{"id":546734,"date":"2026-05-29T17:43:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=546734"},"modified":"2026-05-29T19:07:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:07:33","slug":"production-capacity-utilization-edged-up-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/production-capacity-utilization-edged-up-in-may","title":{"rendered":"Production Capacity Utilization Edged Up in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Economy Ministry has published the results of its May business survey, which indicate a slight increase in production capacity utilization.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThe production capacity utilization rate increased by 1 percentage point compared with April and reached 67%,\u201d<\/i> the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>The indicator measuring order coverage also increased. In May, it stood at three months of work compared with 2.9 months in April.<\/p>\n<p>Positive or stable demand dynamics were reported by 70% of survey participants, while 68% of respondents said output had either increased or remained unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>Survey participants expect demand to pick up during the summer. This outlook was shared by 44% of respondents. Meanwhile, 45% expect production to increase and 40% anticipate higher profits.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next three months, 93% of respondents forecast that investment activity will either remain at its current level or increase. In May, the main areas of investment were the modernization (75%) and expansion (36%) of production capacity. Investments in resource efficiency and reducing labor costs were reported by 24% and 17% of companies, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economy Ministry has published the results of its May business survey, which indicate a slight increase in production capacity utilization. \u201cThe production capacity utilization rate increased by 1 percentage point compared with April and reached 67%,\u201d the ministry said. The indicator measuring order coverage also increased. In May, it stood at three months of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":510156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a19b9c81d887.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Production Capacity Utilization Edged Up in May"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}