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News Release from: UCIMU
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 02 May 2006
Italian machine tools orders show
increase
In the first quarter of 2006, the index of machine tool orders, elaborated by the Studies Dept of Ucimu-sistemi Per Produrre, has recorded a 17.7% increase..
In the first quarter of 2006, the index of machine tool orders, elaborated by the Studies Dept of Ucimu-sistemi Per Produrre, has recorded a 17.7% increase, compared with the value registered in the same period of 2005, reaching an absolute value of 97.3 (base 2000=100) This outcome has been mostly determined by the positive trend of orders received from the foreign markets, registering a 26.8% growth (in the period January-March 2006) versus the first quarter of the previous year
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 30 Mar 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The absolute value of the index reached 123.1 points, keeping up with the performances of the best quarters of the last years.
Positive results have also been attained in the domestic market, where orders increased by 5.3% compared with the value of the first quarter of 2005.
This issue is thus extending the positive trend registered by the manufacturers in the domestic market from the end of 2005.
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Nevertheless, the absolute index, attaining 73.1 points, is attesting a persistent weakness of the domestic propensity to investments.
"Such results - stated Alberto Tacchella, President of Ucimu-sistemi Per Produrre, the Italian Machine Tools, Robots and Automation Manufacturers' Association are emphasizing, on one hand, the dynamism of foreign markets and, on the other hand, a phase of partial recovery of instrumental goods investments by Italian enterprises".
"The positive performance of orders received from the domestic market between the end of 2005 and the beginning of the current year - goes on Mr.Tacchella - is surely an encouraging sign.
But, to consider this as a definitive recovery of the domestic demand, it is necessary to see the results of the second quarter of 2006.
The next edition of BI-MU, the most important exhibition of the sector scheduled to take place in Milan next October, could play a decisive role for the final confirmation of a real and important re-launching of the domestic market".
"Nevertheless, the system-country must support this starting recovery.
We are troubled about the possibility that the interests of politics and the deadlock being experienced by the country may, once again, freeze the re-launching that the industry of the sector seems to have started.
This would imply serious consequences for the competitiveness of the whole manufacturing industry".
"The results achieved abroad - goes on Alberto Tacchella - are confirming the capacity of Italian manufacturers to maintain the laboriously gained market shares and in some cases, even to improve them by consolidating their own presence in the foreign markets.
In this perspective, fiscal neutrality for the aggregation processes among enterprises having common targets is an essential instrument to overcome the size limit of our enterprises.
Their size limit is an obstacle to the consolidation of the internationalization and innovation process of the sector".
""Moreover, always to support the high propensity to export characterizing the Italian manufacturing industry of production systems, - says Mr Tacchella - we want to point out, once more, the necessity of the abatement of the IRAP tax on the personnel for a percentage rate equal to the export-production ratio attained by the enterprise".
On the other hand, on the domestic front the liberalization of depreciation allowances for instrumental goods is of fundamental importance.
This is a measure that, though specifically destined for the sector of production systems, could bring a "cascade" relief to the whole industrial system of the country.
"The actions, especially if concentrated in a short period - concludes the President of Ucimu-sistemi Per Produrre - must not aim at undifferentiated distributions of resources which are anyway scarce, but they must selectively help those enterprises that produce and export".
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