European Foundry Industry Sentiment

April 2025: 

European Foundry Industry Sen­ti­ment Indic­ator (FISI) hits the first obstacle in April 2025

After three months of slow but con­sec­ut­ive increase, in April 2025 The European Foundry Industry Sen­ti­ment Indic­ator (FISI), con­duc­ted monthly by the European Foundry Fed­er­a­tion, hits the first obstacle. Com­pared to the data from March 2025, the FISI decreased from 94.6 to 94.0.

While the cur­rent situ­ation in both fer­rous and non-fer­rous foundry industry is slightly bet­ter than a month before, the neg­at­ive expect­a­tions for the second half of 2025 con­trib­uted to achiev­ing this level of indicator.

In Apil 2025, the Busi­ness Cli­mate Indic­ator (BCI), an index pub­lished by European Com­mis­sion was at the level of ‑0,67, with the level of  — 0.73 in March 2025.

The Euro­zone Man­u­fac­tur­ing PMI rose to 49.4 in May 2025 from 49.0 in April, which was slightly above mar­ket expect­a­tions of 49.3, accord­ing to a pre­lim­in­ary estimate.

Pur­chas­ing Man­agers’ Index (PMI) in the Euro area is an indic­ator of the eco­nomic health of the man­u­fac­tur­ing sec­tor. It is based on such indic­at­ors as: new orders, invent­ory levels, pro­duc­tion, sup­plier deliv­er­ies and the employ­ment environment.

Cur­rent year has cre­ated mul­tiple chal­lenges: geo­pol­it­ical events, national elec­tions, con­stant and urgent need for an indus­trial trans­form­a­tion. Each of these factors has an imme­di­ate rever­ber­a­tion in every branch of European industry. Hop­ing that the decrease of FISI Index in April 2025 was just a single speed bump, EFF is keep­ing a close eye on the cur­rent situ­ation and the upcom­ing chal­lenges to be faced by the European foundry industry.

The FISI – European Foundry Industry Sen­ti­ment Indic­ator – is the earli­est avail­able com­pos­ite indic­ator provid­ing inform­a­tion on the European foundry industry per­form­ance. It is pub­lished by CAEF the European Foundry Asso­ci­ation every month and is based on sur­vey responses of the European foundry industry. The CAEF mem­bers are asked to give their assess­ment of the cur­rent busi­ness situ­ation in the foundry sec­tor and their expect­a­tions for the next six months.

The BCI – Busi­ness Cli­mate Indic­ator – is an indic­ator pub­lished by the European Com­mis­sion. The BCI eval­u­ates devel­op­ment con­di­tions of the man­u­fac­tur­ing sec­tor in the euro area every month and uses five bal­ances of opin­ion from industry sur­vey: pro­duc­tion trends, order books, export order books, stocks and pro­duc­tion expectations.

EFF Con­tact:

Wit­old Dobosz
Gen­eral Sec­ret­ariat
mail: info@eff-eu.org