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nanotimes
10-02 :: February 2010
Reports
IVAM Research:
Effects of Economic Crisis Expected to Abate in 2010
2010

http://www.ivam-research.de/en/index.php?content=studien_details&id=15
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conomic survey of the IVAM Microtechnology only one tenth of the companies (10%) had expected
Network confirms losses in turnover, lower cutbacks on such a big scale for 2009. The percen-
export shares and funding gaps. Diversification and tage of companies that were able to report a turnover
new products are now in demand. The impact of increasing more than 10%, however, has fallen from
the ongoing economic crisis on the microtechnology, 30% in 2008 to only just 12% in 2009.
nanotechnology and advanced materials industries
is expected to be less noticeable in 2010 than in the Other areas, next to the annual turnover, in which
previous business year. business significantly decreased during 2009, are the
numbers of orders and the production volumes.
The expectations for 2010 prove that the industry
has not lost its optimism. In the second half of 2009, More than three quarters (76%) of the companies
“excellent business” has been reported by individual report a decrease in orders for the year 2009, 63%
companies. Due to an increasing demand from the cut back their production. Still, more than half of
semiconductor sector, some companies have direct- the companies (54%) have been able to keep staff
ly changed over from short-time work to weekend numbers steady. Especially in Germany, it seems
shifts. that the possibility to work short time has helped to
avoid too many redundancies. In total, the Europe-
In total, the European microtechnology, nano- an microtechnology, nanotechnology and advanced
technology and advanced materials companies materials industry employed 310,000 people at the
achieved a turnover of just under EUR44 billion in end of 2009.
2009. According to the industry, sales in 2009 clearly
went down, much more so than in the previous year,
2008. More than one quarter (27%) of the compa- During 2009, financing remained stable for 46% of
nies reported a turnover decreasing more than 10% - the companies. But it is a striking fact that none of
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