Sales in the manufacturing sector were up 2.7% on the month in February, but mining sales declined 6.3%, the data showed.
By segment, sales of consumer goods dropped 1.7%, but companies in the other sectors posted increases. Energy sales went up 9% compared with January, durable good sales were 7.8% higher, while sales of capital goods and intermediary products increased 4.9% and 0.4%, respectively.
Compared with February 2014, industrial sales fell 5.6%. Manufacturing sales dropped 0.9% in February against the same month of 2014, while mining sales were down 2.7% on the year.
In the first two months of the year, Romanian industrial sales rose 2.2% compared with the similar period of 2014.