The industrial output declined by 4.9 per cent in January to February period compared to the corresponding period of the previous year.
Seasonally adjusted industrial output went down by 0.4 per cent from January to February.
In January, seasonally adjusted output went down by two per cent.
Industrial output diminished in all main industries in February. Output declined by most, or by good 18 per cent, in mining and quarrying.
The output diminished by 5.3 per cent in the chemical industry. In the metal industry, the output decreased by 4.7 per cent in February, the data show.
In the forest industry, capacity utilisation rate was 84.3 per cent in February, or 2.9 percentage points lower than in February 2014.
In the metal industry, capacity utilisation rate was 79.9 per cent in February, which was 2.3 percentage points higher than one year earlier.
