Thursday, January 30, 2025

VDMA: Germany's robotics industry 'has lost competitiveness'

Bad news! Germany ranks only fifth after South Korea in installed industrial robots.

"... VDMA R+A said these structural weaknesses were evident in 2024. It pointed to a 16% decrease domestically compared with 2023. ...

The only bright spot for the German robotics and automation industry was exports to the eurozone, with incoming orders rising by an impressive 44% in 2024, noted VDMA. ...

In June 2024, the VDMA warned that growing competition from China was weighing on its own robotics ecosystem. “Many Chinese suppliers have grown strongly in their home markets and are now pushing into Europe,” ...

“With a view to fierce global competition, Germany can no longer afford disadvantages such as disproportionate regulation and excessive costs,” ...

Germany isn’t the only country to see its leading robotics industry see a slowdown. China, the world’s largest industrial robotics market for 10-plus years, expected its industrial robot sales to decline for the first time in five years in 2024."

VDMA: Germany's robotics industry 'has lost competitiveness'









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