Daikin Industries is the industrial machinery, equipment and tools company most prolific at making international expansions, followed by Atlas Copco and Fanuc. GlobalData’s industrial machinery, equipment and tools foreign direct investment (FDI) company report highlights the current foreign investments made by leading industrial machinery, equipment and tools investors. Buy the report here.
Daikin Industries has been the most active industrial machinery, equipment and tools greenfield investor between Q1 2019 and Q1 2024, according to GlobalData’s FDI Projects Database. The Parent_clean company has been actively investing through several of its subsidiaries/company divisions.
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Greenfield foreign direct investment is when a company invests abroad to establish a new physical presence or expand an existing operation. Greenfield investments create jobs and/or involve a capital investment into the foreign location. Other forms of FDI, such as mergers and acquisitions, are not included as part of this definition.
The majority of Daikin Industries investments were in the heating and cooling equipment subsector. In fact, 82.6% of its total foreign investments were in this subsector. It also created projects across a further seven subsectors.
By business function, most (41.3%) of Daikin Industries projects were related to manufacturing. Sales, administration & marketing and R&D were the next most popular operations undertaken by Daikin Industries.
The company has been active across seven world regions, mainly focused on Western Europe which received 32.6% of the company’s greenfield investments between Q1 2019 and Q1 2024. Its top three destination countries (by number of greenfield FDI projects) were Belgium, Turkiye and India. Combined these three countries account for 36.8% of its total number of industrial machinery, equipment and tools investments.
Daikin Industries created more FDI projects in 2022 compared to any other year between Q1 2019 and Q1 2024.
Other leading FDI project generators in the industrial machinery, equipment and tools industry include Atlas Copco, Fanuc, ABB and Robert Bosch Stiftung.
Germany is the leading source market for outbound industrial machinery, equipment and tools greenfield FDI projects. The country accounts for 14.8% of total outbound industrial machinery, equipment and tools investment projects. There have been 295 unique parent companies from Germany that have announced industrial machinery, equipment and tools FDI projects between between Q1 2019 and Q1 2024.
To further understand the top industrial machinery, equipment and tools FDI companies, access GlobalData’s Top industrial machinery, equipment and tools Foreign Direct Investment Companies report.
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