Italian Textile Machinery: Signs of a recovery for orders in fourth quarter of 2011

摘要

Oroers for Italian textile machinery sector are back on the rise. Sandro Salmoiraghi, President of ACIMIT: "De- spite the economic crisis, our sector is showing signs of a recover}7 in sales after two negative quarters." Orders for Italian textile machinery manufacturers were on the rise again during the last quarter of 2011 after two quarters of fall down. The results were gathered by the quarterly survey conducted by ACIMIT, the Association of Italian textile machinery manufacturers. Overall orders for the period from October to December 2011 rose up 28% over the previous quarter, at a value of 90.2 points. The most significant increase regarded orders in foreign markets (+32%), whereas on the domestic market orders were up 15%.