Before September, the orders had been declining continuously for a year. The value of orders is still at a low level.
During January to September, the orders went down by 10.2 per cent from the year before, the data show.
In the chemical industry, new orders increased by 8.3 per cent, in the metal industry by 3.6 per cent, and in the textile industry by 1.2 per cent from one year earlier.
In the industry of the manufacture of paper and paper board products, orders declined by 1.4 per cent year-on-year as per the statistics.
