Orgalime, the European Engineering Industries Association, speaks for 35 trade federations representing some 130,000 companies (majority being SMEs) in the mechanical, electrical, electronic, metalworking & metal articles industries of 23 European countries. The industry employs some 11.1 million people in the EU and in 2008 accounted for some €1,885 billion of annual output. The industry not only represents more than one quarter of the output of manufactured products but also a third of the manufactured exports of the European Union.