Positive year for Italian textile machinery manufacturers
15/02/2017
Overseas orders were up 5% year-on-year, while domestic orders increased 16% compared to the same period of 2015.
For the whole of 2016, orders were up 4%, with domestic sales rising 14% and overseas sales increasing 3%.
“The data for the index for the last quarter of 2016 confirm a year we can certainly define as positive, with an overall growing orders index,” said Raffaella Carabelli, president of ACIMIT.
She added that Italian textile machinery manufacturers were seeing a growth in sales to Bangladesh and Pakistan, as well as to North America and Europe.
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