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Euro zone accounting for significant proportion of machine tool orders at present
Euro zone accounting for significant proportion of machine tool...
Euro zone accounting for significant proportion of machine tool orders at present

Orders received by the German machine tool industry in the second quarter of 2023 were 3 per cent down in nominal terms on the same period last year. Orders from Germany declined by 11 percent whereas those from abroad rose by 1 per cent. The level of orders fell by 7 percent overall in the first ha...
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India is booming – EMO Hannover 2023 to highlight promising business opportunities
India is booming – EMO Hannover 2023 to highlight...
India is booming – EMO Hannover 2023 to highlight promising business opportunities

India is now the most populous country on Earth with more than 1.4 billion inhabitants. It is also the largest democracy and has the fifth largest economy. And the economy is growing fast. The British economic research institute Oxford Economics is forecasting growth rates of around 7 percent per ye...
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“There’s much more to climate-neutral production than just offsetting.” – Let’s Talk Science shows technical solutions
“There’s much more to climate-neutral production than just offsetting.”...
“There’s much more to climate-neutral production than just offsetting.” – Let’s Talk Science shows...

Following all the excitement surrounding the Building Energy Act, the ambitious climate targets almost seem to have been forgotten. It is not merely a matter of making individual adjustments, rather of putting the economy and society as a whole on a climate neutral footing. Industrial processes, whi...
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Dr. Markus Heering - VDW

Realignment on the trade fair market for production engineering
Realignment on the trade fair market for production engineering
Realignment on the trade fair market for production engineering

New responsibility for NORTEC: Messe Stuttgart and the VDW (German Machine Tool Builders' Association), Frankfurt am Main, are jointly assuming responsibility for the established event for production engineering in Hamburg. The final discussions with the previous organizer, i.e. Hamburg Messe und Co...
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Machine tool industry attracting attention at VDW symposium in Vietnam
Machine tool industry attracting attention at VDW symposium in...
Machine tool industry attracting attention at VDW symposium in Vietnam

Among the ASEAN countries, Vietnam has become an attractive industrial location and an important trading hub with a growing interest in industrial production. The country is expanding its domestic production in order to manufacture higher-quality products, reduce costs and at the same time protect i...
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