6.7% increase in the production index in 2021

With the exception of the manufacture of computer products and other manufactured industries which recorded respective declines of 9.9% and 6.2%, this recovery concerned all the other sectors, specifies the DTFE in its note of economic situation relating to the first results for the year 2021.

Indeed, increases were observed in metallurgy (+23.0%), the manufacture of rubber and plastic products (+22.8%), the manufacture of electrical equipment (+18, 9%), machinery and equipment manufacturing (+15.7%) and the automotive industry (+9.2%), said the same source.

For its part, and following having recorded in 2020 its lowest level since the launch of the survey, the industrial production capacity utilization rate (TUC) gradually recovered during the year 2021. Thus, it s is high on average at 72.2% in 2021 once morest 64.8% in 2020, an increase of 7.5 points.

This change is due to increases in the TUC of the textile and leather (14.7 points), mechanical and metallurgical (12.7 points), chemical and parachemical (5.7 points) and agri-food (3.4 points) industries. points), specifies the note, adding that in comparison with the year 2019, the TUC is down only by 1.8 points.