Different types of milling cutters can be used to cut large amounts of material and leave poor surface smoothness (roughing) or to remove smaller amounts of material but leave good surface smoothness (finishing).
Germany is the second-largest producer of machine tools in the world, after China. Advanced German machine tool technology has led the development of the machine tool market.
In the face of the epidemic, material shortages, lack of manpower, port congestion, and soaring shipping costs, market demand and the structure of the global supply chain has changed.
The manufacturing industry occupies an important position in the British economy. Although the UK has declined in industrial scale, it still has some of the world’s top companies in steel, pharmaceuticals, biological breeding, aerospace, machinery, microelectronics, military, and environmental sciences, etc. All aspects are among the best in the world.
South Korea is the world's sixth-largest machine tool producer and the world's fifth-largest machine tool consumer, with an average consumption of approximately US$4.33 billion. Among them, nearly 70% of the consumer market's demand is for products provided by local machine tool factories, and only close to 30% of the products must be imported from abroad.
In recent years, Turkey has become a highly anticipated newly industrialized country with its brilliant GDP growth rate. It has also become Taiwan's third-largest export market for machine tools for many years.
Looking back at the continuous fluctuations in global economic and trade conditions in 2019, the global economy is in a high degree of uncertainty, and the overall output value of Taiwan's machine tool industry in 2019 will be affected.
Japan is one of the leading countries in the machinery industry, with superb machinery manufacturing technology, and the output value of the machinery industry accounts for about half of Japan's overall manufacturing industry.
Affected by the two major economies of the United States and China, global trade trends have subsided, and the Asian economy has also suffered greatly.
The world's major exporters of machine tools are concentrated in Asia, the European Union and North America. In 2019, the German machine tool market ranked Germany as the world's largest exporter. In 2019, the export of machine tools was 9.17 billion US dollars.
With the implementation of the import substitution policy in Russia, the output of machine tools has increased, and the replacement of equipment has become one of the priority projects of Russia's "development strategy for the machine tool industry before 2030", which will inject huge business opportunities for the Russian machine tool industry.