Japan's industrial machinery orders increased by 10.3% in 2011

According to the report of Japan’s Kyodo News on February 13, the Japan Industrial Machinery Industry Association released statistics on the 13th. In 2011, Japan’s total amount of industrial machinery orders increased by 10.3% over the previous year to reach 5,265.6 billion yen (approximately 427.3 billion yuan). , year-on-year growth for two consecutive years.

The domestic order volume growth of 6.9% was 311,64 billion yen, and the overseas order volume increased by 15.9% to 2,110.1 billion yen.

In domestic orders, orders for manufacturing increased by 7.5% to 1,037.7 billion yen; non-manufacturing increased by 13.8% to 1,286.8 billion yen; and government orders decreased by 6.2% to 553.9 billion yen.

The amount of orders for nine kinds of machinery such as boilers, engines, mining machinery, chemical machinery, and plastic processing machinery increased. Reduced orders for compressors, blowers and metalworking machinery.