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Industry coverage9 commissioned studies · $27.2B in aggregate coverage

Industrial Machinery & Equipment.

The industrial capex cycle runs on fifteen-year rhythms. We cover construction, mining, agricultural, and specialty machinery, along with hydraulics, drives, and the servitisation of industrial-equipment revenue.

Our view

Thesis on Machinery & Equipment.

The industrial capex cycle runs on fifteen-year rhythms. We cover construction, mining, agricultural, and specialty machinery, along with hydraulics, drives, and the servitisation of industrial-equipment revenue.

Same methodology as every other Meridian verticalCommittee-reviewed before publication
What we research

Sub-sectors of Machinery & Equipment.

Every sub-sector below is commissionable as a standalone 30-chapter study, or scoped bespoke for investment-committee and diligence use.

Construction & Earthmoving

Excavators, loaders, cranes, concrete and asphalt equipment, residential, infrastructure, mining cycles.

Mining & Heavy Equipment

Surface and underground mining, haul trucks, drilling, autonomous and electric migration.

Agricultural Machinery

Tractors, combines, planters; precision upgrade cycles; OEM dealer economics.

Factory Automation

Robotics, motion control, PLCs, vision systems, cobots and integrators.

Material Handling

Forklifts, AGV/AMR, conveyor systems, warehouse-automation capex cycles.

Oil-&-Gas Equipment

Pressure-pumping, drilling equipment, subsea systems, LNG-equipment cycle dynamics.

Interactive · live

A working machinery & equipment dashboard.

Every commissioned machinery & equipment study ships as an interactive dashboard, size and trajectory, ranked share, regional cuts, segmentation. Hover every bar to see the underlying figure; every number is traceable to a named source.

Interactive dashboard · live
Industrial machinery · specimen
MRI · Q2 2026
Overview
2025 size · 2026–2036 forecast · committee-signed
$630B
2019
$644B
2020
$659B
2021
$673B
2022
$689B
2023
$704B
2024
$720B
2025
$866B forecast
2030
$1.08T forecast
2036
Revenue trajectory (historical 2020 – Q2 2026 · forecast 2026–2036)
Headline figures
2025 size
$720B
2036 forecast
$1.08T +4.1% CAGR
Confidence
High
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Strategic themes · this quarter

What is moving in Machinery & Equipment.

The priorities our research committee is tracking across the sector this quarter. Sub-sectors describe structure; themes describe motion. Reports commissioned against these themes ship with the latest signal-read baked in.

01

Electrification of construction machinery

Battery-electric compact equipment reaching cost parity; hydrogen for heavy machines.

02

Mining equipment autonomy rollout

Autonomous haulage adoption rates, operator-labour dynamics, and retrofit vs greenfield economics.

03

Servitisation of industrial capex

Rental, managed-services, and recurring-revenue business models across industrial OEM portfolios.

04

Factory automation reshoring

US and Europe reshoring driving automation capex; integrator-capacity constraints.

05

Data-centre specialty equipment demand

Liquid cooling, power distribution, and HVAC equipment growth from hyperscale buildout.

06

Chinese machinery export challenge

Sany, XCMG and Zoomlion share gain across emerging markets pressuring Caterpillar / Komatsu pricing discipline in Latam, Africa and SE Asia.

07

Rental-company consolidation

United Rentals / Sunbelt / Ashtead M&A cadence driving fleet-mix shifts and a multi-year tailwind on specialty-rental pricing power.

08

Mining-equipment super-cycle

Copper and lithium capex ramp driving fleet renewal at BHP, Rio, Codelco; autonomous-haul retrofit vs greenfield procurement split.

In the library

Commissioned studies.

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Who uses this research

Role-tested in Machinery & Equipment.

The four teams that most commonly commission machinery & equipment research. Each role below maps to a specific use-case the commissioned study is scoped against, from diligence to annual planning.

Corporate Development · Industrial

Specialty-machinery and aftermarket acquisition diligence with cycle-position context.

Private Equity

Industrial-capex cycle timing, rollup economics, and rental-vs-sales business-mix analysis.

Strategic Planning

End-market exposure analysis for diversified industrials and backlog-quality scoring.

Equity Research

Cycle-position and backlog-quality disclosure for industrial-machinery coverage.

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