Comment on the Present Situation of French Machine Tool

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In France’s machine tool and equipment manufacturing industry, it encountered great difficulties in 2004 and had an improvement later ,but started to stagnate again in 2007. At present, the French machine tool manufacturing industry was significantly lower than the level of early 2000.

China has turned to be the third largest consumer of machine tool products in France

For many years, the machine tool manufacturing industry in France has maintained a structural deficit in foreign trade. The scale of the deficit has been narrowed in recent years, but its overall scale is still impressive . In 2007, the total export volume of machine tool products by French enterprises reached 1.751 billion euros, increase 4.8% over the previous year, with a total amount of 3.305 billion euros and a total deficit of 1.254 billion euros.

At present, France keeps a strong upward trend in sales of machine tool equipment in arealike Asia and the Middle East. China has rapidly risen to become the third largest consumer of machine tool products exported by France and has a very high demand for fully digital controlled high-end complex machine tools exuberant.

At the same time, since 2003, the total amount of machine tool product imports in France has also kept a regular upward trend. Among them, the Western European countries (mainly including Germany, Italy and Switzerland), the United States, China and Japan are the most important suppliers of machine tool products imported by France. However, the import of standardized machine tool products from France rose rapidly .

French machine tool manufacturers turn their manufacturing operations to highly automated products

French machine tool equipment manufacturers have chosen to adjust their main business to a variety of high-tech machine tool products, these companies rely on their mastery of production skills, which can be in this particular sub-product market to maintain a strong Competitiveness. For example, fully automated multi-function machine tool,bench lathe,lathe mill combo products produced by French companies can significantly reduce and simplify different types of operating procedures.