Against the backdrop of sustained strong demand for construction machinery and garden equipment, Omida recently completed a new batch of product shipments to France. The shipment includes mini excavators, track excavator parts and accessories, and various models of high-efficiency lawn mowers. Using a combined "rail + sea" intermodal transport route via Qingdao Port, the goods are being delivered to the ports of Marseille and Le Havre in France, and then handed over to local French distributors and end users. This shipment marks another step forward in Omida’s strategic expansion into the European market and serves as an important practice of “Jining Manufacturing” deeply integrating into the global supply chain.
China’s construction machinery exports are on a fast growth track. From January to February 2026, China’s export value of construction machinery reached US$10.686 billion, a year-on-year increase of 33.4%, with the export volume of crawler excavators rising by 53.41% year-on-year. For the full year of 2025, China’s total export volume of crawler excavators reached 308,000 units, with an export value of RMB 73.63 billion, representing year-on-year growth of 37.8% and 31.2%, respectively.
France is an important target market for Chinese construction machinery in Europe. In 2025, China exported more than 6,000 crawler excavators to France. In 2026, the Western European market continues its recovery momentum; excavator export sales in the 12 Western European countries (including France) grew by 39.70% year-on-year, a particularly outstanding performance.
Omida’s product line includes mini excavators, wheeled excavators, crawler excavators, and various sizes of buckets. The mini excavators shipped to France this time are the company’s latest upgraded models, featuring a compact design and high-efficiency power systems, suitable for narrow working conditions such as municipal maintenance, landscaping, indoor renovation, and agricultural gardening in France. The accompanying buckets have capacities ranging from 2.5 to 7.5 cubic meters and can be used in construction projects, municipal construction, water conservancy and hydropower, and other applications.
In the area of garden machinery, the exported lawn mowers include push, self-propelled, and zero-turn models, which have won the favor of French customers due to their high cost-performance ratio and stable performance. In 2025, China’s export value of horticultural and forage machinery reached US$4.62 billion, a year-on-year increase of 28.3%. France’s demand for environmentally friendly garden equipment powered by electricity and lithium batteries is growing. Omida has introduced low-emission, low-noise lawn mowers that precisely meet France’s green environmental requirements.
CE certification is the “access passport” for entering the EU market. Excavators and lawn mowers must comply with the safety standards of the EU Machinery Directive (2006/42/EC). Omida places great importance on product compliance, and multiple models of its excavators and lawn mowers have already obtained EU CE certification, enabling legal sales in France and throughout the EU. In 2025, the EU CE certification added new requirements such as cybersecurity and “Digital Product Passports,” and the standard review cycle was shortened to six months. Omida, with its professional certification team and continuous technical investment, ensures that its products always meet the latest EU standards.
The French construction, mining, and quarrying machinery market is dominated by foreign suppliers, with imports accounting for as much as 77.3% of the total market size. In 2024, the French construction machinery market reached a size of US$6.5 billion. At the same time, the French garden machinery market has bright prospects. Consumers’ demand for electric and battery-powered environmentally friendly tools is growing, and lithium-battery lawn mowers and intelligent robotic mowers are attracting increasing attention. Omida has seized this opportunity by entering the French market with a differentiated product strategy. Adhering to a “customer-needs-oriented” business philosophy, the company adapts its products to different regional working conditions and habits in France, continuously improving product competitiveness and customer satisfaction.
As the global construction machinery industry continues its strong performance and China-EU economic and trade cooperation deepens, China’s exports of construction machinery and garden equipment are expected to maintain robust growth. In 2025, Shandong Province’s export value of construction machinery reached RMB 39.03 billion, a year-on-year increase of 20.3%, of which exports to the EU were RMB 3.73 billion, up 18.2% year-on-year. Omida, as an important member of the construction machinery industry in Jining, Shandong, is accelerating its global expansion.
A responsible person from Omida said that in the future, the company will increase its efforts to build a local service system in the European market, improve its after-sales network, and enhance brand influence. At the same time, it will continue to increase R&D investment, promote product upgrades toward electrification and intelligence, and win the trust of European customers with higher quality and better service, so that “Jining Manufacturing” shines even more brightly in overseas markets.
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