Last I checked they were still building things. And definitely designing things. We can argue about the quality. I don't know what this is about.
Maybe in relation to developing countries with 10x the population. If the output matched the population, well, you'd still expect China to have 1/6 of everything BUT. Some other countries have large populations, and if they product according to that they will displace Germany which has had an outsize sector. But they could continue to have an outsize sector is my point. Total production goes up.
Tbf paper is a difficult business to be in right now.
I've heard of mills having to switch over to cardboard (fewer letters, more Amazon boxes) or give up. many in the US shutdown, too, and often this was celebrated because they're smelly eyesores.
Too bad.. germans designed things that worked. The so called "german engineering" is gonna be lost.
Last I checked they were still building things. And definitely designing things. We can argue about the quality. I don't know what this is about.
Maybe in relation to developing countries with 10x the population. If the output matched the population, well, you'd still expect China to have 1/6 of everything BUT. Some other countries have large populations, and if they product according to that they will displace Germany which has had an outsize sector. But they could continue to have an outsize sector is my point. Total production goes up.
A lot of old German companies have in fact been bought by Chinese companies, who continue to operate and sell with the German brands.
Germany isn't building much anymore. At best you have the head offices in Germany but production has moved to China or other EU countries.
I recall Germany's oldest paper mill shut down due to outrageous energy costs.
Tbf paper is a difficult business to be in right now.
I've heard of mills having to switch over to cardboard (fewer letters, more Amazon boxes) or give up. many in the US shutdown, too, and often this was celebrated because they're smelly eyesores.
I guess you'd have to show me a statistic. I see what they build, like industrial machinery. That does not account for what they no longer build.