European Foundry Industry Sentiment

Jul 26, 2022 | EU, General information

June 2022: Robust demand backs up in times of upheaval The European Foundry Industry Sen­ti­ment Indic­ator (FISI) increased by 0.4 points in June and reaches a value of 106.4 points. After the sig­ni­fic­ant drop due to Rus­si­a’s inva­sion of Ukraine, the busi­ness...

European Foundry Industry Sentiment

Jul 1, 2022 | EU, General information

May 2022: Sta­bil­iz­a­tion of European foundries in uncer­tain times The European Foundry Industry Sen­ti­ment Indic­ator (FISI) increased by 0.6 points in May and reaches a value of 106.1 points. After the highest loss since the out­break of corona pan­demic in...

Explod­ing energy prices and raw mater­i­als sup­ply dif­fi­culties require trans­par­ency across the value chain

Mar 14, 2022 | EU, General information

In deep empathy with the people in Ukraine and for the sake of the European peace order, EFF stands behind the sanc­tions against Rus­sia. How­ever, the con­sequences for the European eco­nomy can only be borne, if there is an open dia­logue between sup­pli­ers and...

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...

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....

Alarm­ing Raw Mater­i­als and Energy Costs Situation

Oct 20, 2021 | EU, General information

The cur­rent global devel­op­ments in the raw mater­i­als and energy mar­kets rep­res­ent a sig­ni­fic­ant threat to European foundry industry con­tinu­ity. Without imme­di­ate polit­ical action, the eco­nomic recov­ery and future of skilled indus­trial work­force is...