What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| registry/licensing/permits | National business registers, patent offices (EPO/DPMA/WIPO), CE declaration & notified-body records, trade registers | per legal entity / per patent / per certification | public |
| employment & workforce | Eurostat/national statistical offices (SBS), works councils, VDMA member surveys, company annual reports | per enterprise annually; NACE 28.96 aggregates by country | public |
| financial filings | Company registries (Bundesanzeiger, Companies House), listed OEMs' investor relations, credit bureaus (Orbis, Creditreform) | per legal entity annually/quarterly | public |
| incident/safety/claims | EU Safety Gate/RAPEX, national occupational safety authorities (e.g. BAuA, OSHA), machinery liability insurers | per incident / per recall notice | public |
| waste & emissions | OEM plants' environmental reporting (E-PRTR where applicable), ISO 14001 certification bodies, CSRD/sustainability reports | per site annually | public |
| production output | National statistical offices (PRODCOM), VDMA and Euromap industry associations, individual OEM plants | per PRODCOM product code annually by country; per plant per month internally | public |
| pricing | Machine builders' quotation systems, distributors, used-machinery marketplaces (Exapro, Machinio, Surplex), auction houses | per machine model / per listing | purchasable |
| logistics & freight movement | Customs authorities (Eurostat Comext, UN Comtrade), freight forwarders, shipping-manifest brokers (Panjiva, ImportGenius) | per HS code (8477/8420) per country-pair monthly; per bill of lading | purchasable |
| customer demographics | OEM CRM segmentation of processors by end-market (packaging, automotive, medical), region and machine size; market research firms… | per customer account; aggregated market segment reports | purchasable |
| transactional/sales | OEMs of injection moulding/extrusion/blow moulding machinery (e.g. Engel, Arburg, KraussMaffei, Wittmann, Coperion, Reifenhäuser), their… | per order / per machine serial, aggregated to quarterly order intake by region | partnership |
| inventory & supply chain | OEM ERP systems, component suppliers (hydraulics, drives, screws/barrels, control systems from Siemens/B&R/Beckhoff), spare-parts… | per SKU per plant, weekly/monthly | partnership |
| energy consumption | OEM test-bench and datasheet energy figures (Euromap 60 energy efficiency classification), processors benchmarking machine kWh/kg | per machine model / per production cycle | partnership |
| communications/marketing performance | OEM marketing departments, trade-fair organisers (K Fair/Messe Düsseldorf, Chinaplas, NPE) with lead and visitor data, trade media… | per campaign / per event per exhibitor | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Notified bodies and test houses (TÜV, DEKRA), OEM factory acceptance test records, customer FAT/SAT documentation, machinery-safety… | per machine / per test report | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | OEM remote-monitoring platforms for installed base (e.g. Engel e-connect, Arburg ALS/arburgXworld, Wittmann TEMI), plastics processors'… | per machine per cycle / per second, streamed | exclusive |
| maintenance & asset condition | OEM service organisations (service tickets, spare-part consumption, warranty claims), third-party service firms | per machine serial per service event | exclusive |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.