In the third quarter, the foreign market orders of Italian textile machinery manufacturers fell by 31%, and the order index was 68.2 points. However, compared with the same period in 2019, the order index in the Italian domestic market increased by 20%, and the order index reached 112.6 points.

Alessandro Zucchi, president of ACIMIT, said: “In the traditional sense, the textile machinery industry is an export-driven industry. Therefore, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a heavy hit to the industry. In fact, more than 80% of our textile machinery is oriented to the export market. However, the current strict export restrictions due to the pandemic and the uncertainty of the time when business activities return to normalization will seriously affect the production activities of the entire industry.”