Oviedo (EFE).- 25 percent of Asturian industrial companies hope to increase their current production levels in the coming months, while the rest hope to maintain them, according to the latest monthly survey conducted by the Asturian Society for Economic and Industrial Studies (Sadei) corresponding to February.
These results are identical to those of the survey carried out in January, as in the case of employment, where 96 percent of companies expect to maintain it and 4 percent even increase it.
The results of the survey have also remained unchanged in the case of inventories of terminal products, where 99 percent expect to maintain them and 1 percent to increase them, and in the case of prices, where 95 percent expect to maintain and 5 percent, a rebound.
Yes, the prospects for the order book have improved, where 77 percent expect to maintain it and 23 percent trust to increase it, when in the previous survey 99 percent expected maintenance and 1 percent, a cut.
The Asturian industry estimated the insured work period in February at 114 days, one less than in January.
With all this, the Industrial Climate Indicator of Asturias (ICIA) prepared by Sadei, which synthesizes the information on all these variables, has risen from 15 to 24 in the last year, “as a consequence of the improvement in the expected production trend”. . EFE
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