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Market<br />
The Aluminium Market in Italy<br />
Data regarding the production<br />
and use of aluminium in Italy<br />
in 2015 were presented during<br />
Centroal’s annual assembly.<br />
The balance is positive with a<br />
growth in use of 4.8%, rolled<br />
products are doing well, foundry<br />
alloys are decreasing slightly and<br />
extruded products give some<br />
signs of recovery<br />
(Photo: courtesy EAFA,<br />
worldaluminium.org)<br />
by Orazio Zoccolan, Secretary, Centroal<br />
TheannualassemblyofCentroal,Assomet’saluminium<br />
group, that took place in Milan on May 5th, was the occasion<br />
for a presentation of the conclusive data for<br />
2015 concerning the production and use of aluminium<br />
and alloys in Italy. All things considered, in a global economic<br />
context characterised by a slow and uncertain recovery,<br />
the sector seems to be picking up confidence with a small but<br />
clear increase in the total use of metal in Italy that reached<br />
1,898,000 tons, with respect to the 2014 figure of 1,811,200<br />
tons (figure 1). The trend for the use of aluminium in this<br />
country therefore seems more encouraging than the average<br />
for Europe, where the increase in 2015 of the use of<br />
metal in all its forms was just above 1.5% with respect to<br />
the previous year. As a global reference datum, it should be<br />
noted that the worldwide production of primary aluminium<br />
addeduptoover57milliontonsin2015,againstademand<br />
of 56 million, while in 2014 production and use were both<br />
just over 54 million tons.<br />
TheItalianmarketforextruded<br />
aluminium products<br />
The statistical scenario regarding semi-finished products,<br />
presented during the Centroal assembly by Andrea Matera<br />
from Assomet’s research centre, pointed out the different<br />
trends in the industry’s segments. Regarding extruded<br />
products, in 2015 there was a moderate upswing<br />
of the segment, especially in the second part of the year,<br />
that seems to be confirmed the trend in the first months<br />
of<strong>2016</strong>.Thediagraminfigure2showstheprogressfrom<br />
2008 to this date in the production, import, export and use<br />
of profiles in Italy. Total production reached 539,000 tons<br />
in2015,a0.1%increasewithrespectto2014,totalimports<br />
reached 73,000 tons and exports 201,700 tons, both values<br />
being slightly lower than in 2014.<br />
Thetotaluseofextrudedproductsin2015was410,500tons,<br />
that compared to 2014 means a mild increase of 1% (the previous<br />
year’s figure was 406,300 tons). It should however be<br />
notedthatin2008domesticconsumptionwas686,300tons,<br />
and since then demand shrank by over 40%; the positive aspect<br />
of a trend on the increase must therefore be appreciated,<br />
but the strong penalization of this segment is confirmed,<br />
due to the continued crisis of the building and construction<br />
segment, accompanies this year by a marked setback of the<br />
mechanics industry. In the graph in figure 3 it can be seen<br />
thatduringthepastthreeyearstheproductionofextrudedproductsinItalywasstableandsettledaroundfigures<br />
considerably lower than in previous years. The fourth term<br />
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