The first collection of CEMA Positions on European legislative challenges for the agricultural machinery industry

CEMA is preparing a dedicated webpage on its CEMA website for whole body vibrations. This would support industry willing to provide more information to their customers, by referring to this webpage using the address: www.cema-wbv.eu

Dear CEMA colleagues and friends, I’d like to warmly thank all of you who attended our common summit with CECE in Brussels, last October 14th-16th. This venue was a real momentum for our industry. All key-players showed commitment and interest. We had great presentations both on economic and technical matters.

The General Assembly of CEMA on 16 October 2009 elected a new Board and Presidency for the upcoming two years. Following Federico Corradini, whose term as first President of the new CEMA ended after two years, Gilles Dryancour was elected President of CEMA.

The July results of the CEMA Business Barometer indicate that the crisis in the agricultural machinery industry has not yet reached the bottom. The domestic order intake of 37% of all participants in June was 20% or more below the past year, orders from foreign markets were 20% and more down for almost every second manufacturers. Especially French manufacturers reported heavy slumps in orders from their home market.

The first collection of CEMA Positions on European legislative challenges for the agricultural machinery industry

The monthly CEMA Barometer in November 09 for the first time since 6 months showed an upward movement. The index, which sums up industry’s evaluation of the current situation and the turnover expectations for the next 6 months, increased by 8 points to -61.

On October 15th to 16th, the biannual CECE-CEMA Summit took place at the Hotel Hilton Brussels. Here you find the presentations made during the event by the different speakers. Presentations are available for all participants. To receive your password please email: info@cema-agri.org

Dear members and friends of CEMA, We have just entered 2010. Most likely, the economic crisis will not be fully over in the coming months. However, we can sense that we do have excellent opportunities for returning to growth. Food security and climate change are becoming global concerns. Obviously, these two very challenges engage human kind's future. Since, through precision farming and innovative technical solutions our industry will contribute to feed the world and protect the environment.

Dear members and friends of CEMA, We have just entered 2010. Most likely, the economic crisis will not be fully over in the coming months. However, we can sense that we do have excellent opportunities for returning to growth. Food security and climate change are becoming global concerns. Obviously, these two very challenges engage human kind's future. Since, through precision farming and innovative technical solutions our industry will contribute to feed the world and protect the environment.

Following the first event in Rome in 2008 delegations of the agricultural equipment industry associations of 14 countries worldwide gathered in Orlando Florida in January 2010. The participants, also including representatives of the United Nations organizations FAO and UNIDO, discussed market developments and trends for agricultural equipment in the different regions of the world.

In Belgium, between 1 January 2003 and 31 December 2007, 1.424 accidents happened in which at least one tractor was involved. Those figures were reported by the Belgian government. These accidents resulted in 68 people being killed, 388 people getting heavily injured and 1494 people getting slightly injured.

On 27 January 2010, CEMA and CECE discussed the CO2 issue. Will there be any limits?

On 27 January 2010, CEMA and CECE discussed the CO2 issue. Will there be any limits?

Biogenic energy sources reveal great future potentials for agriculture and agricultural machinery says Christoph Götz from VDMA Agricultural Machinery in the following guest article.

Biogenic energy sources reveal great future potentials for agriculture and agricultural machinery says Christoph Götz from VDMA Agricultural Machinery in the following guest article.

The prices for major agricultural commodities showed a mixed picture in December 2009 according to the European Commission.

VDMA recently published the turnover figures of the German industry for 2009. Following 5 consecutive years of growth the turnover dropped by 25% to 5.6 bill Euro. Following a rather stable 1st quarter of 2009, caused by order backlogs, the situation worsen throughout the year with -38% in the 2nd half of the year.

In total approximately 30 harmonized agricultural machinery standards have been adapted to the new Machinery Directive. It was decided not to change the technical content but put in annex the list of requirements from the Machinery Directive that have been fulfilled.

The call will be launched on 15 April 2010 and more information and guidelines can be found on www.ict-agri.eu. See also attached invitation.

WGAT stands for ‘working Group - Agricultural Tractors’.