Brazilian industry production grew 1.1% in September this year compared to August. This is the second consecutive increase because in August the expansion was 0.2%. The Monthly Industrial Survey (PIM) was released this Friday (1st), in Rio de Janeiro, by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
The industry also expanded in comparison with September last year (3.4%), the fourth consecutive increase, and in the year (3.1%) and 12 months (2.6%).
The main increases in September – compared to August – came from the sectors of coke, petroleum products and biofuels (4.3%), food products (2.3%), motor vehicles, trailers and bodies (2.5% ), tobacco products (36.5%), metallurgy (2.4%) and electrical machines, apparatus and materials (3.3%). In total, 12 of the 25 industrial sectors surveyed showed growth.
Fall
At the same time, 12 sectors fell, with emphasis on extractive industries (-1.3%), chemical products (-2.7%), other transport equipment (-7.8%) and pharmochemical and pharmaceutical products (- 3.7%). Rubber and plastic products showed stability in production.
Three of the industry’s four major economic categories grew from August to September: capital goods, that is, machinery and equipment used in the productive sector (4.2%), intermediate goods (industrialized inputs used in the productive sector (1.2%) and semi- and non-durable consumer goods (0.6%). Only the durable consumer goods segment fell (-2.7%).
