European Foundry Industry Sentiment

Feb 17, 2022 | EU

Janu­ary 2022: European foundries are start­ing the new year with confidences The European Foundry Industry Sen­ti­ment Indic­ator (FISI) increases by a solid 1.31 points at the start of 2022 and reaches a value of 109.4 points. This marks the greatest month-on-month...

European Foundry Industry Sentiment

Jan 21, 2022 | EU

Decem­ber 2021: European foundries are end­ing the second of the pan­demic with mixed feelings After recent signs of a com­pre­hens­ive slow­down, steel, iron and non-fer­rous metal foundries assessed the cur­rent situ­ation in Decem­ber as sig­ni­fic­antly bet­ter...

New EFF pres­id­ent Chiara Danieli with full agenda in key year for European foundry industry

Jan 11, 2022 | EU, General information

The new year 2022 will be an import­ant one for the European foundry industry. On the one hand, Covid-19 infec­tion fig­ures, sup­ply bot­tle­necks and energy costs determ­ine daily busi­ness and affect the import­ant recov­ery of the man­u­fac­tur­ing sec­tor. On the...

European Foundry Industry Sentiment

Dec 17, 2021 | EU

Novem­ber 2021: Throw­back at the end of the year While the assess­ment of the cur­rent busi­ness situ­ation for non-fer­rous metal foundries has been declin­ing in stages since June, the situ­ation for iron foundries has so far remained stable at a high level...

European Foundry Industry Sentiment

Nov 19, 2021 | EU

Octo­ber 2021: Threat of Setback In Octo­ber, the European Foundry Sen­ti­ment Indic­ator (FISI) dropped sig­ni­fic­antly. The decrease of 1.0 index points was the largest month-on-month drop since April 2020 when the first wave of Covid-19 infec­tions hit Europe. The...

Raw Mater­ial and Energy Prices: Exist­en­tial threat to the European Foundry Industry — Call for Bilat­eral Agreements

Oct 28, 2021 | EU, General information

Prices for raw mater­i­als, energy and logist­ics have soared on a broad front while an increas­ing num­ber of input factors is prone to run out of European stocks within the next weeks. For­ward­ing these unavoid­able cost increases is how­ever not taken for granted....