EXON Radar · Market analytics
What equipment do Egyptian contractors ask for?
4,726 posts in the window are explicit requests — 3,959 to buy and 767 to rent — and wheel loaders alone carry 44% of everything asked for. Measured against what is on offer, the tightest class in Egypt is dump trucks: 50 requests for every 100 listings.
Data as of Oct 26, 2026 · 102,752 posts analysed · Egypt
What buyers ask for
Requests concentrate where the market already is: wheel loaders take 44% of them. The interesting chart is the middle one — requests per 100 listings — because that is where asking exceeds offering.
Demand pressure, class by class
Requests and listings for the same machine class, side by side. A high last column means buyers are asking for a machine the market is not putting up.
| Machine | Requests | Listings | Per 100 listings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dump trucks | 139 | 281 | 50 |
| Bulldozers | 104 | 335 | 31 |
| Graders | 84 | 281 | 30 |
| Wheel loaders | 2,405 | 11,071 | 22 |
| Excavators | 1,059 | 5,066 | 21 |
| Trucks | 91 | 1,395 | 7 |
| Generators | 66 | 1,319 | 5 |
| Cranes | 17 | 643 | 3 |
| Forklifts | 37 | 1,645 | 2 |
| Mixer trucks | 4 | 256 | 2 |
Brands asked for, brands offered
Demand is more brand-loyal than supply: buyers name a brand more often than sellers have that brand to sell. Beside it, the requests themselves, week by week.
What buyers ask in the comments
23% of classified comments are one question: how much? The hour of day a request lands matters too — the Egyptian market posts late.
Questions this page answers
What heavy equipment is most in demand in Egypt?
Wheel loaders, by a distance: they carry 44% of all stated requests, with excavators second. That mirrors what is listed, so a high request count alone does not mean a machine is scarce.
Which machines are hardest to find in Egypt?
Measured as requests per 100 listings, the tightest class is dump trucks, at 50 per 100, followed by bulldozers and graders. The easiest to source are mixer trucks and forklifts.
How many people are asking to rent rather than buy?
767 of the 4,726 requests ask to rent; 3,959 ask to buy. Renting is under-stated in these groups, because renting is usually arranged on the phone rather than posted.
Is this demand for new or used machines?
Almost entirely used. These groups are a second-hand market; requests for new machines appear mainly as dealer offers of imported units, not as buyer requests.
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Method
- A request is a post the classifier reads as wanting to buy or rent, not a post offering a machine. 4,726 posts qualified.
- Requests per 100 listings compares the same window and the same machine class, and is only shown for classes with at least 50 listings.
- Comment intents come from a separate classification of comments on the same posts.
- A request is an intention, not a purchase order: some are speculative, some are repeated by the same person, and nothing here is verified against a completed deal.
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