Industrial orders* went up by 25.4 percent in the first 8 months of the year against the same period of 2009, according to data released by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).
The growth was generated by the intermediate goods (32.7 percent), capital goods (27.7 percent), durable goods (18.7 percent) and the consumable goods (1.1 percent) industries.
The number of industrial orders increased by 35.1 percent in August 2010 against August 2009 but dropped by 6.9 on July 2010.
Simona Bazavan
*Refers to the total number of new industrial orders both internal and foreign.