ROMA (ITALPRESS) – In 2025 43.12% of industrial SMEs recorded an increase in the percentage of production. The growth in the range between 1% and 10% was 31.01% of the sample. However, about a third (28.75%) has found a contraction of production, in the face of a 28,13% of the enterprises that maintained stable production, without variations regarding the second half of 2024. This is what emerges from the conjunctural analysis of 2025 by Confapi. The turnover levels of 2025 show a marked unevenness. 42.47% of companies recorded an increase in turnover, mainly concentrated in growth between 1% and 10% (28.18%). The 28.97% of the companies suffered a decrease in turnover and 28,57%, maintained stable turnover without changes compared to the previous period. As regards orders, 41,97% of respondents recorded an increase over 2024 in the past year, with 28,71% reporting an increase between 1% and 10%. On the other hand, 28.11% of the companies registered a contraction of the orders. Finally, 29.92% did not detect changes in comparison with the previous reference period.
Towing the economy in 2025 was definitely the internal market. 41.12% declare that they have increased their turnover in national borders and 29.66% declare that they have increased by 10%. 21.04% declared that they had increased the share of total turnover thanks to EU foreign trade while 16.44% with the extra EU. The most significant percentages of foreign trade in the EU and abroad are given by the heading “no significant change” respectively indicated with 66.19% and 70.79%. 42% of companies exported directly, while 14% is present on foreign markets indirect ways. The reference markets are concentrated on the European Union (71%). Outside the EU, the presence is still limited: only 16% work in other European countries and even smaller quotas are recorded in North America (11%) and Middle East (9%), while other non-EU markets remain marginal. 64.2% of companies declare that they have invested, albeit with different intensity: 32.6% with significant interventions oriented towards growth, innovation and modernization, and 31.6% with more limited investments to maintain competitiveness and efficiency. 36.88% of enterprises have invested intangible, and among them 54.33% in training. The 25.77% of the companies declare that they have invested in twin transitions.
Among those who did not make investments 19.62% reported excessive bureaucracy in the presentation of projects. 44.3% of companies indicate tax credit as the most effective measure for such interventions. 80.97% of companies declare that the conditions of access to credit in 2025 remained substantially unchanged and 55.2% of companies did not apply for new loans.
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