In September this year, the capacity utilization rate in the Turkish basic metal manufacturing industry was 77.4 percent, down from 79.9 percent recorded in August, while the capacity utilization rate in the Turkish basic metal manufacturing industry was 78.3 percent in September last year, according to the provisional data released by the Central Bank of Turkey.
Meanwhile, in September of the current year the capacity utilization rate in the manufacture of metal products, except machinery and equipment, was 73.2 percent, decreasing from 73.5 percent recorded in August and up from 72.7 percent in September last year.
The capacity utilization rate in Turkey's general manufacturing industry, on the other hand, was at 79 percent in September this year, up from the 78.8 percent recorded in the previous month and rising from 78.1 percent in the same month of 2016.