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The Metalworking Industry
plays a significant role in all industrial
countries, in terms of the number of people it employs,
its value and its contribution to international trade,
as well as for its strategic role.
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The
machinery and equipment produced for the market by the
metalworking industry accounts
for the totality of investment goods, which
results in the wide-spreading of technological innovation
to all industrial branches and to others sectors of the
economy. |
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Industrial
development and the success in maintaining
a competitive level in the industrial field largely depend
on the ability of the metalworking industry to grow and
to implement a policy of continuous innovation. This is
all the more so in countries like Italy, essentially transformers,
which base their development on the ability to compete
and export. |
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The metalworking industry,
with its production of machinery and equipment, provides
100% of the goods which are classified by the National
Statistics Institute as fixed assets. The metalworking
industry also contributes more than 2/3 of the goods
which are classified as high-technology products, on
the basis of research and development expenditure involved.
Furthermore, over 20% of the total production of the
metalworking industry can be classified as high-technology
products. |
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Overall,
the products manufactured by the metalworking industry
are 40% capital investment goods, 45% intermediate goods
and 15% durable consumer goods. |
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 Companies
and Employment |
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Production
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