According to data Italian ceramic machinery and equipment manufacturers association published in 2012 total global sales of Italian ceramic machine equipment for 1.667 billion euros, compared with 2011 decreased by 4.4%. Among them, exports of 1.288 billion euros, down 7.4%, but exports still account for a large proportion, up to 77.3% of total turnover.

Italian ceramic machine technology remains a world-leading position, its ceramic machine equipment business with consistently high standards of world-renowned brand. It is reported that in 2011 the Italian ceramic machine equipment sales growth of 26.2%, the overall performance has been restored to the 2008 level before the economic crisis.

Last year, the Italian ceramic machinery main export areas for the EU, the Middle East and other parts of Asia (including India, Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand), were 17.2% of sales 16.2% and 16.5% of the total; closely followed by Eastern Europe, Africa (especially North Africa), the Americas and China markets.

The early Italian domestic ceramic machine market is heating up sign, sales rose 7.3 percent last year, totaling 379 million euros, although the absolute value is still far below the level before the financial crisis in 2008 (compared with 2008 down 22.6%), but this also the Italian domestic market for two consecutive years to maintain a good momentum of growth.

In 2012 the number of Italian ceramic companies remains unchanged at 150, but the total number of employees dropped to about 6,000.

President of the Italian ceramic machinery and equipment manufacturers association Tarot Qi Fabio (Fabio Tarozzi), said, "Looking back on 2012, the overall performance is gratifying, for 2013 we are cautiously optimistic. Despite months of 2013, global Several major downturn in the overall market, but the subsequent market performance is very active, which we forecast turnover this year will be maintained at the same level in 2012.