{"title":"Machinery for paper or paperboard production market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/428-machinery-for-paper-or-paperboard-production","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"428","label":"Machinery for paper or paperboard production"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 1 supply contracts for machinery for paper or paperboard production through award notices on TED; the 1 of them that state a value (100%) add up to €655,735. EU countries together imported €3.66 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to machinery for paper or paperboard production in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 8441 and 8439; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), down 9% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 4 companies have won 4 public supply contracts for machinery for paper or paperboard production in 30 European countries, in 4 award notices from 4 public buyers.","50% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Austria.","The five companies that win most often hold 100% of all awards across Europe.","66.7% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":4,"awardNotices":4,"winningCompanies":4,"publicBuyers":4,"awardsWithValue":3,"awardedValueEur":1545235,"localAwards":2,"foreignAwards":2,"top5Share":1,"singleBidAwards":2,"awardsWithKnownBids":3,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":3,"awardNotices":3,"awardsWithValue":2,"awardedValueEur":889500},{"year":2025,"awards":1,"awardNotices":1,"awardsWithValue":1,"awardedValueEur":655735}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"8441","label":"Machinery for making up paper pulp, paper or paperboard, incl. cutting machines of all kinds, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"8439","label":"Machinery for making pulp of fibrous cellulosic material or for making or finishing paper or paperboard (excl. autoclaves, boilers, dryers, other heating appliances and calenders)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":4025178908},{"year":2024,"valueEur":3616151205},{"year":2025,"valueEur":3663219584}]},"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 paper or paperboard production market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/428-machinery-for-paper-or-paperboard-production, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}