A black year. And the worst could still come. The metalworking production collapses under the weight of the car sector, which comes to lose 22% in 2024. The worst figure in the sector, which in turn wins the negative primacy of the whole industry. The usual quarterly investigation by Federmeccanica photographed an increasingly falling trend. And that does not yet consider the duties: the detection between companies ended at the end of January and does not deal with the declarations of the Trump administration and the growing geopolitical tensions that could condition the global financial financial system “significant”. Italy included: despite the difficulty of calculating an impact of the duties on national exports, Federmeccanica is pressed, according to the most authoritative estimates it would be in the order of -0.2-03% on GDP. While the crisis in the metalworking sector does not stop. In the fourth quarter of 2024, the production contracted by 5.6%, bringing the annual data to a 4.2%reduction. A more critical situation than that of the whole industry that recorded a decline in the October-December 2.2% and 2.5% of the entire year. To contribute to the worsening is the negative evolution of the production of motor vehicles and trailers that marks an annual drop of 21.9%; The sectors of metallurgy (-2.5%per year), metal products (-4.1%) and mechanical machines and appliances (-3.8%) are also bad. The exports that ended at 277 billion, with a 3.8% contraction compared to 2023, much more marked than -0.4% recorded for total exports at national level. Towards Germany exports decreased by 10.4%, towards 11.4%.
«A very hard year closed that leaves a less heavy mark and 2025 opened with very worrying signals. The holding of our industrial system is at strong risk, both for structural critical issues and for possible upheavals of the global balances “, warns the president of Federmeccanica, Federico Visentin, who also warns on the next choices to make: it seems that” the car does not affect the armaments. But I would be attentive to those who think that the solution is to convert the car industry into the war in the “. by everyone, also of the unions. after the acronyms of the Fim-Cisl, Fiom-Cgil and Uilm-Uil metalworkers have proclaimed a new strike, of 8 hours at national level, on March 28 for the renewal of the contract, whose negotiation has run Help, we are always for dialogue. and we are always ready to sign », replies the general manager of Federmeccanica, Stefano Franchi.