Editing Machine tool (section)

== Machine tool manufacturing industry ==
{{see also|Machine tool builder}}
The worldwide market for machine tools was approximately $81 billion in production in 2014 according to a survey by market research firm Gardner Research.<ref name="gardner">{{cite web|title=2015 World Machine-Tool Output and Consumption Survey|url=https://www.gardnerweb.com/cdn/cms/GR-2015-WMTS.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921224058/https://www.gardnerweb.com/cdn/cms/GR-2015-WMTS.pdf|archive-date=2015-09-21|website=Gardner Business Media, Inc.}}</ref> The largest producer of machine tools was China with $23.8 billion of production followed by Germany and Japan at neck and neck with $12.9 billion and $12.88 billion respectively.<ref name="gardner"/> South Korea and Italy rounded out the top 5 producers with revenue of $5.6 billion and $5 billion respectively.<ref name="gardner"/>
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