German machinery manufacturers decry Chinese competitors’ advantages
17 July 2026
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German machinery manufacturers have called on the European Union to do more to level the playing field against their Chinese competitors.
The VDMA, a German association of 3,600 European mechanical and plant engineering companies, including construction equipment firms, warned that global competition with Chinese rivals is “increasingly fierce” across the whole mechanical and plant engineering sector.
It argued that while Chinese companies have become technologically stronger, they also “benefit significantly from…
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