KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s manufacturing industry capacity utilisation reached 81.8 per cent in the first quarter of 2025 (1Q 2025), increasing 1.0 percentage points from the 80.08 per cent recorded in the same quarter of the preceding year, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM)
In a statement today, chief statistician Datuk Sri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin said the capacity utilisation was in line with the performance of the manufacturing sector’s industrial production index, which increased 4.2 per cent year-on-year during this quarter.
