February fall for manufacturing output

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Manufacturing output suffered an unexpected drop in February - the first since October last year - but saw the more reliable three month figure climb by 0.4 per cent in the three months to February 2006 compared with the three months to November 2005.

During the the month’s, eight out of manufacturing’s 13 subsectors showed increases in output and five decreased. There was a significant increase in the chemicals and man-made fibres industries, where output increased by 1.5 per cent. There was also...

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