Someone asked about an Altendorf saw, and that sent me down a rabbit hole of reading. Altendorf only makes sliding table saws, and their website says they have made 150,000 saws in the 111 years the company has existed (~1,500/yr). I think that's a really interesting figure. Their website also makes me want to move to Germany and be a sliding table saw engineer at their very nice looking office (https://www.altendorf.com/en/company/locations.html)
Assuming an average price of $20k/saw (in today's dollars), that's ~$25M/yr in revenue, which seems pretty thin.
Then I got thinking: Felder, SCMI, Robland, Martin, Griggio....that's a lot of people making high-end sliders (not to mention the Asian imports).
The number of high-end sliders that get scrapped every year must be quite small, and the market for them can't possibly be growing (in light of CNC, greater automation, bigger factories, etc), can it? So how many new sliders get made in a given year? 10,000?
(Just a curiosity...)