55 companies closed between 2009 and 2012. This is the dramatic balance of the Confindustria study centre in his analysis of Italian manufacturing: "The number of manufacturing companies contracted by about 8,3%, joint effect of registrations and terminations".
A crisis, that of our manufacturing, which has very deep roots. As Luca Paolozzi, director of the Study Center explains, “We have lost 15% of production capacity and this means that to return to pre-crisis levels, a recovery in demand is not enough, but a good chunk of production capacity needs to be recreated”. To do this, clear and determined economic policies are needed.
From the beginning of the crisis to today, the Italian GDP has collapsed by 8,6%, while industrial production has recorded a vertical decline of 25%. Although it was a period in which almost all the more advanced countries recorded numerous slowdowns in production, the Italian trend was still "the worst in real terms” and today ” Italian manufacturing is in very critical conditions”.
Despite this, "at current prices and exchange rates, Italy still maintains the seventh position in the global ranking of industrial output, second in Europe only to Germany, which however boasts an almost double share".
Attachments: Industrial Scenarios.pdf
