German industry orders plummet in January with oil prices adding to pain
Germany’s industrial sector has started weakly into the New Year.
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German industry group says country ‘permanently damaged’ as business venue
The German industry association for the metals and electronics sector, Gesamtmetall, or the Federation of German Employers' Associations in the Metal and Electrical…
German steel output plunges to 2009-crisis lows
Germany’s steel sector has recorded its bleakest performance in more than 15 years, with crude steel production in 2025 falling to just 34.1 million tonnes.
Large company bankruptcies skyrocket in Germany
The number of bankruptcy cases involving big companies in Germany sharply rose in 2025.
French court liquidates appliance giant Brandt, 700 jobs to go
The French court pulled the plug on Brandt, the century-old appliance maker once seen as a pillar of national industry.
Germany as ‘business location in free fall,’ industry association warns
The Federation of German Industries (BDI), one of Germany’s major business associations, has warned the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz that the economy…
Energy-hungry European industries ‘dying’, top bank chief warns
Energy-hungry industries Europe are effectively "dying" as rising energy prices, the flood of cheap goods from China and the side effects of climate policies make…
Two in five German industrial companies plan job cuts in 2026
Sentiment in Germany’s industrial sector is at rock bottom with more than 40 per cent of companies planning to reduce their workforce in the coming year.
Why the West’s war on industry has become its greatest weakness
The post-war order of free trade is dying before our eyes—and perhaps that's the best thing that could happen to the West.
German industrial output again drops steeply, “another severe blow to the economy”
August saw the sharpest decline in German industrial production since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine in 2022.
Belgium, Germany hit hardest by huge drop in chemicals industry activity in EU
Belgium and Germany have borne the brunt of a sharp downturn in Europe’s chemicals industry. The sector has been shrinking fast;
China widens industrial lead over Europe but figures not straightforward
China has pulled ahead of Europe in terms of factory output but the numbers, and what they mean, were not as straightforward as they may look.
UK multinational’s boss warns half of Antwerp industry set to vanish
Jim Ratcliffe, the owner of UK multinational chemicals and energy giant INEOS, has warned that half of the industry located in Antwerp, Europe's second-largest port,…
German industrial giant Thyssenkrupp to be ‘virtually dissolved’
Germany's iconic industrial group Thyssenkrupp will be broken up and turned into a financial holding no longer producing steel.
Situation ‘alarming’: Germany lost 120,000 jobs in manufacturing sector in 2024
In its latest job report on March 31, Germany's Federal Employment Agency (BA), announced that German industry lost around 120,000 jobs in the last 12 months.
Industrial carnage: German giant Siemens to shed more than 6,000 jobs
Siemens, one of Germany’s biggest industrial conglomerates, has announced a tough cost-cutting programme that would see 5,600 jobs disappear in its Digital Industries…
Germany to see weakest growth of all industrialised countries in 2025, says OECD
Germany, traditionally the engine of the European economy, will have the weakest growth of all industrialised countries in 2025, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation…
Steel giant ArcelorMittal backs out of ‘green’ projects with industry’s future at risk
Luxembourg-based multinational steel manufacturer ArcelorMittal said it was delaying big investment programmes in Europe, citing uncertainties over European Union…
EU deindustrialisation continues, drives down economic outlook
The European Union has had its economic outlook downgraded for 2025 as problems related to the continent's deindustrialisation continue.
Sweden’s EV battery Northvolt lays off 840 workers as financial pressures bite
Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt, which specialises in lithium-ion technology for electric vehicles, has announced it will lay off 840 people as it continues…
Eurozone factory activity sees fastest-ever decline in September
Manufacturing activity across the Eurozone declined at its fastest pace this year in September as demand waned sharply despite factories cutting their prices, a…
German manufacturing sentiment at ‘lowest level since June 2020’
Pessimism within the German manufacturing sector has hit its lowest level since June 2020, a report from a major economic research institution has found.
Shutting down UK blast furnaces means outsourcing carbon emissions to China
Consider the misguided environmental policies that the British government is currently pursuing.
German Chamber of Commerce sees ‘alarming signs of gradual deindustrialisation’
Germany is showing worrying levels of gradual deindustrialization, a new survey has found.
Germany’s industry chiefs sound alarm as economy tanks
Industry executives have warned that Germany has entered a phase of “de-growth” dominated by nosediving industrial production.