31/01/2024 – Italian index of machine tool orders
Orders of machine tools went down in the fourth quarter of 2023
The index of machine tool orders compiled by the Economic Studies Department+Business Culture Centre of Ucimu-Sistemi per Produrre showed a 31.1% fall compared to the period October-December 2022. The absolute value of the index stood at 92.1 (base year 2015=100).

“... there should be a breakthrough from the beginning of the second quarter", says Barbara Colombo, president of Ucimu-Sistemi per Produrre. © Ucimu