Turkey’s industrial sector’s operating capacity increased from 68.5 percent to 74 percent this past April compared with figures from the same period the previous year, reported the Republic’s State Institute for Statistics (DIE). DIE polled 871 manufacturers and found that businesses are not working at their full capacity due to low demand for merchandise in local markets coupled with a decrease in international demand.
A sector’s operating capacity is the ratio of its actual output to its estimated potential output. A company's measure of its level of operation, as a percentage of potential, takes into account changes in the obsolescence of facilities, capital-to-labor ratios and other characteristics of production techniques. — (menareport.com)
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