European Foundry Industry Sentiment

August 2025: 

The European Foundry Industry Sen­ti­ment Index (FISI) marks a decline in August 2025.

The European Foundry Industry Sen­ti­ment Index (FISI), pub­lished monthly by European Foundry Fed­er­a­tion, marked a decrease by 1.5 point in August 2025, reach­ing a level of  95.1 points.

There was a decline in the pro­duc­tion of cast iron cast­ings and cast­ings made of non-fer­rous metals. The only mater­ial that recor­ded a pos­it­ive trend in the last month was cast steel. As for expect­a­tions for the com­ing months, the research indic­ates a con­tinu­ation of this trend.

How­ever, situ­ation in the European foundry industry is always a reflec­tion of the gen­eral eco­nomic situ­ation in Europe. Some­times this hap­pens with a slight delay and recent stud­ies show that the Euro­zone in August 2025 recor­ded the first increase in new orders in 15 months.The Busi­ness Cli­mate Index (BCI), pub­lished by the European Com­mis­sion, reached ‑0.72 in August 2025, com­pared to the pre­vi­ous read­ing of ‑0.71 in July 2025. Eco­nomic activ­ity grows for the eighth month in a row. The Euro­zone Man­u­fac­tur­ing PMI in August 2025 accel­er­ated and reached a level of 50.5, which means an increase by 0.7 point from 49.8 in July 2025.

These may be signs of a slow recov­ery of European eco­nom­ies from a dif­fi­cult situation.As we look for­ward to future, hope­fully more pos­it­ive inform­a­tion from the European foundry industry, European Foundry Fed­er­a­tion con­stantly mon­it­ors the situ­ation on the European foundry market.

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 EFF —  European Foundry Fed­er­a­tion every month and is based on sur­vey responses of the European foundry industry. The EFF 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.

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.

EFF Con­tact:

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