June every year is usually the traditional off-season for the construction machinery industry, but in 2026 there has been a hot scene of “off-season but not off-season”.
According to multiple visits and surveys, the production lines of many domestic construction machinery manufacturing companies are operating at full capacity, and electrified products are “hard to find”. The delivery cycle of some orders has been significantly longer than in previous years.
In the production workshop of a leading engineering machinery manufacturing company in Liuzhou, Guangxi, a batch of electric loaders are being assembled.
Due to the surge in orders, it has become normal for many customers to queue up at the factory to wait for goods.
A purchasing customer purchased 27 855TE electric loaders at one time to replace old fuel equipment and expand production capacity. Currently, only 17 units have been delivered, and the remaining 10 units are still waiting in line for delivery.
The person in charge of production of the company said that in the face of a blowout of orders, the company continued to ramp up and increase production, and the single-day delivery record of electric loaders is also constantly being refreshed. The production line is currently operating at full capacity, the production capacity utilization rate is full, the output of the entire machine has increased significantly year-on-year, and the overall order demand has increased by nearly 50% year-on-year. Among them, the performance of electric loaders has been particularly impressive, with orders increasing by 100% year-on-year.
Not only companies in Guangxi, but also many construction machinery companies in Changsha are also full of orders.
A person in charge of the pumping business revealed that as the market penetration rate of electrified products continues to rise in 2026, orders are booming across the board. Orders that could be delivered in the same month in previous years will now be delayed by two months.
In previous years, the industry’s peak season usually ended before June and came to an end around May. However, this year’s demand for orders continues to be strong and is expected to last until July. According to the current delivery schedule, June orders may not be fully completed until August. Currently, companies are accelerating the production pace and making every effort to ensure delivery.
Public statistics show that from January to May 2026, sales of new energy engineering machinery in my country maintained a good growth momentum.
Taking electric loaders as an example, a total of 20,819 units were sold from January to May, a year-on-year increase of 90.9%.
Industry analysts point out that electrification is becoming the core engine of growth in the construction machinery industry. Against the background of high oil prices, electrified products have lower costs of use and maintenance, and their life-cycle cost advantages are further highlighted.
Take products such as loaders, aerial work platforms, mixers, and forklifts as examples. Their operating scenarios are relatively fixed and their operating cycles are relatively continuous. Domestic and foreign markets are expected to see accelerated penetration rates.
While the domestic market is “not slow in the off-season”, overseas markets are also booming in production and sales.
In the first five months of 2026, my country’s construction machinery exports continued to grow at a high rate, with many companies breaking through the upper limit of production capacity, and the logistics and delivery rhythm also changed from the “monthly concentration” of previous years to “normalization.”
In a crane production workshop in Ningxiang, Hunan, the production line is operating at full capacity. The relevant person in charge said that overseas demand has been very strong this year. In order to deliver on time, the production line has exceeded the maximum capacity of the original design. Compared with last year, overseas orders have increased by 30%, and are showing a month-by-month growth trend. Customer order volume and corporate production capacity continue to exceed historical peaks.
The survey shows that the overseas orders of construction machinery companies have grown significantly since the beginning of this year. Not only the traditional advantage markets continue to consolidate, but the growth of emerging markets is also strong.
At present, sales in the North American market have increased by more than 150% year-on-year, sales in the European market have increased by 90% year-on-year, and sales in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Japan and South Korea have all increased by more than 60%.
Data from other leading companies show that from January to May 2026, its export volume increased by nearly 50% year-on-year. The export growth of core products such as loaders, excavators, and graders is mainly concentrated in emerging markets such as Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Public statistics show that from January to May 2026, my country’s construction machinery import and export trade volume was US$28.911 billion, a year-on-year increase of 19.5%, of which the export value was US$27.902 billion, a year-on-year increase of 20.8%.
Industry analysts say that there is still relatively large room for growth in my country’s construction machinery going overseas in the future. On the one hand, my country’s construction machinery currently accounts for only 17% of the global market, which is still at a low level. On the other hand, the gross profit margin of overseas construction machinery sales is much higher than domestically. Therefore, construction machinery manufacturers have sufficient motivation to go overseas, and subsequent export growth is highly sustainable.
