{"title":"Miscellaneous general and special-purpose machinery market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/429-miscellaneous-general-and-special-purpose-machiner","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"429","label":"Miscellaneous general and special-purpose machinery"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 3,204 supply contracts for miscellaneous general and special-purpose machinery through award notices on TED; the 2,419 of them that state a value (75.5%) add up to €1.56 billion. EU countries together imported €40.4 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to miscellaneous general and special-purpose machinery in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 8479, 8422, 8423, 8476, 8420 and 8405; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), up 7.2% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 4,503 companies have won 9,073 public supply contracts for miscellaneous general and special-purpose machinery in 30 European countries, in 5,537 award notices from 2,723 public buyers.","5.9% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Germany.","The five companies that win most often hold 3.5% of all awards across Europe.","35.7% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":9073,"awardNotices":5537,"winningCompanies":4503,"publicBuyers":2723,"awardsWithValue":6450,"awardedValueEur":3852603577,"localAwards":8538,"foreignAwards":535,"top5Share":0.03537969800506999,"singleBidAwards":3005,"awardsWithKnownBids":8407,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":105,"awardNotices":82,"awardsWithValue":57,"awardedValueEur":28979803},{"year":2024,"awards":2174,"awardNotices":1327,"awardsWithValue":1436,"awardedValueEur":872182546},{"year":2025,"awards":3204,"awardNotices":2012,"awardsWithValue":2419,"awardedValueEur":1555439151},{"year":2026,"awards":3590,"awardNotices":2116,"awardsWithValue":2538,"awardedValueEur":1396002077}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"8479","label":"Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter"},{"hs4":"8422","label":"Dishwashing machines"},{"hs4":"8423","label":"Weighing machinery, incl. weight-operated counting or checking machines (excl. balances of a sensitivity of 5 cg or better)"},{"hs4":"8476","label":"Automatic goods-vending machines, e.g. postage stamp, cigarette, food or beverage machines, incl. money-changing machines"},{"hs4":"8420","label":"Calendering or other rolling machines (other than for metals or glass) and cylinders therefor"},{"hs4":"8405","label":"Producer gas or water gas generators, with or without their purifiers"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":37663124944},{"year":2024,"valueEur":38498879413},{"year":2025,"valueEur":40370315674}]},"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, \"Miscellaneous general and special-purpose machinery market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/429-miscellaneous-general-and-special-purpose-machiner, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}