{"title":"Machinery for textile, apparel and leather production market in Germany","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/de/427-machinery-for-textile-apparel-and-leather-producti","scope":"Germany","category":{"cpvGroup":"427","label":"Machinery for textile, apparel and leather production"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Germany awarded 5 supply contracts for machinery for textile, apparel and leather production through award notices on TED; the 2 of them that state a value (40%) add up to €660,356, a floor rather than the full contract value. Germany imported €670 million of goods in the customs headings matched to machinery for textile, apparel and leather production in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 8448, 8452, 8447, 8445, 8449 and 2 more headings; all buyers, not only public ones), down 17.9% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 33 companies have won 40 public supply contracts for machinery for textile, apparel and leather production in Germany, in 32 award notices from 23 public buyers.","92.5% of these awards went to companies registered in Germany; the most frequent foreign origin is Netherlands.","The five companies that win most often hold 30% of all awards.","42.5% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":40,"awardNotices":32,"winningCompanies":33,"publicBuyers":23,"awardsWithValue":8,"awardedValueEur":1821200,"localAwards":37,"foreignAwards":3,"top5Share":0.3,"singleBidAwards":17,"awardsWithKnownBids":40,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":3,"awardNotices":2,"awardsWithValue":0,"awardedValueEur":0},{"year":2024,"awards":14,"awardNotices":13,"awardsWithValue":1,"awardedValueEur":175000},{"year":2025,"awards":5,"awardNotices":5,"awardsWithValue":2,"awardedValueEur":660356},{"year":2026,"awards":18,"awardNotices":12,"awardsWithValue":5,"awardedValueEur":985844}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"8448","label":"Auxiliary machinery for use with machines of heading 8444, 8445, 8446 or 8447, e.g. dobbies, jacquards, automatic stop motions, shuttle changing mechanisms"},{"hs4":"8452","label":"Sewing machines (other than book-sewing machines of heading 8440)"},{"hs4":"8447","label":"Knitting machines, stitch-bonding machines and machines for making gimped yarn, tulle, lace, embroidery, trimmings, braid or net and machines for tufting (excl. hem-stitching machines)"},{"hs4":"8445","label":"Machines for preparing textile fibres"},{"hs4":"8449","label":"Machinery for the manufacture or finishing of felt or nonwovens in the piece or in shapes, incl. machinery for making felt hats"},{"hs4":"8446","label":"Weaving machines \"looms\""},{"hs4":"8444","label":"Machines for extruding, drawing, texturing or cutting man-made textile materials"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":815903120},{"year":2024,"valueEur":661952389},{"year":2025,"valueEur":669635362}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Germany — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €864 billion in 2025, 19.1% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":863609000000,"percentOfGdp":19.1,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":38,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Machinery for textile, apparel and leather production market in Germany\", https://cresques.com/markets/de/427-machinery-for-textile-apparel-and-leather-producti, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}