{"id":18495,"date":"2018-02-09T14:46:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xylon.it\/2018\/02\/09\/un-buon-2017-un-2018-promettente\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T09:54:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T08:54:37","slug":"un-buon-2017-un-2018-promettente","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xylon.it\/en\/2018\/02\/09\/un-buon-2017-un-2018-promettente\/","title":{"rendered":"Good 2017 and &#8220;promising&#8221; 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Time to draw a bala<\/strong><strong>nce for the wood technology industry, as well as an occasion to look into the future, encouraged by the figures of the market survey related to the fourth quarter 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n <strong>2017 PRELIMINARY BALANCE<\/strong><br \/>\n The barometer for woodworking and furniture industry machinery and plants keeps pointing to nice weather. This is clearly visible in the preliminary figures processed by the Studies Office of Acimall, the Confindustria member association representing industry companies. According to the figures published recently, in <strong>2017<\/strong> the industry achieved a production value of <strong>2.29 billion euro<\/strong>, up by 11.6 percent compared to the previous year. The <strong>export<\/strong> trend was excellent, amounting to <strong>1.6 billion euro<\/strong>, 7.1 percent more than in 2016. The top-ten destinations include the United States at number one, purchasing Italian woodworking technology for a total value of 165.5 million euro, followed by Germany (105.8 million), Poland (102.4 million) and Frances (92.5 million). The value of import also increased (<strong>199 million euro<\/strong>, plus 10 percent compared to the previous year).<br \/>\n The <strong>domestic market<\/strong> is also continuing to grow, driven by investment supporting measures introduced by the Italian government in recent years. Further progress is expected in the short and medium term: in 2016, Italian wood machinery \u201cconsumers\u201d invested 743 million euro, which increased to 894 (140 million more) in 2017, and everything suggests that in 2018 we could see the domestic market approach the one billion threshold, a new record after 900 million in 2001.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n <strong>FOURTH QUARTER 2017<\/strong><br \/>\n A bright future is also announced by the figures of the traditional <strong>market survey<\/strong> by Acimall\u2019s Studies Office: the <strong>fourth quarter 2017<\/strong> closed with a <strong>36.8 percent<\/strong> order increase compared to the same quarter in 2016 (the growth rate in the July-August term was <strong>42.9 percent<\/strong>, also compared to the same period of the previous year). This figure results from the trend of orders from <strong>abroad<\/strong>, up by 35.2 percent (51.5 percent in Q3) and the excellent development of Italian demand, achieving 49.5 percent growth over the October-December 2016 period (it was just 19.7 percent in the second quarter).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cItalian users are clearly going through a period of greater confidence which, combined with state incentives, is generating strong demand, exceeding even the most optimistic expectations\u201d<\/em>, said <strong>Dario Corbetta<\/strong>, Acimall director. <em>\u201cSuch results are not just satisfactory for technology vendors, but also anticipate an increasing competitiveness of the entire system: in the past few yea<\/em><em>rs, the wood and furniture industry had to face a very complex season, reducing all investments to a minimum.<\/em> <em>By acquiring more innovative and updated technology, the can now rely on more effecti<\/em><em>ve and performing tools, produce more and better with an Industry 4.0 approach, leveraging the connection between technology and enterprise management systems to restore their competitiveness and capacity to offer attractive products\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The analysis by the Confindustria member association of wood and wood-based materials machinery manufacturers shows more interesting trends, especially an extension of the <strong>orders book<\/strong> to 3.6 months (versus 3.4 in the previous quarter): such figure clearly indicates the impact that the trend of Q4 2017 will have on the year that has just begun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Prices <\/strong>as of January 1 show substantial stability, with a 1.1 percent increase, the same trend recorded in the July-September period. Another interesting element is the opinion of interviewees about the development of <strong>production<\/strong>, which is expected to expand by 50 percent, while the remaining 50 percent predict stability.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Employment<\/strong> will be unvaried according to 72 percent of the sample, growing according to 28 percent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n <strong>FORECAST S<\/strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20059 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.xylon.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ACIMALL-QIV-ENSITO-300x203.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xylon.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ACIMALL-QIV-ENSITO-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/www.xylon.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ACIMALL-QIV-ENSITO-768x518.png 768w, https:\/\/www.xylon.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ACIMALL-QIV-ENSITO-600x405.png 600w, https:\/\/www.xylon.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ACIMALL-QIV-ENSITO-500x338.png 500w, https:\/\/www.xylon.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ACIMALL-QIV-ENSITO.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong>URVEY<br \/>\n <\/strong>And what about the <strong>future<\/strong>? 72 percent of the sample believe that, in the short term, orders from <strong>abroad<\/strong> will increase further, while 28 percent don\u2019t expect significant variations (the balance is +72, versus +32 in the previous quarter). As to the <strong>domestic market<\/strong>, 39 percent expect a positive trend; according to 56 percent, stability will prevail, while 5 percent fear shrinking business (the balance is +34, it was just +5 three months ago).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to draw a balance for the wood technology industry, as well as an occasion to look into the future, encouraged by the figures of the market survey related to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Good 2017 and &#8220;promising&#8221; 2018 - Xylon.it online daily newspaper<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xylon.it\/en\/2018\/02\/09\/un-buon-2017-un-2018-promettente\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Good 2017 and &#8220;promising&#8221; 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