In April 2018, the slight growth trend in production reached 105.3 index points, its highest value since the onset of the global economic crisis ten years ago. The growth trend is recorded by the Quest Trend Magazine as a moving annual average.

In May, the growth trend in sales in German mechanical engineering shows a value of 3% per year. This growth trend had already emerged in 2014.

The Quest Trend Magazine analyses the economic development of the machinery industry in regard to three aspects: Identifying of long-term and therefore reliable trends; specification of these trends by their currently effective rates of changes; finally using the official statistics because of their highest possible representation.

The report to production and sales in the German machinery industry is available in German and English on http://www.quest-trendmagazine.com/en/machinery-industry/production-and-sales/production-and-sales-of-machinery-industry.html

Another report reveals that the relatively slight growth trends in production and sales are associated with ever greater fluctuations since the year 2000. The link to this report is http://www.quest-trendmagazine.com/en/machinery-industry/production-and-sales/production-and-sales-of-machinery-industry-since-2000.html

The Quest Trend Magazine has recorded the growth expectations of machine-builders to 2020, analyzed the global export markets of mechanical engineering, the majority of its automation-relevant industries and many aspects of its automation technology at the machines.