January 2018 | Aluminium Weekly Market Tracker
European manufacturing ends 2017 on a buoyant note: European Market Analysis - Flat Rolled Products
To stay one step ahead German manufacturers have to pay minute detail when it comes to cost and sometimes this means importing non-EU manufactured plate and sheet to produce goods to high end specification, while keeping manufacturing costs under control.
After a sluggish few years the eurozone has finally seen its manufacturing activity getting back onto a strong footing. In fact statistics show that factories in the region ended 2017 at their strongest pace in over 20 years. The manufacturing PMI for the Eurozone hit 60.6 in December 2017, up from 60.1 in November, to hit the highest level since the survey commenced in June 1997. The factory output index which includes services, showed an even stronger reading at 62.2, up from 61.0 in November, to reach its highest...
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