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...

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...

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...

Third EFF sur­vey: con­sist­ent pic­ture of Covid-19 impact

Sep 24, 2020 | EU, General information

While pro­duc­tion in the first half of 2020 decreased by an unweighted aver­age of around 32% com­pared with the same period last year, the aver­age drop in orders across Europe is 39%. Capa­city util­isa­tion is there­fore cur­rently at a rel­at­ively low level of...

The Role of the European Foundry Industry for the Auto­mot­ive Sec­tor dur­ing COVID-19

Jun 29, 2020 | EU, General information

EFF calls for a stim­u­la­tion of demand while com­ply­ing with the CO2-emis­sion goals of the EU Green Deal COVID-19 remains not only a ser­i­ous pan­demic threat­en­ing per­sonal health but has fur­ther­more dragged Europe into an unpre­ced­en­ted reces­sion. While...