42000000-6
Industrial machinery
The official CPV 2008 entry for 42000000-6. UK public sector buyers use this code to classify contracts on Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Sell2Wales, Public Contracts Scotland and eTendersNI.
Tenders, last 12 months
1,648
Published value, last 12 months
£393.5B
Buyers publishing most against this code
- UK Research and Innovation64
- UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)53
- UK Atomic Energy Authority30
- Ministry of Justice27
- Sellafield Limited26
Data as of 27 July 2026. Counted across Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Sell2Wales, Public Contracts Scotland and eTendersNI.
Codes beneath this one
More specific classifications inside this code. Buyers pick one of these when a contract has a narrow subject.
- 42100000Machinery for the production and use of mechanical power
- 42200000Machinery for food, beverage and tobacco processing and associated parts
- 42300000Industrial or laboratory furnaces, incinerators and ovens
- 42400000Lifting and handling equipment and parts
- 42500000Cooling and ventilation equipment
- 42600000Machine tools
- 42700000Machinery for textile, apparel and leather production
- 42800000Machinery for paper or paperboard production
- 42900000Miscellaneous general and special-purpose machinery
Other top-level divisions
The other top-level CPV divisions. Each covers a different area of public sector spend, so scanning across them is how you find where a contract you would expect elsewhere actually sits.
- 03000000Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry and related products
- 09000000Petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy
- 14000000Mining, basic metals and related products
- 15000000Food, beverages, tobacco and related products
- 16000000Agricultural machinery
- 18000000Clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories
- 19000000Leather and textile fabrics, plastic and rubber materials
- 22000000Printed matter and related products
- 24000000Chemical products
- 30000000Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages
- 31000000Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting
- 32000000Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment
- 33000000Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products
- 34000000Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation
- 35000000Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment
- 37000000Musical instruments, sport goods, games, toys, handicraft, art materials and accessories
- 38000000Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
- 39000000Furniture (incl. office furniture), furnishings, domestic appliances (excl. lighting) and cleaning products
- 41000000Collected and purified water
- 43000000Machinery for mining, quarrying, construction equipment
- 44000000Construction structures and materials; auxiliary products to construction (except electric apparatus)
- 45000000Construction work
- 48000000Software package and information systems
- 50000000Repair and maintenance services
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Codes buyers commonly use instead
Codes that appear on the same notices as this one. If you monitor this code alone, these are where the work you are missing tends to land.
- 38000000Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
- 45000000Construction work
- 31000000Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting
- 44000000Construction structures and materials; auxiliary products to construction (except electric apparatus)
- 50000000Repair and maintenance services
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