Zinc casting alloys (Zamak, ZA)

EU-27 trade, 2005–2025

EU-27 imports and exports – with non-EU countries or within the EU (arrivals reported by EU countries and their dispatches to other EU countries) – in tonnes, euro or as unit value; the current year – monthly data (incomplete year).

extra-EU imports extra-EU exports 2026* – data for 2026-01/2026-08 (incomplete year, hollow marker, no line)

Source: Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (class CN8 codes, EU-27); compiled by ai-waw.com – products dataset 2.1.
Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (annual data) – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-02 (period 2026)
Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (monthly data) – latest data: 2026-08 (intra-EU: 2026-07); retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2026-11-13 (period 2026-09)

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Figure data (table)

EU-27 trade – Zinc casting alloys (Zamak, ZA) – extra-EU, tonnes of product mass

Year	extra-EU imports	extra-EU exports	Balance
2005	32,037	22,931	−9,105
2006	45,273	35,565	−9,708
2007	47,930	26,917	−21,013
2008	36,997	28,310	−8,688
2009	15,964	20,454	4,490
2010	22,083	44,623	22,540
2011	30,649	26,215	−4,434
2012	44,567	31,474	−13,093
2013	38,365	55,078	16,712
2014	45,196	99,541	54,345
2015	47,286	69,593	22,307
2016	50,138	75,756	25,618
2017	61,841	81,249	19,409
2018	56,089	98,813	42,724
2019	56,541	108,014	51,473
2020	41,165	114,748	73,583
2021	30,073	124,450	94,376
2022	39,981	99,435	59,454
2023	39,970	62,772	22,802
2024	40,143	90,194	50,050
2025	44,675	102,126	57,452
2026 2026-01/2026-08	28,567	66,676	38,108

tonnes of product mass. Balance = exports − imports.

PRODCOM code group balance in the EU-27, 2025

EU-27 sold production (PRODCOM) and extra-EU imports make up supply; supply is apparent consumption plus extra-EU exports. Band widths are proportional to tonnes (one scale); intra-EU trade is a loop – it moves products between EU countries and does not change the EU-27 balance.

Source: Eurostat, PRODCOM DS-059358 and DS-059367, Comext DS-045409; compiled by ai-waw.com – products dataset 2.1. Production, imports, exports and apparent consumption – within PRODCOM code 24.43.12.50 (all classes of the code and the CN codes of its scope); intra-EU trade – the class CN codes.
Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (annual data) – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-02 (period 2026)
Eurostat, PRODCOM DS-059358, DS-059367 – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-07 (period 2026)

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Figure data (table)

EU-27 balance – PRODCOM group 24.43.12.50 (2 classes, including Zinc casting alloys (Zamak, ZA)), 2025

Balance item	Mass (t)
EU-27 sold production (code group)	823,403
Extra-EU imports (code group)	44,675
EU-27 supply (code group)	868,077
Extra-EU exports (code group)	102,126
Apparent consumption (code group)	765,951
Intra-EU trade (class)	350,391

PRODCOM production and apparent consumption

EU-27 sold production according to PRODCOM (codes 24.43.12.50) and apparent consumption = production + extra-EU imports − extra-EU exports. Eurostat flags above the bars: E – estimate, R – rounded value; C – confidential value (no bar, not filled in). The PRODCOM code also covers classes: Zinc galvanizing alloys (ZnAl, ZnNi, ZnAlMg) .

EU-27 sold production (t) Eurostat estimate (E) apparent consumption (t) E – Eurostat estimate, R – rounded, C – confidential (no bar), “–” – gap ; X – reliability check: EU-27 total recalculated without countries with an unreliable value (no bar – no figure)

Source: Eurostat, PRODCOM DS-059358 and DS-059367 (sold production), Comext DS-045409 (trade for apparent consumption); compiled by ai-waw.com – products dataset 2.1. Scope of PRODCOM code 24.43.12.50 (classes: Zinc casting alloys (Zamak, ZA), Zinc galvanizing alloys (ZnAl, ZnNi, ZnAlMg)). Sold production (excluding production for own use). Years without figures – no EU-27 production (confidentiality, no code, unreliable value – X) or an ambiguous CN code.
Eurostat, PRODCOM DS-059358, DS-059367 – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-07 (period 2026)

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Figure data (table)

EU-27 sold production and apparent consumption – PRODCOM group 24.43.12.50 (2 classes, including Zinc casting alloys (Zamak, ZA)), 2005–2025

Year	Sold production (t)	Quantity flag	Value (EUR)	Apparent consumption (t)
2005	gap		–	–
2006	739,493		1,829,420,794	749,201
2007	678,824		1,934,277,665	699,837
2008	665,800		1,212,416,652	674,487
2009	396,466		556,670,855	391,976
2010	506,028		861,931,901	483,488
2011	484,739		820,671,837	489,173
2012	583,229		830,704,609	596,322
2013	596,415		811,475,245	579,703
2014	550,351		809,351,885	496,006
2015	609,500		1,017,712,682	587,193
2016	699,554		1,164,050,980	673,935
2017	734,808		1,684,497,380	715,400
2018	724,665		1,652,703,620	681,941
2019	739,903	R	1,482,051,758	688,430
2020	643,980	RX	1,200,000,000	570,397
2021	918,633	X	1,451,043,622	824,257
2022	882,877	E	1,838,863,746	823,423
2023	828,203		1,549,091,949	805,401
2024	741,007		1,446,656,937	690,957
2025	823,403		1,349,818,033	765,951

EU-27 countries, 2025

Mass balance of a country (exports − imports, all partners, including other EU countries) or the country share of exports or imports of the 27 EU countries. Plants of the class on a map – figure 8.

export surplus ≥ 35.5 thousand texport surplus 8,874 t–35.5 thousand texport surplus < 8,874 tbalance ≈ 0import surplus < 8,874 timport surplus 8,874 t–35.5 thousand timport surplus ≥ 35.5 thousand tnon-EU countries

Source: Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (class CN8 codes, EU-27); compiled by ai-waw.com – products dataset 2.1. Trade of EU-27 countries with all partners (WORLD); share – of the 27-country total. Balance thresholds – 10% and 40% of the largest absolute balance. The country map uses the declarations of the country itself (its exports and imports), the flow map – import declarations of the partners (country of consignment); differences are asymmetries of intra-EU trade statistics (transit, triangular trade, confidentiality). Base map: Natural Earth (public domain), Lambert conformal conic projection.
Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (annual data) – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-02 (period 2026)

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Figure data (table)

EU-27 countries in the trade of the class – Zinc casting alloys (Zamak, ZA), 2025

Country	Imports (t)	Exports (t)	Balance (t)	Share of EU-27 imports (%)	Share of EU-27 exports (%)	Intra-EU dispatches according to partner declarations (t)
Spain	9,750	83,207	+73.5 thousand t	2.5	29.2	22,215
Belgium ‡	38,995	88,419	+49.4 thousand t	9.9	31.1	135,023
Slovakia	673	11,888	+11.2 thousand t	0.2	4.2	8,488
Bulgaria	38	119	+81.3 t	0.0	0.0	1,583
Luxembourg ‡	6	27	+20.9 t	0.0	0.0	5,222
Malta	2	0	−2.2 t	0.0	0.0	1
Ireland	9	0	−9.1 t	0.0	0.0	0
Cyprus	38	0	−37.5 t	0.0	0.0	0
Estonia	76	28	−48.4 t	0.0	0.0	460
Latvia	61	0	−60.9 t	0.0	0.0	27
Netherlands	46,004	45,883	−120 t	11.6	16.1	83,710
Denmark	337	32	−305 t	0.1	0.0	70
Croatia	390	2	−388 t	0.1	0.0	12
Lithuania	679	0	−679 t	0.2	0.0	0
Greece	1,269	127	−1,142 t	0.3	0.0	79
Finland ‡	1,282	22	−1,260 t	0.3	0.0	7,371
Romania	2,836	99	−2,737 t	0.7	0.0	4
Hungary	3,447	150	−3,297 t	0.9	0.1	4
Portugal	4,859	9	−4,850 t	1.2	0.0	118
Slovenia	6,124	1,215	−4,909 t	1.6	0.4	1,149
Sweden ‡	10,332	4	−10.3 thousand t	2.6	0.0	26,046
Czechia	10,451	22	−10.4 thousand t	2.7	0.0	289
Poland	16,356	3,095	−13.3 thousand t	4.1	1.1	3,262
France	26,323	9,481	−16.8 thousand t	6.7	3.3	7,448
Austria	23,006	2,919	−20.1 thousand t	5.8	1.0	4,208
Germany ‡	92,422	27,378	−65.0 thousand t	23.4	9.6	38,712
Italy	99,302	10,563	−88.7 thousand t	25.1	3.7	4,891

‡ dispatches in the import declarations of partners more than twice the own exports of the country (difference > 2 thousand t) – an asymmetry of intra-EU trade statistics

Intra-EU flows, 2025

Arcs run from the country of consignment to the country of destination (arrivals reported by an EU country by country of consignment); width proportional to the square root of mass.

Arc: consignment → destination20.0 thousand t5,000 t1,000 t

Source: Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (class CN8 codes, EU-27); compiled by ai-waw.com – products dataset 2.1. Arrivals of EU countries by country of consignment (EU-27 partners); pairs sorted by mass, descending. Arc width – proportional to the square root of mass (reference widths in the legend). The country map uses the declarations of the country itself (its exports and imports), the flow map – import declarations of the partners (country of consignment); differences are asymmetries of intra-EU trade statistics (transit, triangular trade, confidentiality). Base map: Natural Earth (public domain), Lambert conformal conic projection.
Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (annual data) – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-02 (period 2026)

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Figure data (table)

Intra-EU flows – Zinc casting alloys (Zamak, ZA), 2025

Flow (consignment → destination)	Mass (t)	Value (EUR)
Belgium → Germany	47,078	130,823,548
Belgium → Italy	36,070	104,469,933
Netherlands → Germany	33,037	95,569,509
Germany → Italy	24,495	71,055,804
Netherlands → Belgium	23,603	66,152,522
Netherlands → Italy	18,973	45,642,230
Belgium → Austria	16,372	48,390,846
Sweden → Belgium	14,356	40,486,808
Spain → Italy	13,745	30,993,156
Belgium → France	10,961	33,578,435
Belgium → Spain	7,806	24,937,156
Sweden → France	6,657	18,681,993
Spain → Netherlands	6,638	13,800,801
Belgium → Poland	5,703	16,905,133
Netherlands → France	5,342	17,508,433
Germany → Austria	5,221	15,408,756
Germany → Poland	5,095	16,022,845
France → Germany	4,045	11,633,300
Slovakia → Czechia	3,799	11,364,679
Sweden → Germany	3,476	9,902,162
Finland → Poland	3,475	10,125,360
Belgium → Czechia	2,954	9,045,721
Luxembourg → Netherlands	2,730	7,621,417
Belgium → Slovenia	2,654	7,886,881
Finland → Germany	2,297	6,306,312
Poland → Romania	2,119	5,044,851
Germany → Czechia	2,118	6,580,674
Belgium → Sweden	1,979	6,123,117
Italy → Slovenia	1,884	5,703,564
Belgium → Portugal	1,823	5,703,374
Spain → Portugal	1,809	5,340,957
France → Italy	1,667	5,023,951
Italy → Germany	1,492	3,928,861
Slovakia → Hungary	1,469	3,787,507
Luxembourg → France	1,462	4,473,875
Slovakia → Slovenia	1,310	4,274,920
Austria → Czechia	1,219	2,641,034
Austria → Hungary	1,218	3,774,303
Slovenia → Italy	1,115	3,275,924
Netherlands → Spain	1,062	3,383,335
Bulgaria → Italy	1,025	3,193,289
Slovakia → Poland	1,021	3,075,810
Germany → France	944	2,345,164

Non-EU partners, 2025

The ten largest non-EU suppliers and customers; arrows from the partner to the EU (imports) or from the EU to the partner (exports), width proportional to the square root of mass.

1. Norway · 43.1 thousand t
2. South Korea* · 503 t
3. Brazil* · 248 t
4. United Kingdom · 221 t
5. Tunisia* · 150 t
6. Türkiye · 143 t
7. United States* · 98.7 t
8. Mexico* · 95.3 t
9. China* · 41.7 t
10. Qatar* · 15.5 t

Arrow from/to the EU-27 point (notional centre of the EU area); number – rank and mass20.0 thousand t5,000 t1,000 t * country outside the frame – notional point on the map edge in the direction from the EU; arrow direction notional

Source: Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (class CN8 codes, EU-27); compiled by ai-waw.com – products dataset 2.1. Shares and concentration – of extra-EU trade mass (including unspecified partners). Base map: Natural Earth (public domain), Lambert conformal conic projection.
Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (annual data) – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-02 (period 2026)

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Figure data (table)

EU-27 imports by country of origin – Zinc casting alloys (Zamak, ZA), 2025

#	Country	Mass (t)	Value (EUR)	Share (%)
1	Norway	43,129	124,600,107	96.5
2	South Korea	503	1,556,205	1.1
3	Brazil	248	680,442	0.6
4	United Kingdom	221	831,371	0.5
5	Tunisia	150	1,068,816	0.3
6	Türkiye	143	492,391	0.3
7	United States	99	214,146	0.2
8	Mexico	95	217,985	0.2
9	China	42	448,838	0.1
10	Qatar	16	40,508	0.0

Product chain

Place of the class in the processing chain: unwrought metal, preceding classes, the class, following classes and scrap. Nodes are classes of the dictionary (links); the current class – in the accent colour.

The scheme orders the classes of the dictionary by processing stage (family rules in the portal code: same material, a derived product after the non-derived one; links named explicitly – e.g. cans from can stock, die castings from casting alloys, coated steel from galvanizing alloys); an arrow does not mean deliveries between specific plants. Feed and scrap – CN headings of the metal, not dictionary classes.

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Figure data (table)

Product chain – Zinc casting alloys (Zamak, ZA)

Name	Stage	CN
Unwrought zinc (feedstock)	Feedstock	7901
Zinc casting alloys (Zamak, ZA)	Class	7901 20 00
Zinc alloy die castings	Following classes
zinc scrap	Scrap	7902

Figure 8. Map of plants

Source: ai-waw.com Companies register (entries from primary documents), as of 2026-10-25, version 2.40. plants without coordinates are not on the map. Base map: Natural Earth (public domain). Location of some plants: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

CSV (all years) JSON Metadata

Producers

Each entry from a primary document (class A/B/C and document page), with the verification date and the entity controlling the plant (GLEIF Level 2 or company documents).

7

producing plants (incl. outside the EU) of which in the EU-27: 6

7

companies

5

countries

33.3%

non-EU control – plants in the EU-27

Corporate groups (a company without a group counted separately): 4
Non-EU control – plants in the EU-27: 2 of 6 plants with an established controller (6 of 7 producing plants are in the EU-27; plants outside the EU are out of scope of the indicator; ownership control logic and area).
No document states a capacity for this class – no sum is computed.

Compare the first 5 producers

Plant country all BelgiumGermanyPolandSpainUnited Kingdom

Entry status all producedplanned productionproduction ended

Ownership control all controller in the EU-27controller outside the EUcontroller not established

Capacity from a document all statednot stated

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Alloys and standards

Materials, product standards and synonyms of this class from the alloy and standard glossary.

Materials

Product standards

• EN 1774 Zinc and zinc alloys - Alloys for foundry purposes - Ingot and liquid
• DIN 1743-1 High Purity Zinc Casting Alloys; Ingot Metals (withdrawn)

Synonyms

PL

Zamak (trade name)

EN

Zamak (trade name) · zinc alloy · alloys for foundry purposes

DE

Zinklegierungen in Rohform (CN label (DE)) · Zinklegierung · Gußlegierungen · Feinzink-Gußlegierungen

Full alloy and standard glossary →

Related

• Flow analysis: EU-27 Zinc Flows
• Country zinc flow analyses: Zinc Flows in Poland
• Ownership control of the producers: Ownership control (product filter)
• Companies list and map filtered to this class: Companies
• Production technologies: charge and melt analysis · melting and casting · protective atmospheres, gases and utilities · smelting and refining A picture of the supply market – not a commercial recommendation.

Data freshness

Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (annual data)

latest data: 2025 · retrieved: 2026-10-26 · next update: 2027-02 (period 2026) full year 2026 – after the December data release (February 2027); annual data may be revised in later releases

Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (monthly data)

latest data: 2026-08 (intra-EU: 2026-07) · retrieved: 2026-10-26 · next update: 2026-11-13 (period 2026-09)

Eurostat, PRODCOM DS-059358, DS-059367

latest data: 2025 · retrieved: 2026-10-26 · next update: 2027-07 (period 2026) first release of annual data in mid-July of the following year; revisions – mid-month (ESMS metadata prom_esms, item 8.1)

How to cite

Method note

Entry only from a primary document

A class is assigned to a plant only when a primary document names it – a product data sheet, an annual report, a register or a company page describing the product – with the document page and a reliability class (A, B or C). Press and company directories without a company document are not a basis for an entry.

Assignment from a location document

When a company document describes the product and only a location page points to the plant, the assignment of the product to the plant is an inference – the source then has class C and the entry awaits confirmation by a plant document.

“Full range” is not an entry

A general claim (“full range of copper products”) without the class, dimensions or alloys does not create an entry. A plant without an entry may make the class – the register does not know.

Capacity only from a document

Class capacity (kt) – only when a document states it; no estimates and no split of a whole plant’s capacity into classes. The sum covers only plants with a stated capacity and is a lower bound – always given with the number of plants it covers.

Entry status

Produced, planned production (investment announced in a document), production ended. A closed plant – production ended. Key figures – “produced” only.

Ownership control

The entity controlling the plant and its country – as in Ownership control (GLEIF Level 2, GLEIF exceptions, groups from company documents). The non-EU share is computed only among producers located in the EU-27 with an established controller (as the default area of Ownership control); a plant outside the EU – e.g. in Türkiye, the United Kingdom, Switzerland or Serbia – is out of scope of the indicator, although it counts among plants and countries.

Trade and production

Eurostat Comext: EU-27 extra-EU and intra-EU trade (arrivals reported by EU countries), CN codes of the class (sum of the codes), tonnes and euro, 2005–2025 plus the current incomplete year (hollow marker, no line); sold production – PRODCOM (a code may cover several classes); apparent consumption = production + extra-EU imports − extra-EU exports within the PRODCOM code scope. A CN code may cover products of other classes (e.g. rods and sections in one code) – trade describes CN codes, not the plants of the register.

Metals kept apart

Each class belongs to one metal (aluminium, copper, zinc). Each metal has its own page; the metals share a family layout – five semi-finished product families (wire rod and wire; bars and sections; plate, sheet and strip; foil; tubes), families outside semi-finished products (unwrought alloys – feedstock, powders and dust, chemical compounds, anodes and other articles – currently zinc only) and derived products; split by material within a family. A family without classes of a metal shows “–” with a description in the comparison table. Header figures and trade totals are given separately for each metal – tonnes of different metals are never added up. Derived products (e.g. winding wire, structures, cans, stranded wire, zinc-coated steel, die castings) are marked and are not semi-finished products; tonnes of coated steel are the mass of the product, not of zinc. A class outside the metal trade total (coated steel, zinc oxide, die castings without a CN code) carries a note with the reason.

Counterpart in the other metal

A copper ↔ aluminium substitution pair (e.g. wire, coiled tubes, strip, stranded wire) comes from the dictionary field or from the portal map of pairs. The comparison shows the figures of both classes side by side, without a total, and the application sentence has no figures; a pair does not mean interchangeability in every application.

Links by metal

Copper classes have a form in the R02 forecast and the EU copper flow analysis; aluminium classes – the EU aluminium flow analysis and the country analyses; zinc classes – the EU zinc flow analysis and the country analysis for Poland (the R01 and R02 forecasts cover copper only). An analysis link given with the class takes precedence.

Dataset scope

The dataset covers copper and aluminium semi-finished products and their alloys, and zinc products (titanium-zinc sheet, unwrought alloys, powders and dust, anodes, derived products) at plants of the Companies register. Counts of plants, countries and groups and the capacity sum are a lower bound of the market – they grow with further documents.

Pages and Markdown are open to text and data mining with attribution; JSON data – like the other JSON data of the register – are reserved as a database compilation. Trade data: Eurostat (reuse with attribution).

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