The VDMA Office Poland is the bridge for Polish mechanical engineering companies to the VDMA's high-quality services, professional expertise and valuable international network.
Our office is strategically located in the Polish capital Warsaw and offers optimal connections to the German and European industry. We see ourselves as a partner for mechanical and plant engineering companies that want to expand their presence on the Polish market or need assistance on the Polish market. With competence and commitment, we support them in achieving their goals and being successful.
Poland: Opportunities and great potential for investors
Foreign Trade Department
Experience Exchange (open to participate)
Digital format
In this VDMA web event, we would like to highlight the investment opportunities for machine and plant manufacturers in Poland and provide up-to-date information on the economic climate, investment incentives and local support options.
At the web event on October 15, 2025, Dr. iur. Alexandra Balmer from the German-Swiss Chamber of Commerce will answer your questions about assembly assignments in Switzerland.
Work assignments in Europe: We present the results of the reporting obligation survey and show how the VDMA is campaigning for the eDeclaration. The country focus is on Norway - with clear dos and don'ts for your work assignments.
What do companies need to consider when sending employees to Finland? Our web event offers you a compact overview of the current legal regulations - from occupational health care to applying for the zero tax card.
Ask your questions about work assignments abroad and get in touch online with the VDMA Tax, Legal and Foreign Trade departments!
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VDMA Magazin Teaser Länderporträt Polen
Country portrait
Poland: Innovative and open
As the largest economy in Central Eastern Europe, Poland is an attractive market. Companies appreciate the good qualifications and high motivation of the workforce, even though wage costs are approaching the EU average.
Industry knowledge
Industry knowledge
With 3600 members, the VDMA is the largest network organization and an important voice for the machinery and equipment manufacturing industry in Germany and Europe.
In the EU, machines, machine parts, components and systems were manufactured for an estimated EUR 908 billion in 2023.
With around 3 million employees mechanical and plant engineering is the largest employer among the capital goods industries in the EU.
The VDMA is becoming increasingly attractive for companies in other European countries. We are consistently pursuing this path, because our future as an industrial SME is Europe!
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Do you have individual questions or need professional advice? Our experts will be happy to advise you in person, by telephone or at your premises.
With cost-free listings in our online directories, you can present yourself to potential customers.
By participating in research activities and utilizing the results, we offer your company access to the best minds in science. What is more, we help you to recognize relevant mechanical engineering trends and disruptions at an early stage to make them useful for your business.
We provide you with survey results and benchmarks from various business areas that will help you evaluating and classifying your company’s performance, amongst other things.
Access to an extensive statistics data base, forecasts, country reports and much more will help you manage your business activities.
Take advantage of the many opportunities at VDMA for networking and collaboration along the entire industrial value chain and mechanical engineering topics - in person or online.
With our VDMA newsletters we inform you by email about current trends, news, and events from the VDMA and the world of mechanical engineering – you decide which newsletters you need.
We represent the issues of mechanical engineering in Germany and Europe on your behalf. Our technical expertise, our knowledge of the industry, and our straightforward positioning makes us a recognized and valued contact for companies, as well as for the public, science, administration, and politics.
The VDMA offers you a comprehensive range of further education and training courses relevant to mechanical engineering: Conferences, courses, seminars as well as digital learning.
Stay on top of technical legislation with our support. In addition, the VDMA promotes the competitiveness of the mechanical engineering industry through its participation in the DIN Standards Committee for Mechanical Engineering (NAM).
With our publications, we impart knowledge and provide insights into the latest developments in our industry and in our association.
The VDMA magazine is aimed exclusively at VDMA member companies and gives them unusual insights into the mechanical engineering industry. What challenges is it dealing with? What projects is it working on? And how does it envision the future? To find out, we talk to our members and visit them on site. In doing so, we don't shy away from presenting controversial viewpoints that reflect the diversity and vibrancy of mechanical engineering.
We offer various networking events, including high-level congresses and target-group specific experience exchanges on expert level. In addition, VDMA connects you with your customers during numerous trade fairs and exhibition activities; in Germany and all over the world.
3,600 primarily medium-sized member companies in the capital goods industry make the VDMA the largest industrial association in Europe and the most important network organization in the industry.
Strong representation of interests
The VDMA is the most important voice of the machinery and equipment manufacturing industry. It represents the common economic, technical and scientific interests of the industry in Germany and around the world.
A wide range of services
More than 500 VDMA employees worldwide support you with practical services to make the right decisions in your company - along the entire value chain.
