{"title":"Machinery for textile, apparel and leather production market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/427-machinery-for-textile-apparel-and-leather-producti","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","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 30 European countries awarded 213 supply contracts for machinery for textile, apparel and leather production through award notices on TED; the 138 of them that state a value (64.8%) add up to €29.9 million. EU countries together imported €2.1 billion 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; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), down 19.7% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 318 companies have won 576 public supply contracts for machinery for textile, apparel and leather production in 30 European countries, in 337 award notices from 271 public buyers.","3.5% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Denmark.","The five companies that win most often hold 18.1% of all awards across Europe.","34.2% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":576,"awardNotices":337,"winningCompanies":318,"publicBuyers":271,"awardsWithValue":327,"awardedValueEur":93073411,"localAwards":556,"foreignAwards":20,"top5Share":0.18055555555555555,"singleBidAwards":168,"awardsWithKnownBids":491,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":12,"awardNotices":11,"awardsWithValue":8,"awardedValueEur":3302102},{"year":2024,"awards":179,"awardNotices":104,"awardsWithValue":85,"awardedValueEur":30270017},{"year":2025,"awards":213,"awardNotices":121,"awardsWithValue":138,"awardedValueEur":29894699},{"year":2026,"awards":172,"awardNotices":101,"awardsWithValue":96,"awardedValueEur":29606593}]},"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":2616376418},{"year":2024,"valueEur":2180056193},{"year":2025,"valueEur":2101878179}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in the EU-27 — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €2.93 trillion in 2025, 15.5% 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":2926602000000,"percentOfGdp":15.5,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":31.3,"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 Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/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."}