sales/production-and-sales-of-machinery-industry-since-2000.html
The Quest Trend Magazine analyses the growth expectations to 2020 of machine-builders, the worldwide export markets of machinery industry, the majority of its automation-relevant sectors and many aspects of its automation technology at the machines.