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Poland Construction Machinery
The construction machinery industry, which expanded
during
the 1970s on the basis of Western licenses, traditionally
exported a large proportion of its output to the Soviet
Union,
with which some joint ventures were established. Under
license,
with Western firms, Polish machinery plants produced
mobile
cranes, heavy truck axles, hydraulic equipment,
truck-mounted
concrete mixers, and other construction machinery. In the
1980s,
reduced Western investments in Poland curtailed demand for
these
products. In the 1990s, the highly centralized,
bureaucratic
construction machine industry was reorganized into a large
number
of small- and medium-sized private firms. The
reorganization
targeted expansion of the housing construction industry,
which
received high priority in reform planning. The second goal
of
this reorganization was to revive demand for the
relatively
modern and sophisticated construction machines that the
Polish
industry was able to produce.
Data as of October 1992
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