NEWS
Italian machine sales boom on back of healthy exports
Italian machinery manufacturers reported a 10% increase in sales last year – buoyed by a large increase in sales to some of its leading export markets.
Amaplast, the trade organisation
that represents around 170 manufac- turers of plastics and rubber machin- ery, said that total sales rose to €4.67bn in 2017. Of this, €3.3bn was due to exports – which increased by 12% compared to 2016.
Sales to Germany – its top foreign
market – rose by nearly 20%, to exceed €481m. It raised sales to its second largest market, the USA, by a similar amount to reach €276m. And, while sales to France rose more than 21% to €159m and to Spain by nearly 5% (reaching €148m), there were some declines – notably to Mexico (down nearly 17% to €143m) and Poland (a fall of nearly 4% to €159m), it said. “The order portfolio horizon for Italian manufacturers has been considerably extended,” said Alessan- dro Grassi, Amaplast president.
France Poland Spain
Mexico China
Czech Republic UK
Romania Others
Source: Amaplast
www.filmandsheet.com
2017 sales (€m) 481 276 160 159 148 143 134 127 119 96
1,467
“Many companies are able to plan production at least to the end of the year – and quite a few are having difficulty keeping up with customer requests.” Further down the list, both Roma- nia and Russia increased orders by almost 70% in 2017 – with sales to each country reaching almost €100m. Sales to Asia were generally weak, with modest sales increases to the Middle East offset by declines in more important markets like India and China.
In South America, sales to Brazil
rose by around 40% to exceed €50m In addition to healthy exports, domestic sales also rose by 10%, to €2.3bn, while machinery imports were up 14% to €970m. Grassi added that the forthcoming
Plast exhibition – held in Milan in late May and early June – will help to accelerate these gains. “Participants are confident of doing significant amounts of business and expanding their order books directly,” he said. �
www.amaplast.org
Top 10 export markets for Italian machinery (%) Country Germany USA
Rise/fall (%) +19.7 +20.4 +21.5 -3.7
+8.1 -16.7 -2.5
+25.9 +1.1
+68.6 +11.8
% of total 14.5 8.3 4.8 4.8 4.5 4.3 4.1 3.8 3.6 2.9
44.4
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