European Foundry Industry Sen­ti­ment improves in August 2026 – expect­a­tions strengthen, but major dif­fer­ences between foundry seg­ments remain.
The European foundry industry recor­ded a fur­ther improve­ment in busi­ness sen­ti­ment in August 2026. The European Foundry Industry Sen­ti­ment Indic­ator (FISI) increased to 97.0 points, up from 96.0 in July, con­tinu­ing the gradual recov­ery seen after the weak­ness earlier this year. Nev­er­the­less, FISI remains below the bench­mark level of 100, under­lin­ing that the recov­ery of the European foundry industry is still incom­plete and highly uneven across indi­vidual cast­ing seg­ments. The August data show a par­tic­u­larly strong con­trast between steel foundries, which con­tinue to face dif­fi­cult cur­rent con­di­tions, and the much stronger non-fer­­rous sector.