2, the main industrial sectors are iron and steel, machinery manufacturing, chemicals, mining, electronics and automobile engine manufacturing.
(1) machinery industry: including metal processing, machinery and equipment manufacturing, etc., is Austria's largest industry, there are about 1,900 enterprises, the output value of about 1/4 of Austria's industrial output value. Austria Machinery industry annual R & D investment up to about 480 million euros. Specialty machinery, customized machinery and boiler construction are the core competencies of the Austrian machinery industry.
(2) Chemical industry: It is one of the important industrial sectors in Austria. According to the Austrian National Investment Promotion Agency (ABA), the chemical industry accounts for about 1/10th of the total industrial output.
(3) Austrian automotive industry: There are about 700 companies with 150,000-200,000 employees and an annual turnover of about 21.5 billion euros. If you add the related industries and services, the total employment in the automotive industry can reach 370,000 people, equivalent to every 8 jobs in the automotive industry.