By Gokhan Ergocun
ISTANBUL (AA) -The capacity utilization rate for the Turkish manufacturing industry rose to 73.8% in September, a Turkish Central Bank survey said Wednesday.
The figure fell 0.2 percentage points monthly from 73.6% in August.
According to the data, the highest utilization in September was 74.9% for intermediate goods, up 0.2 percentage points from August.
Meanwhile, the lowest utilization rate was 70.3% in durable consumer goods, unchanged from August.
Broken down by sector, the highest capacity usage was in the manufacture of tobacco products at 85.6%, while the lowest, 63.4%, was in leather products.
The capacity utilization rate figures are based on responses from a business tendency survey of local manufacturing units.
The Turkish Central Bank said 1,821 companies responded to the survey this month, and the data does not reflect the bank's views or predictions.