Rubber & tire machinery makers record solid growth performance

London – The ERJ Tire & Rubber Machinery Survey 2025 reveals robust sales growth among tire and rubber processing equipment manufacturers worldwide

While not matching their performance of last year, respondents to the ERJ Tire & Rubber Machinery Survey 2025 registered continued strong growth in tire & rubber machinery markets worldwide.

Total sales among respondents replying to the survey both this year and last came in at $3,735 million: a year-on-year increase of 14.1%, compared to the 18.6% gain recorded in 2024.

The slower growth clearly reflects the increasing challenges linked to global geopolitical and trade tensions, such as the crises in the Middle East, Red Sea and Russia’s continuing war on Ukraine.

These negative impacts, of course, were evident even before the global economic uncertainty created by US trade policies and Washington’s imposition of tariffs on imports from countries worldwide – particularly China.

It will be interesting to see how this situation develops, especially as China was the main driver for growth in the global tire & rubber machinery market in 2024.

In this year’s survey, sales among the 10 largest Chinese-based manufacturers totalled $1,789 million, representing a 19.8% increase on the level recorded by the same suppliers in our 2024 survey – the figures based on data provided by the Chinese Rubber Machinery Manufacturers Association (CRMA).

By contrast, an equivalent set of respondents based in Europe, including Turkey reported an 11.9% year-on-year growth in sales to $1,529 million.

In a similar analysis within last year’s survey, European-based companies registered a 22.0% overall increase.

This likely reflects the higher exposure of the EU region to the impact of global geopolitical events, not least on energy costs and inflation – as well as tire industry consolidation.

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