In October this year, the capacity utilization rate in the Turkish basic metal manufacturing industry was 76.47 percent, down from 80.73 percent recorded in September, while the capacity utilization rate in the Turkish basic metal manufacturing industry was 79.9 percent in October last year, according to the provisional data released by the Central Bank of Turkey.
Meanwhile, in October of the current year the capacity utilization rate in the manufacture of metal products, except machinery and equipment, was 69.48 percent, falling from 69.95 percent recorded in September and down from 73.12 percent in October last year.
The capacity utilization rate in Turkey's general manufacturing industry, on the other hand, was at 75.4 percent in October this year, down from the 76.2 percent recorded in the previous month and decreasing from 79.7 percent in the same month of 2017.