Ljubljana, 10 September (STA) - Slovenia's industrial output expanded at an annual rate of 7.3% in the first seven months of the year, owing to a 8% growth in manufacturing, fresh data from the Statistics Office shows.
The electricity, gas and steam supply sector grew by 2.6% year-on-year between January and July, while the output in mining and quarrying dropped by 3.3%.
Technological complexity-wise, the fastest annual growth was recorded in medium-high-technology manufacturing (10.4%), followed by medium-low-technology manufacturing (7.8%) and low-technology manufacturing (6.2%). The output of high-tech products rose by 5.2%.
Broken down by industrial groupings, capital goods industries saw a 15.8% growth, intermediate goods industries a 5.4% growth and consumer goods industries a 3.6% growth (durable goods +6.3%, non-durable +2.9%).
In July alone, industrial production expanded by 5.8% on the same month a year ago, while being enhanced by 0.3% compared to the month before.
Industrial turnover rose by 0.8% from June 2018 and increased by 4.9% from July 2017. In the first seven months of the year the turnover rose by 8.2%.
The value of stocks of finished and unfinished production increased by 0.7% from June and by 9.2% compared to July 2017, expanding by 8.2% y/y between January and July.