Manufacturing production increased 3.3% on the month in September, in data adjusted for the number of working days and seasonal factors. Output in the mining sector dropped 4.9% compared with August, while production in the utility sector went down 3% on the month.
In annual terms, industrial production increased 4.9% in August, also due to increased production in the manufacturing sector.
Manufacturing output rose 6.4% on the year, but output in the utility and mining sectors fell 6.7% and 2.1% respectively, the data showed.
In the January-September interval, the industrial output was up 8.5% compared with the year-earlier period, supported mainly by the manufacturing sector.
In unadjusted data, Romanian industrial production went up 27.1% on the month in September, and was 6.1% higher than in the same month of 2013.