EFF reviews the EU-UK-Agreement

Jan 12, 2021 | EU, General information

At the end of 2020, shortly before the end of the post-Brexit trans­ition period, nego­ti­ations between the UK and the EU have seen a new dynamic. As a res­ult of com­plex nego­ti­ations, and after both parties had once again expressed their strong com­mit­ment to...

European Foundry Industry Sentiment

Dec 15, 2020 | EU

Novem­ber 2020: So far no fur­ther col­lapse des­pite explod­ing num­bers of Covid-19 cases In Novem­ber, the European Foundry Sen­ti­ment Indic­ator (FISI) remains at the pre­vi­ous month’s level. The min­imal decline of 0.1 index points to the level of 99.6 is...

EFF Year­book 2019 published

Oct 16, 2020 | EU, General information

Data on European foundries of unique scope and depth help to clas­sify the cur­rent crisis and reveal the chal­lenges of the over­all struc­tural change in the industry. The cur­rent year is marked by the Covid-19 pan­demic in all eco­nomic and social aspects in...

European Foundry Industry Sentiment

Oct 15, 2020 | EU

Septem­ber 2020: Neg­at­ive trend of the past months stopped After the European Foundry Sen­ti­ment Indic­ator (FISI) has shown a neg­at­ive sign in each of the past 6 months, this trend stopped in Septem­ber. How­ever, the psy­cho­lo­gic­ally import­ant change of...

Dr Roberto Ariotti leads the EFF Exec­ut­ive Committee

Oct 7, 2020 | EU, General information

Dr Roberto Ariotti, chair­man of the Italian Foundry Asso­ci­ation since 2013, was elec­ted pres­id­ent of the Exec­ut­ive Com­mit­tee at the coun­cil meet­ing of EFF. He suc­ceeds Mr Luis Filipe Vil­las-Boas, who had held the pos­i­tion for the last four years....

Dr Fynn-Willem Lohe elec­ted as Interim Sec­ret­ary General

Oct 5, 2020 | EU, General information

Dr Fynn-Willem Lohe was elec­ted Interim Sec­ret­ary Gen­eral at the EFF Coun­cil meet­ing. He suc­ceeds Mr Heiko Lick­fett, who has served as Sec­ret­ary Gen­eral since early 2019 and steps back for health reas­ons. Dr Fynn-Willem Lohe has been work­ing for the...