Manufacturing output grew 2% on the month in August, mining output grew 6%, while the utilities sector declined 0.6%.
In unadjusted data, industrial output dropped 8.9% on the month in August.
Compared with August 2016, seasonally adjusted industrial output increased 9.8%, as mining output grew 18.4%, manufacturing output grew 11%, and the utilities sector declined 1.5%, the data showed.
In unadjusted terms, industrial output grew 10.3% in August 2017 compared with August 2016.
In January-August, Romania’s seasonally adjusted industrial output grew 8.9% compared with the same period last year.
Manufacturing grew 9.1% on the year in the first eight months, mining output grew 4.3%, and the utilities sector grew 2.2%.
In unadjusted terms, the country’s industrial output grew 8.2% on the year in the first eight months, the data showed.