Notes from the Floor

German machine-tool orders up 14%, production down 7%: what VDW's half-year figures do to your delivery date before AMB and IMTS

VDW's own H1 2026 ledger: orders +14%, production −7%, forming −20%, utilisation 74%, and 52.6% of the German market now imported, mostly Japanese and Korean. Read from the shop floor, a week before AMB Stuttgart and IMTS Chicago open.