{"title":"Machine tools market in Romania","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/ro/426-machine-tools","scope":"Romania","category":{"cpvGroup":"426","label":"Machine tools"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Romania awarded 66 supply contracts for machine tools through award notices on TED; the 62 of them that state a value (93.9%) add up to €18.8 million. Romania imported €802 million of goods in the customs headings matched to machine tools in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 8467, 8466, 8515, 8457, 8462 and 8 more headings; all buyers, not only public ones), down 8% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 106 companies have won 180 public supply contracts for machine tools in Romania, in 129 award notices from 76 public buyers.","92.8% of these awards went to companies registered in Romania; the most frequent foreign origin is Bulgaria.","The five companies that win most often hold 16.1% of all awards.","61.9% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":180,"awardNotices":129,"winningCompanies":106,"publicBuyers":76,"awardsWithValue":162,"awardedValueEur":53529897,"localAwards":167,"foreignAwards":13,"top5Share":0.16111111111111112,"singleBidAwards":109,"awardsWithKnownBids":176,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":6,"awardNotices":6,"awardsWithValue":6,"awardedValueEur":2163824},{"year":2024,"awards":47,"awardNotices":35,"awardsWithValue":43,"awardedValueEur":16294494},{"year":2025,"awards":66,"awardNotices":49,"awardsWithValue":62,"awardedValueEur":18777046},{"year":2026,"awards":61,"awardNotices":39,"awardsWithValue":51,"awardedValueEur":16294533}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"8467","label":"Tools for working in the hand, pneumatic, hydraulic or with self-contained electric or non-electric motor"},{"hs4":"8466","label":"Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of headings 8456 to 8465, incl. work or tool holders, self-opening dieheads, dividing heads and other special attachments for the machines, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"8515","label":"Electric, incl. electrically heated gas, laser or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic, electron beam, magnetic pulse or plasma arc soldering, brazing or welding machines and apparatus, whether or not capable of cutting"},{"hs4":"8457","label":"Machining centres, unit construction machines \"single station\" and multi-station transfer machines for working metal"},{"hs4":"8462","label":"Machine tools, incl. presses, for working metal by forging, hammering or die-stamping"},{"hs4":"8456","label":"Machine tools for working any material by removal of material, by laser or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic, electro-discharge, electro-chemical, electron beam, ionic-beam or plasma arc processes"},{"hs4":"8458","label":"Lathes, incl. turning centres, for removing metal"},{"hs4":"8460","label":"Machine tools for deburring, sharpening, grinding, honing, lapping, polishing or otherwise finishing metal or cermets by means of grinding stones, abrasives or polishing products (excl. gear cutting, gear grinding or gear finishing machines of heading 8461 and machines for working in the hand)"},{"hs4":"8459","label":"Machine tools, incl. way-type unit head machines, for drilling, boring, milling, threading or tapping (excl. lathes and turning centres of heading 8458, gear cutting machines of heading 8461 and hand-operated machines)"},{"hs4":"8464","label":"Machine tools for working stone, ceramics, concrete, asbestos-cement or like mineral materials or for cold-working glass (excl. machines for working in the hand)"},{"hs4":"8461","label":"Machine tools for planing, shaping, slotting, broaching, gear cutting, gear grinding or gear finishing, sawing, cutting-off and other machine tools working by removing metal, sintered metal carbides or cermets, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"8468","label":"Machinery and apparatus for soldering, brazing or welding, whether or not capable of cutting (other than those of heading 8515)"},{"hs4":"8463","label":"Machine tools for working metal, sintered metal carbides or cermets, without removing material (excl. forging, bending, folding, straightening and flattening presses, shearing machines, punching or notching machines, presses and machines for working in the hand)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":871758697},{"year":2024,"valueEur":840363798},{"year":2025,"valueEur":801751095}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Romania — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €47.7 billion in 2025, 12.5% 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":47656000000,"percentOfGdp":12.5,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":28.7,"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, \"Machine tools market in Romania\", https://cresques.com/markets/ro/426-machine-tools, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}