In May this year, the capacity utilization rate in the Turkish basic metal manufacturing industry was 78.25 percent, up from 74.11 percent recorded in April, while the capacity utilization rate in the Turkish basic metal manufacturing industry was 81.1 percent in May last year, according to the provisional data released by the Central Bank of Turkey.
Meanwhile, in May of the current year the capacity utilization rate in the manufacture of metal products, except machinery and equipment, was 71.31 percent, increasing from 69.7 percent recorded in April and down from 72.44 percent in May last year.
The capacity utilization rate in Turkey's general manufacturing industry, on the other hand, was at 76.3 percent in May this year, up from the 75 percent recorded in the previous month and decreasing from 77.9 percent in the same month of 2018.