In September this year, the capacity utilization rate in the Turkish basic metal manufacturing industry was 80.7 percent, down from 82.1 percent recorded in August, while the capacity utilization rate in the Turkish basic metal manufacturing industry was 77.4 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 69.9 percent, falling from 73.87 percent recorded in August and down from 73.2 percent in September last year.
The capacity utilization rate in Turkey's general manufacturing industry, on the other hand, was at 76.2 percent in September this year, down from the 77.8 percent recorded in the previous month and decreasing from 79 percent in the same month of 2017.