The sector “Machinery and appliances” registered a decrease in the export flows of 28.8%  in 2009 compared with he previous year.
The companies of the sector are located above all in the area of Marghera, Mirano and San Donà di Piave and are characterised by a varied manufacturing activity.

Analysing the engineering sector in detail, it can be seen how high the number of company products of this sector is:

• industrial machinery: equipment and systems for processing wood, agricultural machinery and tools, machinery for the shoemaking industry, machines for cutting fabrics, for conversion of abrasive materials and machinery for the processing of plastic materials, handling systems, painting systems, solvent purifying systems, machinery for the production of brushes, for processing Indian millet and monofilament, industrial ovens for the production of glass, mechanical electrical hoisters, profiling tools for cold-pressing of metal, systems for the production of welded tubing in high frequency, overinjection and overcompression moulds for the automobile sector, transport and metering systems and additive weighing for steel mills, driers and concrete mixers.
•  machines for special use: guide-ways in metal for storage and handling in abbatoirs, humidifiers, driers, handling hoppers, refrigerator units, straighteners and flatteners, machines for the manufacturing of ophthalmic lenses, concrete mixers, rail-track grinding vehicles, truck mixers.
• machine tools and their parts: pressure rollers for textile machines, automatic labelling machines for packaging lines, universal sharpeners for milling machines, abrasive wheels, conveyor belt chains, machine tools for mechanical workshops, robots for injection presses, pricing guns, welding torches, agricultural levelling blades, mowers and bush cutters, knives and granulators for cutting plastic, circular saws for cutting light alloys, electric pumps, thermoventilation units, cooling towers.
•  machines and machinery for environmental safety and refuse disposal: extraction, filtering and dust suction systems, industrial plants for recycling waste, vacuum evaporation systems for purification of refuse, plants for treating industrial waste, mobile crushing units for the recycling of demolition material.

The electric-electronic sector produces an equally large number of goods: intercommunication and video-intercommunication systems, chronothermostats, assembly kits for radio-receivers and amplifiers, transmitters of analogical and digital data, units for monitoring environmental air quality, laser radio-frequency pistols, barcode readers, electronic sensors and units, telephone and computer equipment, three-phase and single-phase power supplies, refrigerator units, isolating switches for medium, high and very high voltage, electric motors, cam rotating electric switches, distribution and power transformers in oil and resin.