In February this year, the capacity utilization rate in the Turkish basic metal manufacturing industry was 82.5 percent, up from 80.5 percent recorded in January, while the capacity utilization rate in the Turkish basic metal manufacturing industry was 77.2 percent in February last year, according to the provisional data released by the Central Bank of Turkey.
Meanwhile, in February of the current year the capacity utilization rate in the manufacture of metal products, except machinery and equipment, was 73.6 percent, rising from 71.6 percent recorded in January and up from 69.4 percent February last year.
The capacity utilization rate in Turkey's general manufacturing industry, on the other hand, was at 77.8 percent in February this year, down from the 78.2 percent recorded in the previous month and rising from 76.8 percent in the same month of 2017.