Healthy growth for Italy's cleaning sector

21st of September 2018
Healthy growth for Italy's cleaning sector

Anna Garbagna in Italy reports for ECJ on latest statistics for the professional cleaning market.

The sector is healthy, growing in Italy as well as abroad: that is the picture of the professional cleaning sector according to the regular annual survey carried out by AfidampFAB, the Association of Italian manufacturers of Machines, Products and Tools for Professional Cleaning and Environmental Hygiene.

This positive trend showed a total turnover of €1,732,270,093 -  particularly thanks to the strong growth  in turnover of machine producers (six per cent increase) and the growth by 11 per cent of producers of other products (including soap dispensers, air fresheners, hand dryers, batteries and battery chargers, brushes and rotating pads for example).

Data from other industry sectors are also positive: +15 per cent for accessories and machine spare parts, +four per cent for fibres and cloths, +four per cent for paper products, +two per cent for equipment. The only sector with a slight decrease was chemical industries with -0.4 per cent.

The data has therefore confirmed the positive trend which saw the whole sector on the rise by seven per cent over the two year period 2015-2016. Specifically, in 2017 the Italian market recorded a six per cent increase compared to the previous year while data relating to export show a five per cent  increase with a total turnover of €907,953,616. Export  accounted for 52 per cent of the total turnover with Europe, Asia and the Middle East as target markets.

The sector scoring the highest export figures was the machine sector (40 per cent of the turnover with seven per cent growth compared to the previous year), followed by paper with 33 per cent, other products with 11 per cent (soap dispensers and air fresheners, hand dryers, batteries and battery chargers, brushes and pads), accessories and machine spare parts with six per cent and equipment with five per cent. Chemical products, historically intended for the internal market, represented four per cent of total export in 2017 again.

The machine sector in 2017 was once again the sector with greatest international presence, with 65 per cent of its turnover going to foreign markets.

With six per cent growth compared to 2016 and total turnover of €824,326,477, the home market is expanding.

Within Italy, top of the league table is the paper market which represents 34 per cent of total turnover, followed by machines with 23 per cent. In third place is the chemical products sector with 20 per cent, other products with 12 per cent, accessories and machine spare parts with  five per cent and equipment, fibres and cloths with three per cent.

As data and relevant figures show for each part of the sector, it is a very healthy market.  To sum up, overall this is a world of companies which are active in all sectors of the cleaning industry and which are generating revenues and creating jobs.

 

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