European Foundry Industry Sentiment

Decem­ber 2025: 

The European Foundry Industry Sen­ti­ment Index (FISI) increased in Decem­ber 2025.

The European foundry industry ended the year 2025 with a slight upside. The European Foundry Industry Sen­ti­ment Index (FISI), pub­lished monthly by European Foundry Fed­er­a­tion, increased by 0.5 point in Decem­ber 2025 and reached a level of  95.8 points.

The situ­ation on the cast iron mar­ket in the main European mar­kets was at a sim­ilar level as a month earlier, but it is worth not­ing that expect­a­tions for the next 6 months, in par­tic­u­lar on the Ger­man mar­ket, are rel­at­ively optimistic.

The situ­ation is sim­ilar on the steel cast­ing mar­ket. The Ger­man mar­ket showed an increase in pro­duc­tion com­pared to Novem­ber 2025 and such a trend is also planned for the next half of the year. In the other EFF mem­ber coun­tries, the situ­ation on the steel cast­ings mar­ket has not changed com­pared to November.

Tak­ing into account the mar­ket of non-fer­rous metal cast­ings, the cur­rent situ­ation in EFF mem­ber coun­tries and expect­a­tions for the next 6 months are quite pos­it­ive. It is worth not­ing that the foundry mar­kets in Italy and Ger­many anti­cip­ate an increase in the pro­duc­tion of cast­ings made of this mater­ial. In the other coun­tries par­ti­cip­at­ing in the sur­vey, the expec­ted level of pro­duc­tion will be at a sim­ilar level as in pre­vi­ous months.

The Busi­ness Cli­mate Index (BCI), pub­lished by the European Com­mis­sion, reached ‑0.56 in Decem­ber 2025, com­pared to the pre­vi­ous read­ing of ‑0.66 in Novem­ber 2025.

The Euro­zone Man­u­fac­tur­ing PMI in Decem­ber 2025 reached a level of 48.8 which was a decrease by 0.9 point from the value of 49.7 in Novem­ber 2025.

The FISI – European Foundry Industry Sen­ti­ment Indic­ator – is the earli­est avail­able com­pos­ite indic­ator provid­ing inform­a­tion on the European foundry industry per­form­ance. It is pub­lished by EFF —  European Foundry Fed­er­a­tion every month and is based on sur­vey responses of the European foundry industry. The EFF mem­bers are asked to give their assess­ment of the cur­rent busi­ness situ­ation in the foundry sec­tor and their expect­a­tions for the next six months.

The BCI – Busi­ness Cli­mate Indic­ator – is an indic­ator pub­lished by the European Com­mis­sion. The BCI eval­u­ates devel­op­ment con­di­tions of the man­u­fac­tur­ing sec­tor in the euro area every month and uses five bal­ances of opin­ion from industry sur­vey: pro­duc­tion trends, order books, export order books, stocks and pro­duc­tion expectations.

Pur­chas­ing Man­agers’ Index (PMI) -  in the Euro area is an indic­ator of the eco­nomic health of the man­u­fac­tur­ing sec­tor. It is based on such indic­at­ors as: new orders, invent­ory levels, pro­duc­tion, sup­plier deliv­er­ies and the employ­ment environment.

EFF Con­tact:

Wit­old Dobosz
Gen­eral Sec­ret­ariat
mail: info@eff-eu.org