Manufacturing production fell by 1.8% and the extractive industries, energy, water category fell by 3%, detailed the National Institute of Statistics.

Year on year, manufacturing output was up 2.2% but was stable across industry as a whole due to an 11% drop in the extractive industries, energy, water category, "essentially due to of the drop in electricity production" in 2022, according to INSEE.

To a lesser degree, the food industry also dragged down industrial production with a drop of 1.6%.

The manufacture of transport equipment rose by 10.9% over one year, but over one month, production fell by 2.6% in the automotive sector and by 9.5% in the "other equipment" category. transport" which includes aeronautics.

Also over one month, the drop in production was more brutal in the pharmaceutical industry (-11.6%) and to a lesser degree in chemicals (-3.5%).

On the other hand, the manufacture of capital goods increased by 1%, driven by that of computer, electronic and optical products which gained 2.6%.

It also increases by 3.6% in coking and refining.

Metallurgy is up slightly by 0.3% and construction is almost stable over the month, with +0.2%.

Finally, INSEE warned that it had revised the composition of its indices reflecting industrial production as every year to "adapt them to economic or technical developments".

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