Updated Feb. 8, 2026. The industrial machinery market is constantly growing. Between 2000 and 2014, global production value of machine tools more than doubled from under $40 billion to over $80 billion. Since then, the market continued to expand, reaching 91 billion in 2025. And the market is becoming more and more international. As in other industries, Asia has become […]
Updated Feb. 8, 2026. The Japanese chemical industry is the country’s second largest manufacturing industry behind transportation machinery. In its broader definition, which also includes plastic and rubber products, it made up over 14 percent of all output value in Japanese manufacturing. With around 930,000 people, it employs around 10-11 percent of Japan’s manufacturing-related workforce. Transportation machinery includes Japan’s most […]
