Mechanical and Plant Engineering

High-performance region with tradition and a future

There are many reasons why mechanical and plant engineering is the largest and most important industry industry in Saxony-Anhalt. 150 years of experience make their mark. Once a centre of heavy engineering, now providing top-class high-tech production. You too can use the strengths of our state, where Otto von Guericke and Hermann Gruson found success.


Our industry: Investments in Mechanical and Plant Engineering

  • Around 12,300 employees in around 170 companies (predominantly SME)
  • Machinery and equipment made in Saxony-Anhalt is sought-after worldwide: almost 40 % of all sales are made abroad
  • Top-class industrial SMEs, focuses:
    - Precision engineering and machine tool building
    - Rotation processing
    - Metallic materials
    - Light metal casting (especially aluminium die casting)
    - Powder metallurgy
    - Assembly and joining technology
  • Specialist areas of innovative suppliers experiencing strong growth:
    - Mechatronics
    - Components and equipment for the photovoltaics and wind power industries
    - Special purpose machinery for high-precision manufacturing processes
    - Machine tools
    - Lifting devices and conveyors
    - Pumps and compressors
  • Names: ENERCON GmbH, SKET Maschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH, FAM Magdeburger Förderanlagen und Baumaschinen GmbH, MAP Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH, Laempe & Mössner GmbH, G.M.W. Präzisions GmbH & Co. KG and many more


Our advantages

  • Saxony-Anhalt:The region for sustainable profit (10 reasons to choose Saxony-Anhalt)
  • Core competency in high-tech production at the highest technical and technological level
  • Research landscape close to mechanical engineering – a strong basis for the challenges you face today and tomorrow
    - Virtualisation of products and processes, strategic product planning
    - individual, tailor-made, production-integrated solutions and complete solutions
    (including Virtual Development and Training Centre,www.vdtc.de)
    Produktentwicklungs- und Innovationszentrum für integrierte Fertigungszellen der Rotationsbearbeitung (PIZ IF ROTA: a technology centre for the development of innovative process technologies for high-precision processing of turned part ranges)