EMO Hannover meets Indonesia
The growth market in Asia is of vital importance for the international machine tool industry. For the Team of the EMO Hannover, a good reason to promote the world's leading trade fair for metal processing in the Asian region in September 2017. With success, as yesterday's press conference in Jakarta, Indonesia proves. Numerous journalists and experts from the industry were able to get informations about the 2017 trade fair, thus showing a broad interest in the EMO Hannover 2017. Mr. Aming, general manager of the Indonesian company JMT, participated in the event. JMT imports machinery and tools from Germany to Indonesia and various industrial sectors, mainly from the automotive and agricultural sectors.
Indonesia’s industrial sector needs substantial investments
Indonesia, as a country rich in raw materials, is currently struggling with low prices on the global market for fuels and metals. Nonetheless, Oxford Economics is predicting economic growth of 5 per cent for 2016, and 5.2 per cent for 2017, driven primarily by private consumption. For Indonesia itself, this is below the figure for potential growth, which experts quantify at 7 per cent. Compared to other raw material exporting nations like Brazil or Russia, however, the country is in excellent shape.
In order to stimulate growth, the Indonesian government is prioritising infrastructural upgrades. In addition, the country’s industrial sector urgently needs to be modernised and expanded. Neither can the automotive industry and its component suppliers procure intermediate products from the domestic market, nor is Indonesia itself producing performatively capable machines. Which is why the country imports almost 100 per cent of the production technology it needs.
In the world rankings for machine tool importers, Indonesia comes 21st, with imports totalling 537 million euros in 2015, corresponding to a fall of 30 per cent. The most important vendor nations are Japan, China, Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore. Germany follows with a share of two per cent.
In 2015, machines worth 16.4 million euros were delivered, primarily lathes. In the first three quarters of 2016, German deliveries increased by 173 per cent. Orders from Indonesia for German machine tools rose by almost 170 per cent in the same period.
“Indonesia is accordingly set for a new cycle of investments. Machine tool consumption is expected to increase by 5.1 per cent in the ongoing year. This is why the manufacturers need comprehensive information on new solutions for their production operations,” says Christoph Miller of the VDW. Exhibitors at the EMO Hannover 2017 will include representatives from all important vendor nations for Indonesia’s industrial sector. Machine tool manufacturers from more than 40 different countries will there be spotlighting their production technology, ranging from simple, sturdy and affordable to high-priced high-tech. Both stand-alone machines and concatenated systems will be on show,plus transfer lines and large machines, featuring a high degree of automation. “The EMO Hannover is the ideal platform not only for big investors,” is Christoph Miller’s explicit message to Indonesian trade visitors. “We are particularly keen to encourage mid-tier users of machine tools to find out in detail what the world of metalworking has to offer.”
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Christoph Miller (photo center), Head of the trade fair department from the German Machine Tool Builders’ Association (VDW), with Mr. Aming (left), general manager of the Indonesian company JMT and his colleague Djunaidi Herman Hendro (right). Both were visitors to the EMO Hanover 4 years ago and are enthusiastic about the size and diversity at the world leading trade fair for metal processing.
Photo: VDW