Ljubljana, 10 December (STA) - Slovenia's industrial output in October was 2.5% above the September figure and 4% higher year-on-year, while in the first ten months of the year industry expanded by 6% year-on-year, fresh statistics show.
Between January and the end of October manufacturing output expanded by 6.5%; electricity, gas and steam supply industries recorded a 1.9% growth and mining and quarrying a 0.4% growth.
A report by the Statistics Office also shows growth in production regardless of technological complexity; output of high-tech goods increased the most, at the annual rate of 6.6%.
Capital goods production expanded by 13.6%, output of consumer goods grew by 3.7% and production of intermediate goods increased by 3.8% in the ten months of the year compared with the same period last year.
In October alone output increased the most in manufacturing, by 2.6% from the month before and by 4.4% year on year.
Production in electricity, gas and steam supply rose by 2% from the month before, but fell by 0.3% year-on-year, while mining and quarrying put out 3.2% less than a month ago and 13.1% more year-on-year.
Industrial turnover was 2.8% higher than the month before and 2.3% higher than in October 2017. The value of stocks of finished and unfinished products rose by 1.2% from September by 11.2% year-on-year.