The use of installed capacity in the industry decreases and approaches the level of 2016

In May, the installed capacity utilization in the industry rose to 65.1%, 0.7 point less than the 65.8% from May 2017 and only 0 , 1 percentage point more than in the same 2016 period, as reported yesterday by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC).

The best performing sectors are basic metallurgical industries (82%), tobacco products (79.5%), petroleum refining (77.5%), non-metallic mineral products (72.9%), %), paper and paperboard (70.5%) and chemicals and substances (65.6%).

But there are others that were below the general level. Thus, rubber and plastic, installed capacity was 62.4%, publishing and printing (62.1%), food products and beverages (61.5%), products textiles (59.9%), the automotive industry (55.2%) and mechanical metal except the automobile (54.9%).

Thus, the basic metallurgical industries have the highest level of utilization of installed capacity with 82% because the growth of Perhaps mainly because of the demand for products for the construction sector and the automotive industry.