Manufacturing industry at 79.8% operating capacity in 4Q23 - DoSM

KUALA LUMPUR: The manufacturing industry operated at 79.8 per cent capacity in the fourth quarter of 2023 (4Q 2023), edged down by 0.4 percentage points, from a rate of 80.2 per cent in 4Q 2022, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DoSM).

In a statement today, chief statistician Datuk Seri Mohd Uzir Mahidin said a lower capacity utilisation of the manufacturing industry was primarily attributable to decreases in the sub-sector of petroleum, chemical, rubber and plastic products (-4.2 percentage points); and electrical and electronic products (-0.5 percentage points).