In May this year, seasonally-adjusted industrial production remained unchanged in Germany compared to the previous month, while the corrected figure for April showed an increase of 0.6 percent (as opposed to the initially reported decrease of 0.9 percent) compared to March, according to the provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis).
As compared to April, in May this year production excluding energy and construction increased by 0.4 percent, while the production of capital goods increased by 0.4 percent and consumer goods was up by 1.3 percent. Meanwhile, the production of intermediate goods recorded a decrease of 0.2 percent, while energy production decreased by 3.1 percent and construction saw a decline of 0.5 percent, all month on month.