Posted by meb at February 17th, 2008

The manufacturing industry’s capacity utilization rose by 2.2 percentage points in January 2008 over the same month last year, to reach 80.5 percent of full capacity.

The provisional results of the Monthly Tendency Survey among 5,037 manufacturing establishments were released yesterday by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat). The survey showed a shortage of demand in the domestic market as the primary reason for working at less than full capacity.

A shortage of raw materials, financial problems, labor problems and a shortage of energy were other reasons for capacity deficiencies.

Shortage of demand in the domestic market was considered the primary reason by 48.3 percent of participants; 19.4 percent said a lack of demand in external markets caused them to avoid running production at full capacity; financial problems were offered by 4.2 percent of respondents, while 4.3 percent said a shortage of raw domestic materials was the main reason. A shortage of raw imported materials (3.7 percent) and labor problems (2.1 percent) were the other two reasons. Capacity utilization rates stood at 83.5 in June 2007, 81.9 in July, 80.3 in August, 83.2 in September, 83.1 in October and 82.6 in November. In the last month of 2007, it had dropped to 81.2.

source: Today’s Zaman

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