Industrial output volume rises 5.3%

Cork: Data from the Central Statistics Office shows that the seasonally adjusted volume of total industrial output for the three-month period December 2009 to February 2010 was up 5.3% compared with the preceding three-month period.

There was a rise of 5.7% in manufacturing over the same time-span and on an annual basis, manufacturing output was up 13.8% in the year in January and total industrial production was 11.8% higher.

Manufacturing output for 2009 was 3.5% lower on average than in 2008, the second year running of a decline in output, while total industrial production was down 3.9% on the previous year.