(AGENPARL) – Rome, 5 June 2024
(AGENPARL) – Wed 05 June 2024 *PRESS RELEASE OF 5 JUNE 2024*
*The industrial production of Lucca, Pistoia and Prato in the 1st quarter of 2024:
minimal flexion, with critical points*
Overall, the manufacturing industry in the Lucca-Pistoia-Prato area records
in the 1st quarter of 2024 a production level with a minimal decline
compared to the same period in 2023: *-1.2%*, as attested by the
findings from the Confindustria Toscana Nord study centre. A result
better, therefore, than that reported in the 4th quarter of 2023, which I respect
at the same period of 2022 it closed with -3.4% also conditional
from the disastrous flood that hit important areas of the November
textile district of Prato and various territories of the Pistoia area. The negative data
of the Confindustria Toscana Nord territory in the 1st quarter of 2024 is also
significantly lower than the -4.6% reported in the same period by
national manufacturing.
However, the effects of the flood were inevitably felt as well
in the months immediately following, helping to contain performance
especially in fashion, which was responsible for the most negative results (-9.1%
compared to the 1st quarter of 2023). There are few other cases of a minus sign
compared to the same period of 2023: metallurgy (-7.3%), furniture
(-4.6%) and the processing of non-metallic materials (stone/glass/materials from
construction -3.8%), while the food sector showed a minimal decline (-0.6%); I am
the other sectors, on the other hand, are all positive, with modest values like those
of the production of machines (+1.3%), to other more net ones such as those of
paper (+3.1%) but above all means of transport (nautical and
railway +7.2%) and chemical-plastic-pharmaceutical (+10%).
“What we observe among the sectors is a very composite picture
our territory – comments the president of Confindustria Toscana
North *Daniel
Matteini* -. After all, each sector has its own story and its own major o
less concentration in the different areas determines its performance. That
which is certain is the value of our businesses: last year theirs
performances were, overall, significantly better than the data
Italian. The conclusion is clear: the companies of Lucca, Pistoia and Prato do
they are doing well in world markets, they invest and they know how to both seize and seize
the opportunities both effectively and in the best possible way, limiting the damage
critical situation. I am sure that this will happen in 2024 too
is proceeding amid concerns on the geopolitical front but also among
positive data on the growth – not sensational but noticeable – of trade
world economy, the continuation of the disinflation process and the good ones
expectations for monetary conditions at both European and European levels
American. However, the geopolitical factor remains a very strong brake, which
negatively affects the climate of confidence of businesses and consumers.” *(in
followed by further comment by Daniele Matteini on the Pistoia industry)*
*Lucca*
“In the first quarter of 2024 industrial production in the province of Lucca
grows compared to the same period of 2023, marking an overall +2%
– comments the vice president of Confindustria Toscana Nord *Tiziano
Pieretti* -. The performances of the stand out among all
chemical-plastic-pharmaceutical with a +16.9% mainly due to
particular sectors, but paper and paper converting are also positive with
+2.8%, nautical with +2% and, albeit to a minimal extent (+0.4%), also
manufacturing of machines, among which they occupy a particular space
those for the paper industry. Stone, on the other hand, is in negative territory (-6.9%), fashion
(-5.8%), metallurgy (-4%) and food (-3.2%). Looking at the trend
overall starting from the beginning of 2023 there is therefore a
progressive improvement in industrial production in Lucca: first three
2023 quarters negative, even if slightly, 4th quarter in balance and now,
with the 1st quarter of 2024, the return of the plus sign. A huge sign
vitality of the Lucca manufacturing sector, which in the 1st quarter of 2024 stands out
the trend of the Italian industry was over 6 and a half points, at -4.6%.
A consideration that also applies to paper and stationery, which is placed
in a national context at -3.3%. Many are counting on Lucca’s good results
factors, some of which are linked purely to concentration on
territory of certain sectors compared to others. But they have a strong impact
also the previous and ongoing strategic choices made by companies, which
have been able to equip themselves in the best possible way, with targeted and effective investments,
to optimize your performance.”
*Pistoia*
“The multi-sector industrial fabric of Pistoia manages to generate
compensation dynamics, so much so that, despite some performances
particularly negative, in the 1st quarter of 2024 we reached, compared to
same period of the previous year, to a substantially final figure
breakeven, +0.3% – adds the president of Confindustria Toscana Nord *Daniele
Matteini* -. Driving the system is the metalworking industry, whose further
growth, at +8.6%, remains mainly, but not exclusively, linked
to the transport sector and its related activities. Also positive
production of paper (+4.5%) and food (+2.9%). THE
negative data comes from chemical-plastics with -3%,
from furniture-mattresses with -4.7% but above all from fashion, which in
comparison with the same quarter of 2023 shows performance around
-10/11%. In detail, footwear recorded -9.8%, although there was an improvement
compared to the national data, -10.6%, textiles, -11.3%
clothing-knitwear. This is exactly the situation in the fashion sector, like this
also characterizing the province of Pistoia, which influences heavily
the final overall data; a sector, however, that believes in its own
resources and potential, as demonstrated by recent initiatives by
orientation such as the project “My future is in fashion. In mechanics,
especially linked to the transport sector, it also rewarded capacity
of teamwork of the companies aggregated under the Ditecfer umbrella,
which in recent years has become not only the main railway district
of Italy but also the most dynamic at European level. As president of
Ditecfer announces that top management will shortly be speaking in Pistoia
of politics, industry and research to celebrate 10 years
by the constitution.”
*Lawn*
“The picture that emerges from the data of the Confindustria Toscana Study Center
North for the 1st quarter of 2024 in comparison with the same quarter of
2023 is not unexpected but still severe – concludes the vice president of
Confindustria Northern Tuscany *Fabia Romagnoli* -. The total, in comparison
with the 1st quarter of the previous year (also positive, in line with
that of 2022), is at -7.8%. The greatest contribution to this result
negative derives from the -9.8% of textiles, which is also exactly in line with the
performance of the same sector at a national level; but they carry a net
also a minus sign for metalworking (-9%), which includes textile machinery, and
clothing-knitwear (-8.3%). Only in part can these results be achieved
be blamed for the consequences of the November flood, though
this has undoubtedly continued to make its effects felt even in the
following months and still cannot be said to be a completely closed chapter. The
problem of the trend of textiles at a national level, and even beyond
of the Italian borders, has various implications, and has been at the center of the recent
assembly of the Fashion System section. Of particular interest were i
data relating to high-end products, marked by an excess of
stocks that are being allocated on the market: in the meantime, the
orders inevitably stagnate. A painting, this, that has remained in place
be beyond the end of the 1st quarter, also influencing the one in
course.”
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