CECIMO is the European Association of the Machine Tool Industries and related Manufacturing Technologies. We bring together 15 national associations of machine tool builders, which represent approximately 1500 industrial enterprises in Europe (EU + UK+ EFTA + Turkey), over 80% of which are SMEs. CECIMO covers 98% of the total machine tool production in Europe and about 33% worldwide. It accounts for approximately 150,000 employees and a turnover of around 22.5 billion euros in 2021. More than three quarters of CECIMO production is shipped abroad, whereas half of it is exported outside Europe.