2020-09-24
Overall, the global sales of construction machinery and equipment are on the rise, especially in 2018-2019, when the industry reached a peak of over 1.1 million units. According to OffHighway Research, the number will drop to 891,000 in 2020, a 19% year-on-year drop, due to the impact of coVID-19.
According to YellowTables, the world's TOP50 construction equipment makers will have sales of $197.251 billion in 2020, up 3.27 percent from a year earlier, which has been growing for several years but at a slower pace. In terms of profits, the total operating profit of the global TOP50 construction machinery manufacturers was $22.03 billion in 2020, slightly down from the same period of the last year.