ROME (ITALPRESS) – In April 2021, Istat estimates that the seasonally adjusted index of industrial production will increase by 1.8% compared to March. On average for the February-April period, the level of production grew by 1.9% compared to the previous three months. The monthly seasonally adjusted index shows cyclical increases in all the main groups of industries: positive changes characterize, in fact, capital goods (+ 3.1%), energy (+ 2.4%), intermediate goods (+1 , 1%) and, to a lesser extent, consumer goods (+ 0.5%). Adjusted for calendar effects, in April 2021 the overall index increased in trend terms by 79.5%, due to the exceptionally low figure of April 2020. Extraordinarily large increases therefore characterize all sectors: the increase, less pronounced for energy (+ 14.2%), is very high for capital goods (+ 119.5%), intermediate goods (+ 98.1%) and consumer goods (+ 62.2%). All the main sectors of economic activity recorded increases on a trend basis, with the exception of the production of basic pharmaceutical products (-3.2%). The largest growth characterizes the sectors of the textile, clothing, leather and accessories industries (+ 363.2%), the manufacturing of means of transport (+ 327.3%), other industries (+ 160.9%), manufacture of articles in rubber and plastic materials (+ 149.3%) and metallurgy and manufacture of metal products (+ 132.8%). (ITALPRESS). sat / com 10-Jun-21 11:10
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