KUALA LUMPUR, March 12 — The sales value of the manufacturing sector returned to positive as it recorded a growth of 3.2 per cent, reaching RM152.7 billion in January 2024, according to the Statistics Department (DOSM).

SUNGAI BULOH, March 11 — The Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) said the country’s manufacturing sector is expected to grow moderately in the first half of 2024 (1H2024) amid improving economic conditions.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 21 — The manufacturing industry operated at 79.8 per cent capacity in the fourth quarter of 2023 (4Q 2023), edged down by 0.4 percentage points from a rate of 80.2 per cent in 4Q 2022, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 — Malaysia's manufacturing sector sales value fell 1.4 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) to RM156.7 billion in October, mainly due to the persistent decline in the petroleum, chemical, rubber, and plastic products sub-sector by 9.5 per cent y-o-y.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 16 — Malaysian Rating Corporation Bhd (MARC) expects Malaysia's 2024 real gross domestic product (GDP) to grow between 4.0 per cent and 5.0 per cent, with the manufacturing sector as the key driver.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 12 — Malaysia's manufacturing sector saw its sales value fall 3.3 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) to RM152.3 billion in August 2023, mainly due to the petroleum chemical, rubber and plastic sub-sector which shrank 12.1 per cent, said the Statistics Department.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 11 — The Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) said the country’s manufacturing sector slowed down further in the first half of 2023 (1H2023) and with the global economy tilted towards the downside, the sector’s outlook for the 2H2023 remains cautious.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 11 — The sales value of the manufacturing sector rose 2.5 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) to RM1.03 trillion for the first seven months of 2023, the Department of Statistics Malaysia said.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 12 — Malaysia's Industrial Production Index (IPI) rebounded to 4.7 per cent in May 2023 as against negative 3.3 per cent recorded in the previous month, driven by positive momentum in all sectors, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

KUALA LUMPUR, June 2 — Malaysia's manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) is expected to remain consistent with the trend of the global PMI, given the multifaceted and volatile nature of the manufacturing industry, said PublicInvest Research.

LONDON/TOKYO/WASHINGTON, June 2 — Sluggish global demand deepened the decline in manufacturing activity across Europe and the United States, and remained a major challenge for many of Asia's big exporters, business surveys for May showed on Thursday (June 1).

KUALA LUMPUR, May 24 — The Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) has urged the government to address the fragmentation and duplication of programmes and initiatives to support its fiscal consolidation initiatives aimed at reducing the fiscal deficit.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 19 — Malaysia’s manufacturing industry operated with a 79.6 per cent capacity utilisation in the first quarter of 2023 (1Q 2023), said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

KUALA LUMPUR, May 9 — The sales value of the manufacturing sector expanded by eight per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) to RM156.2 billion in March 2023 mainly lifted by double-digit growth in transport equipment and other manufactures (14.6 per cent y-o-y) and electrical and electronics products (12.7 per cent y-o-y) sub-sectors, the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) said.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 11 — The sales value of the manufacturing sector posted double-digit growth of 10.3 per cent year-on-year to record RM145.2 billion in February 2023, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

KUALA LUMPUR, 23 March — Malaysia’s manufacturing sector recorded a strong growth of 17.4 per cent in gross output to RM1.61 trillion in 2021 from RM1.37 trillion in the year before, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

KUALA LUMPUR, March 16 — Activities in the manufacturing sector are expected to remain moderate in the first half of this year (1H 2023) as manufacturers continue to brace for challenging business conditions, particularly in the pressure on inputs costs, increased costs of energy, and ringgit fluctuations, said the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) president Tan Sri Soh Thian Lai.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 7 — The sales value of Malaysia’s manufacturing sector expanded by 8.6 per cent year-on-year in December 2022 to RM156.3 billion while the overall performance reached RM1.8 trillion in 2022, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11 — The manufacturing sector continued its double-digit growth to record RM159.2 billion in sales in November 2022, an increase of 11.8 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y), the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) said.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 29 — Malaysia’s producer price index (PPI) has eased further to 3.2 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) in November 2022 from four per cent y-o-y in the previous month, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).