Publish Date: September 2026
Updated Tariff & Recession Risk Analysis and Forecasts
The Metal-Forming Machine Manufacturing Market Report covers the $3.6 billion industry which produces equipment enabling bending, rolling, stretching, and other deformation processes across diverse manufacturing sectors. Competitive structure features European precision machinery manufacturers alongside North American and Asian producers addressing various market segments. Market demands increasingly emphasize precision, forming flexibility supporting diverse part geometries, quick-change capabilities supporting smaller production runs, and increasingly digital controls enhancing programming and monitoring. Manufacturers face challenges balancing engineering sophistication with price competitiveness, aftermarket service development, international competition, and tariff considerations affecting both component sourcing and market access. Industry leaders differentiate through advanced engineering optimizing forming precision and productivity, specialized features addressing application-specific requirements, comprehensive service capabilities ensuring equipment uptime, and increasingly simulation capabilities supporting tool development in a sector where technical performance and reliability directly impact customer loyalty.
Metal-Forming Machine Manufacturing Industry Definition
Metal-Forming Machine Manufacturing produces equipment that shapes metal through bending, pressing, drawing, forging, and other deformation processes without removing material. Companies design and build machinery that applies controlled force to transform metal sheets, plates, and billets into specific shapes. Manufacturing processes include heavy fabrication, hydraulic system development, precision guide manufacturing, control system integration, tooling installation, and calibration for consistent forming operations. These businesses create capital equipment essential for efficient manufacturing of formed metal components. The industry continuously improves forming precision, automation capabilities, quick-changeover features, and energy efficiency while developing enhanced control systems, improved die technologies, and process monitoring capabilities that enable more complex forming operations with improved quality and consistency.
NAICS Code: 333519
Total # of Companies: 329
Total # of Factories / Facilities: 333
Industry Employees: 13,285
Market Size: $3.6 billion
TARIFF IMPACT (Summer 2025 – Download Report for Updated Analysis)
This report has in-depth analysis on the recent US tariff changes on material costs, quantifying import dependencies, tariff exposure rates, and key source countries for the metal-forming machine manufacturing sector.
Estimated Tariff Cost: $200 million
Relative Tariff Impact: VERY HIGH
Metal-Forming Machine Manufacturing Report Format
The 2026 U.S. Metal-Forming Machine Manufacturing Market Report is 63 pages of deep insights into the trends, dynamics, and forecasts shaping the industry. Professionals leverage this market report to develop a deep understanding of the market for business strategy, planning, forecasting, benchmarking, industry analysis, valuations, identifying organizational inefficiencies, financial analysis, and more.
This report covers more than 100 statistical data sets with historical trend data from 2017 to 2025, and 2026 and 2030 forecasts. The report includes market size & growth, 26 expense categories, extensive financial analysis, extensive forecasts, plant inventory analysis, 31 balance sheet benchmarks, segmentation by business size and structure, industry concentration analysis, material costs analysis, profitability metrics, state metrics analysis, plant productivity benchmarks, employee role analysis, inflation statistics, wage analysis, in-depth productivity analysis, and numerous other data sets.
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Report Table of Contents
Explore the below table of contents to understand the extensive statistical data sets in this report and why thousands of executives, consultants, bankers, accountants, and other professionals trust Kentley Insights for their market research needs.
The data source for the report is extensive annual expense, revenue, wage, operational, and economic surveys administered by federal and private institutions and filled out by a majority of companies in the metal-forming machine manufacturing industry. Our forecasts take into account historical trends, industry dynamics, and our macroeconomic projections.
1-2 – Market Report Overview & Contents
3 – Market Overview
– Data Sources & Methodology
– Sector Definition & Examples
– Market Commentary
4 – Report Synopsis – Revenue & Growth
5 – Report Synopsis – Costs & Profitability
SECTION ONE
REVENUE & GROWTH
7 – Market Size Details
– Industry Revenues, Companies, & Facilities
– Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
8 – Growth Benchmarks
– Sales per Company and Plant
– Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
9 – Product Lines Revenue
10 – BCG Matrix – Income vs. Revenue Growth
11 – Total Industry Sales by Month & Year (2021-2025)
12 – Inventory Value by Month & Year (2021-2025)
13 – Months of Inventory (2021-2025)
14 – Sector Revenue by Segments
– Business Concentration, Size, & Structure
15 – Market Size by State
– Market Size and Rankings
16 – Market Size as a % of State GDP
17 – Sales as a % of State Manufacturing
18 – Market Segmentation by Business Size
19 – Market Segmentation by Business Size
– Business Size Segments – 1-4, 5-9, 10-20, 21-50, 51-100, 101-250, & 250+ employees
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
20 – Segmentation by Concentration (Top 50 Companies)
– Concentration Segments – Top 4, 5-8, 9-20, & 21-50 companies
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
21 – Market Share of Top 50 Companies
22 – Subsector Market Share of Top 50 Companies
23 – Segmentation by Business Structure
– Business Structure Segments – C-Corporations, S-Corporations, Partnerships, & Sole Proprietorships
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
24 – Revenue per Company by State
25 – Revenue per Company by Segments
26 – Revenue per Facility by State
27 – Revenue per Facility by Segment
28 – Subsector Market Size & Growth
29 – Subsector Sales per Company & Plant
30 – 5-Year Consolidation Analysis
31 – Employment Consolidation Analysis
32 – Subsector Consolidation Analysis
– Number of Companies & Facilities
33 – Subsector Consolidation Analysis
– Facilities & Employees per Company
COST, CAPITAL & FINANCIALS
35 – Profitability & Financial Ratio Analysis
Page 36 – Balance Sheet Metrics
– Assets and Liabilities indexed to industry revenue at 100
– 16 Current & Non-Current Assets Categories
– 15 Short-term, Long-term Liabilities, & Net Worth
37 – OPEX
– Industry OPEX Analysis
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
38 – OPEX by Company & Plant
– OPEX per Company & Plant
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
Page 39 – OPEX Detail
– 6 Employee Expense Categories
– 8 Cost of Material Categories
– 6 Buildings and Equipment Categories
– 8 Other Operating Expense Categories
-Inventory Breakdown: finished goods, work-in-progress, materials and supplies
40 – Production Material Costs & Tariff Analysis
– Top Production Material Costs Breakdown
– Industry & Material Tariff Analysis – % of costs, import %, tariff costs, source countries
41 – Producer Pricing Index
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
– Monthly PPI Figures for the Past 4 Years
42 – Plant Utilization & Hours
– Plant Utilization Rate
– Plant Operational Hours per Week
– 2022-2025 Historical Figures by Quarter
43 – Reasons for Non-Full Production
– 7 Categories Quarterly Survey Results for Past 2 Years
44 – Productivity & Employment
– Revenue per Employee
– Total Number of Employees
– Employees per Company
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
45 – Employee Productivity by Segments
46 – Employee Productivity by State
47 –Subsector Sales & Payroll per Employee
48 – Payroll
– Payroll per Employee, Company, & Plant
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
49 – Payroll per Company by Segments
50 – Payroll per Plant by Segments
51 – Payroll per Employee by Segments
52 – Payroll per Employee by State
53 – Employee Composition
– % of Employees for 27 Job Categories
54 – Job Categorization Pay Ranges
– Pay Bands – Bottom 10% & 25%, Mean, Top 25% & 10%
55 – Top 20 Jobs Breakdown
56 – Top 20 Jobs Pay
– Pay Bands
57 – Employees per Company by Segments
58 – Employees per Plant by Segments
59 – Facilities per Company by Segments
60 – Total Employment by State
61 – Population to Every Employee by State
62 – Employees per Facility by State
63 – Overview of Kentley Insights
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Product Lines, Materials, and Jobs Covered in Report
PRODUCT LINES
Assembly machines, including parts and attachments for metalworking assembly machines (sold separately)
Other metalworking machinery and parts and attachments for other metalworking machinery (excluding handheld and ultrasonic) (sold separately)
Other rolling mill machinery (including tube mill machinery) and parts for all rolling mill machinery
Hot rolling mill machinery (including combination hot and cold) (excluding tube rolling)
Rolling mill and other metalworking machinery manufacturing, nsk, total
Cold rolling mill machinery
MATERIAL COST CATEGORIES
Materials, ingredients, containers, and supplies, nsk
Cost of all other materials and components, parts, containers, and supplies consumed
Relays and industrial controls
Steel structural shapes and sheet piling (excluding castings, forgings, and fabricated metal products)
Misc. iron, steel, and ferroalloy ingot, shapes, and forms (excluding castings, forgings, bars, structural, wire, sheet, strip)
Misc. fabricated metal products (excluding hardware, containers, screw machine, bearing components, castings, forgings, and wire)
Nonferrous metal castings (excluding aluminum and aluminum-based alloy)
Machine tool accessories (including cutting tools)
Mechanical speed changers, gears, and industrial high-speed drives
Aluminum and aluminum-base alloy castings
Semiconductors, including transistors, diodes, rectifiers, and integrated circuits for electronic circuitry, and related devices
Fluid power hose, tube fittings, valves and assemblies (hydraulic and pneumatic)
INDUSTRY JOBS ANALYZED
Machinists
Tool and Die Makers
Computer Control Programmers and Operators
Machine Tool Cutting Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
Molders and Molding Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators
Mechanical Engineers
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing
General and Operations Managers
Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Workers
Shipping, Receiving, and Traffic Clerks
Industrial Machinery Installation, Repair, and Maintenance Workers
Office Clerks, General
Miscellaneous Production Workers
Industrial Production Managers
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
Industrial Engineers, Including Health and Safety
Laborers and Material Movers, Hand
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