In 2016, Italian woodworking machinery production amounted to Euro 2,078 million, 11.5% more than Euro 1,864 in 2015. This percent variation is very similar to the result of 2015 versus 2014, when an 11.7% increase was recorded.

Acimall: Italian woodworking machinery production increased by 11.5% in 2016

In 2016, Italian woodworking machinery production amounted to Euro 2,078 million, 11.5% more than Euro 1,864 in 2015. This percent variation is very similar to the result of 2015 versus 2014, when an 11.7% increase was recorded, as Italian association of woodworking machinery manufacturers Acimall said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.

The growth of export was slower: in 2016, sales abroad amounted to Euro 1,486 million, 5.1% more than in 2015, when export had grown much stronger by 12.7% versus 2014.

These are positive signs, compared to a domestic market that – driven by public incentives and measures to support industrial activity and, more in general, consumption – in 2016 amounted to Euro 592 million, as much as 31.6% more than total sales on the domestic market in the previous year.

So, growth endures and we are finally benefiting from an economic trend supported not only by our extraordinary propensity to export, but also by a domestic market that is much more willing to invest in instrumental goods.

Preliminary 2016 results give reason for satisfaction and optimism, showing that the industry's record production levels, i.e. 2,159 million euro in 2007, are getting closer. However, it will be more and more important to monitor the big destination markets of “made in Italy” woodworking technology. First of all countries like Russia and Brazil, currently characterized by “complicated” economic, political and financial conditions, but also increasing competition from China in South-East Asia or stability in the United States, a customer that in recent years had increased its orders to Italian companies by 40%.

Acimall, the association that represents the most important Italian manufacturers of technology, automation, machinery, tools, and accessories for processing wood and wood-based products.