European Foundry Industry Sentiment

March 2021: Fur­ther improve­ment of the cur­rent busi­ness situation The European Foundry Industry Sen­ti­ment Indic­ator (FISI) con­tin­ues its recov­ery trend. Com­pared to the his­tor­ical pre­vi­ous month, how­ever, the recov­ery of the European foundries’...

EFF par­ti­cip­ates in the Tar­geted Stake­holder Survey

Invited by the EU Com­mis­sion, EFF par­ti­cip­ated in the so-called Tar­geted Stake­holder Sur­vey (TSS) — a detailed con­sulta­tion on the fur­ther devel­op­ment of the Indus­trial Emis­sions Dir­ect­ive (IED). The IED is the back­bone for the author­isa­tion of...

European Foundry Industry Sentiment

February2021: Recov­ery picks up significantly The Busi­ness Cli­mate Indic­ator increases by a sig­ni­fic­ant 3.4 index points in Feb­ru­ary, reach­ing a value of 104.7 points. Only once in the past ten years the industry has repor­ted a higher increase within one...

NEPSI released revised Good Prac­tice Guide

The safety and health of employ­ees in foundries has top pri­or­ity. Fur­ther improv­ing the high stand­ards is a vital part of our activ­it­ies. There­fore, we sup­port the European Net­work for Silica (NEPSI) and par­ti­cip­ate in their bien­nial report­ing. NEPSI...

European Foundry Industry Sentiment

Janu­ary 2021: European foundries start the new year with a pos­it­ive momentum After the European Foundry Sen­ti­ment Indic­ator (FISI) already closed the pre­vi­ous year with a pos­it­ive sig­nal, it increased by sig­ni­fic­ant 1.1 index points in Janu­ary. This...

European Foundry Industry Sentiment

Decem­ber 2020: European foundries close the crisis year with a cau­tiously pos­it­ive signal After the European Foundry Sen­ti­ment Indic­ator (FISI) took a break in the recov­ery pro­cess in the pre­vi­ous month, it increased mod­er­ately again at the end of the...