NEWS
Poor year for Italian machinery for first three quarters of 2019
Trade data for the first three quarters of 2019, generated by the Italian National Statistical Institute and analysed by the sector trade association Amaplast, indicates a negative year-end result for the Italian plastics and rubber processing machinery industry. Amaplast attributes the
poor result to “many issues and unknowns characterising the current world economic climate, compounded by the announced, but as yet poorly defined, legislative and fiscal measures aiming at reducing the use of plastics”. Both exports and imports
Italian market for plastics and rubber machinery, equipment and moulds (Forecast Δ% 2019/2018)
Production Exports Imports
Domestic market Trade balance
Source: Amaplast
were down on the same period in 2018. The former fell by 8.5% to €2.16bn; the latter 13.1% down to €645m. The trade balance fell by
6% but remains positive at €1.5bn, according to the association.
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“I note a certain amount
of concern deriving from the less than encouraging prospects for both the domestic and foreign markets,” according to Amaplast president Dario Previero.
“However, we must not overlook the fact that this slump – whose first signs were seen in the year-end results for 2018 – comes after a long period of growth.” Germany remains the top
export market, though sales there were 19.9% down at €270m and its share of the total fell from 14.3% to 12.5%. Most other European
export markets were also weak.
However, Italy’s second biggest market, the US, bucked the trend with sales 15.0% up to €224m, taking its share of the total to 10.4%. Some of the sharpest declines were in Turkey (-30%), Austria (-28%) and Switzerland (-24%). South Korea also saw a decline (-31%).
However, positive growth was seen in other Asian mar- kets, notably Thailand (+24%), Indonesia (+39%), China (+14%) and Japan (+33%). �
www.amaplast.org
Reifenhäuser, Macchi and Piovan join Plastics Extrusion World Expo 2020
Reifenhäuser, Macchi and Piovan are among the latest companies to book stands at the Plastics Extrusion World Expo 2020, which takes place at Messe Essen in Germany on 3-4 June. The exhibition made its successful debut in Cleveland, USA last year (pictured), and features a free-to-attend conference theatre covering the latest developments in film, sheet, pipe, profile and tubing extrusion. Speakers already confirmed for the Essen event include senior representatives from Barbier, Berry BPI, Bischof + Klein, Cofresco, Grupo Armando Alvarez, Klöckner Pentaplast, Pipelife, Polyplas- tic Group, Profine and Sealed Air.
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booked stands at Essen include Amut, Borealis, Clariant, Dynisco, Erema, ExxonMobil, Gabriel Chemie, Gneuss, Inoex, Jwell Machinery, Krauss Maffei Extrusion, Labtech Engineering, Maag, Motan Colortronic, Nordson, Plastic Systems, Starlinger, Theysohn Extrusion, Clariant, and Westlake Compounds. For information on
The Plastics Extrusion World Expo will run alongside exhibitions focused on plastics recycling, compounding and testing, benefitting from the considerable crossover between these markets. In total, there will be more than 300 exhibitors. Other companies that have already
FILM & SHEET EXTRUSION | January/February 2020
booking a stand at the show, please contact Levent Tounjer at
levent.tounjer@
ami.international or +44 117 314 8183. Register for your free ticket to
attend the exhibition and conference here. �
www.ami.international/exhibitions
www.filmandsheet.com
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