Italian construction equipment market up in 2019
Looking at the foreign trade, Italian export of construction equipment between January and October 2019 reached ?2.5 billion, stable compared to last year (+1 per cent). According to the last Samoter Outlook carried by Prometeia, it grew the export of concrete equipment (+13.8 per cent) and of crushing and screening machines (+7.8 per cent).
Exports were stable for drilling equipment (+1.1 per cent) and earthmoving machines (-0.7 per cent), but were down for tower cranes (-10 per cent) and road machines (-15 per cent) while imports saw a double-digit growth (+13 per cent), reaching ?0.92 billion. Trade balance surplus amounts to ?1.5 billion, even if loss 4.9 per cent compared to that of 2018