{"title":"Mineral-processing and foundry mould-forming machinery market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/434-mineral-processing-and-foundry-mould-forming-machi","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"434","label":"Mineral-processing and foundry mould-forming machinery"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 167 supply contracts for mineral-processing and foundry mould-forming machinery through award notices on TED; the 162 of them that state a value (97%) add up to €71.9 million. EU countries together imported €3.69 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to mineral-processing and foundry mould-forming machinery in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 8474; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), down 1.9% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 234 companies have won 478 public supply contracts for mineral-processing and foundry mould-forming machinery in 30 European countries, in 414 award notices from 253 public buyers.","5.6% 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 12.6% of all awards across Europe.","54.3% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":478,"awardNotices":414,"winningCompanies":234,"publicBuyers":253,"awardsWithValue":456,"awardedValueEur":245527016,"localAwards":451,"foreignAwards":27,"top5Share":0.12552301255230125,"singleBidAwards":233,"awardsWithKnownBids":429,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":8,"awardNotices":5,"awardsWithValue":8,"awardedValueEur":1783159},{"year":2024,"awards":94,"awardNotices":82,"awardsWithValue":80,"awardedValueEur":44080545},{"year":2025,"awards":167,"awardNotices":140,"awardsWithValue":162,"awardedValueEur":71883790},{"year":2026,"awards":209,"awardNotices":187,"awardsWithValue":206,"awardedValueEur":127779522}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"8474","label":"Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding, mixing or kneading earth, stone, ores or other mineral substances, in solid, incl. powder or paste, form"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":3762107684},{"year":2024,"valueEur":3375931841},{"year":2025,"valueEur":3690251331}]},"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, \"Mineral-processing and foundry mould-forming machinery market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/434-mineral-processing-and-foundry-mould-forming-machi, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}