{"id":31870,"date":"2020-08-06T12:04:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T09:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/?p=31870"},"modified":"2020-08-06T12:13:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T09:13:56","slug":"italian-wood-and-furniture-technologythe-negative-trend-endures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/italian-wood-and-furniture-technologythe-negative-trend-endures.html","title":{"rendered":"ITALIAN WOOD AND FURNITURE TECHNOLOGY:THE NEGATIVE TREND ENDURES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>April-June 2020<\/strong>term has brought no surprising news, unfortunately, and the quarterly survey by the Studies office of Acimall \u2013 the Confindustria member association of wood-furniture technology companies \u2013 depicts a difficult situation:the<strong>drop in orders<\/strong>of woodworking machinery and tools is strong, in line with all the segments of mechanical engineering and the entire economy.Such result was inevitable, considering the lockdown of factories in April and the slow, gradual recovery of manufacturing operations in May.The month of June was &#8220;fully operational&#8221;, but it could not save the final result of the third quarter, deeply affected by massive layoffs and remote working, which inevitably changed the organization model of most companies.So, we can only wait for a demand rally that, according to several sources, is expected in the coming months, both from the domestic market and from abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s come to figures.the quarterly survey \u2013 carried out on a statistic sample that represents the entire industry \u2013 shows that the Italian industry of woodworking machinery and tools recorded <strong>a 39.2 percent reduction of orders <\/strong>compared to the same period of last year, resulting from minus 34.2 percent in international demand and an impressive 59.2 collapse in domestic demand.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>orders book<\/strong>extended across 2.4 months (versus 2.6 Q1) and, since the beginning of 2020, <strong>prices have increased <\/strong>by 0.5 percent (0.8 percent at the end of March 2020). <strong>Revenues<\/strong>decreased as well, by an average 29.8 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>quality survey <\/strong>speaks for itself and reflects the expectations of business owners:7 percent of the interviewees indicate a positive production trend (versus 12 percent in Q1), while 86 percent reported decreasing production (versus 69 percent in January-March); the remaining 7 percent indicate a stable situation (versus 19 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, <strong>employment<\/strong>is &#8220;holding on&#8221;:at the end of the first quarter 2020, 69 percent of companies expected a decrease in employment, now this figure has gone down to 47 percent, while 53 percent believe the employment trend will be stable (versus 75 percent three months ago).No one expects a positive trend for employment.<strong>Available stocks<\/strong>are stable according to 27 percent of the sample, while 20 percent expect growth and 19 percent reduction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The April-June 2020term has brought no surprising news, unfortunately, and the quarterly survey by the Studies office of Acimall \u2013 the Confindustria member association of wood-furniture technology companies \u2013 depicts a difficult situation:thedrop in ordersof woodworking machinery and tools is strong, in line with all the segments of mechanical engineering and the entire economy.Such result [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[255,254,2015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forest-products","category-headline-news","category-mdf-chipboard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/24795a2b-14af-4971-9011-f11d96637761.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}