Manufacturing production decreased 0.7% on the month in August, while energy production inched down 0.2%. Mining output edged up 0.1% from a month earlier, data adjusted for the number of working days and seasonal factors showed.
In annual terms, the country’s adjusted industrial output declined 1.1% in August, largely due to a 1.5% decrease in manufacturing production.
Production in the mining sector advanced 2.7% on the year, while energy output rose 1.5%, the data showed.
In unadjusted data, Romanian industrial production fell 11% on the month in August, and was down 1.7% compared with the same month of 2011.