{"id":595302,"date":"2026-10-29T09:37:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=595302"},"modified":"2026-10-29T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:24:23","slug":"industrial-capacity-utilization-declines-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/industrial-capacity-utilization-declines-in-october","title":{"rendered":"Industrial Capacity Utilization Declines in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Ministry of Economy has published the results of a business sentiment survey conducted in October.<\/p>\n<p>The findings show that both capacity utilization and order coverage declined in the industrial sector.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAverage industrial capacity utilization stood at 68%, while the average order coverage period was 2.7 months,\u201d<\/em> the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Compared with the September survey, capacity utilization fell by 1 percentage point, while order coverage decreased by 0.2 months.<\/p>\n<p>In October, 67% of respondents reported an increase or no change in output during the reporting period, while 72% noted rising or stable demand. Both indicators were also down by 1 percentage point compared with September.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFor the second consecutive month, around 35% of survey participants have reported a trend toward declining inventories,\u201d<\/em> the ministry added.<\/p>\n<p>The share of respondents reporting stable employment at their companies rose by 3 percentage points to 76%, while the share reporting an increase in employment fell by 2 percentage points to 11%.<\/p>\n<p>Some 22% of executives plan to increase investment over the next three months, while 68% expect current trends to remain unchanged.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn the short term, nearly half of senior executives believe that current demand levels will remain unchanged, while 30% of respondents forecast an increase. A total of 76% of respondents plan to maintain current employment levels, 42% expect industrial output to remain at its current level, and 35% of company executives anticipate an increase in production. One-third of directors plan to increase profits,\u201d<\/em> the Ministry of Economy added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Economy has published the results of a business sentiment survey conducted in October. The findings show that both capacity utilization and order coverage declined in the industrial sector. \u201cAverage industrial capacity utilization stood at 68%, while the average order coverage period was 2.7 months,\u201d the ministry said. Compared with the September survey, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":559733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ae2f4ab33d77.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Industrial Capacity Utilization Declines in October"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595302","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\/595302","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=595302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595305,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595302\/revisions\/595305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}