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Informations Rapides · 29 January 2021 · n° 031
Informations rapidesManufacturing industry turnover was virtually stable in November 2020 (+0.1%) Turnover in industry and construction - November 2020

In November 2020, turnover tended to stabilize in the manufacturing industry (+0.1% after +0.1%); It was stable for the second consecutive month in the whole industry.

Export turnover recovered sharply in November (+6.6% after −2.4%).

Compared to February (last month before the first lockdown), turnover remained in decline, in the manufacturing industry (−8.0%) as in industry as a whole (−6.3%).

Informations rapides
No 031
Paru le :Paru le29/01/2021
Prochaine parution le : 28/08/2025 at 12:00 - June 2025
Warning

In the following paragraphs, percentage changes by subsections are presented in descending order of their contribution to the overall percentage change of the industrial production index. The contribution of a subsection takes into account its weight and the magnitude of its evolution.

All data are corrected for seasonal and working day effects (SA-WDA).

In November 2020, turnover tended to stabilize in the manufacturing industry (+0.1% after +0.1%); It was stable for the second consecutive month in the whole industry.

Export turnover recovered sharply in November (+6.6% after −2.4%).

Compared to February (last month before the first lockdown), turnover remained in decline, in the manufacturing industry (−8.0%) as in industry as a whole (−6.3%).

In November, turnover recovered in “other manufacturing” but decreased in the manufacture of transport equipment

In November, turnover recovered in “other manufacturing” (+2.5% after −0.9%) and also increased in the manufacture of machinery and equipment goods (+1.4% after +0.0%). By contrast, turnover declined in the manufacture of food products and beverages (−0.6% after −0.8%), in the manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products (−1.5% after +6.7%) and in the manufacture of transport equipment (−6.5% after +3.4%).

Compared to February, turnover in industry remained in decline in almost all sectors, especially in the manufacture of transport equipment (−25.2%) and in the manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products (−34.9%). It fell more moderately in “other manufacturing” (−2.0%), in the manufacture of food products and beverages (−2.1%) and in the manufacture of machinery and equipment goods (−2.4%). Compared to February, turnover increased only in mining and quarrying; energy; water supply; waste management (+1.9%).

Turnover in manufacturing industry

2015 based SA-WDA
Turnover in manufacturing industry (2015 based SA-WDA)
Manufacturing industry Man. of food products and beverages Man. of transport equipment Other manufacturing
2016-01 98.74 99.47 100.14 99.9
2016-02 98.31 100.14 97.87 99.72
2016-03 98.26 100.03 101.64 98.14
2016-04 98.6 97.94 102.63 99.08
2016-05 98.36 99.13 101.49 98.53
2016-06 99.59 99.7 109.8 97.48
2016-07 98.21 100.13 99.27 98.12
2016-08 100.76 101.34 106.78 99.64
2016-09 100.94 101.82 105.22 100.26
2016-10 99.28 101.37 100.95 98.13
2016-11 103.12 102.57 109.01 102.01
2016-12 105.62 101.5 126.82 101.54
2017-01 102.22 101.22 105.95 101.32
2017-02 104.52 103.31 106.02 103.6
2017-03 109.04 103.53 132.73 104.8
2017-04 103.2 103.69 103.98 103.06
2017-05 106.32 104.91 112.83 106.04
2017-06 105.94 104.95 111.09 105.77
2017-07 106.46 104.78 113.26 105.99
2017-08 105.25 105.88 105.54 105.46
2017-09 107.48 105.81 116.03 105.72
2017-10 108.48 105.64 118.81 106.33
2017-11 109.37 105.75 119.56 107.64
2017-12 110.27 104.55 120.61 109.02
2018-01 109.27 104.77 119.59 107.7
2018-02 106.93 105.65 108.38 106.3
2018-03 109.38 106.25 119.57 107.49
2018-04 108.89 104.67 117.13 107.65
2018-05 106.52 106.54 99.7 107.69
2018-06 111.07 106.13 117.21 109.97
2018-07 108.39 105.13 112.15 107.22
2018-08 110.85 106.79 116.21 108.8
2018-09 109.42 105.15 113.99 107.43
2018-10 114.34 108.17 129.41 111.15
2018-11 110.7 107.04 117.31 109.18
2018-12 112.25 107.62 119.67 111.8
2019-01 112.22 108.22 121.2 110.01
2019-02 113.64 107.61 127.36 110.05
2019-03 113.05 105.4 125.91 111.01
2019-04 113.65 111.05 125.08 110.19
2019-05 113.81 109.51 125.87 110.98
2019-06 111.12 108.73 120.48 109.42
2019-07 112.96 109.71 128.12 109.18
2019-08 113.34 109.73 128.55 109.58
2019-09 112.69 109.38 127.17 109.98
2019-10 113.39 109.67 130.62 110.53
2019-11 111.92 109.89 125.24 108.97
2019-12 111.81 109.72 124.12 109.15
2020-01 111.84 111.01 122.12 109.27
2020-02 111.55 110.15 126.48 108.22
2020-03 92.67 106.15 83.57 91.67
2020-04 71.14 95.67 38.48 74.75
2020-05 82.58 97.15 56.02 88.17
2020-06 99.61 108.96 95.43 99.24
2020-07 98.95 110.49 87.75 100.35
2020-08 100.56 108.88 86.83 103.83
2020-09 102.42 109.29 97.97 104.42
2020-10 102.56 108.4 101.26 103.47
2020-11 102.63 107.8 94.63 106.09

Turnover in manufacturing industry

  • Sources: DGFiP, INSEE

Indexes of turnover in industry and construction

SA-WDA, based year 2015
Indexes of turnover in industry and construction (SA-WDA, based year 2015)
Change in %
Industries: Poids (1) Nov. Nov. / Oct. Oct. / Sep. Nov. / Feb. q-o-q (2) y-o-y (3)
BE: INDUSTRY 10000 106.1 0.0 0.0 -6.3 2.9 -7.4
CZ: MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 8371 102.6 0.1 0.1 -8.0 2.8 -9.0
of which Exports 2977 96.8 6.6 -2.4 -6.6 6.0 -10.6
(C1): Man. of food products and beverages 1809 107.8 -0.6 -0.8 -2.1 -0.9 -1.0
of which Exports 330 110.6 12.6 2.5 6.4 9.1 -6.1
(C2): Man. of coke and refined petroleum products 423 69.0 -1.5 6.7 -34.9 -1.9 -36.8
(C3): Machinery and equipment goods 944 105.6 1.4 0.0 -2.4 1.6 -4.8
of which Exports 491 98.7 5.0 -0.8 -4.7 2.8 -10.0
[CI] Man. of computer, electronic and optical products 286 108.4 1.4 -1.4 -5.2 -1.3 -7.7
[CJ] Man. of electrical equipment 225 101.6 0.4 1.0 -4.0 0.4 -4.6
[CK] Man. of machinery and equipment n.e.c. 433 105.8 1.9 0.4 0.4 4.4 -2.8
(C4): Man. of transport equipment 1387 94.6 -6.5 3.4 -25.2 8.8 -23.3
of which Exports 738 98.8 3.7 -0.2 -0.2 6.5 -2.6
[CL1] Man. of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers 648 104.5 -6.9 1.0 -7.0 20.2 -5.7
[CL2] Man. of other transport equipment 739 85.9 -6.1 6.0 -38.1 -1.4 -36.2
(C5): Other manufacturing 3808 106.1 2.5 -0.9 -2.0 3.5 -4.7
of which Exports 1367 91.8 7.0 -5.5 -13.8 6.2 -16.2
[CB] Man. of textiles, wearing apparel, leather and related products 188 99.5 -7.8 0.7 -6.9 -2.2 -3.6
[CC] Man. of wood and paper products; printing and reproduction of recorded media 402 99.3 1.2 0.0 -1.4 1.8 -4.3
[CE] Man. of chemicals and chemical products 768 99.9 0.2 2.1 -3.1 4.0 -6.6
[CF] Man. of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations 296 118.3 2.0 -6.6 -1.5 -0.1 -0.2
[CG] Man. of rubber and plastics products, and other non-metallic mineral products 613 112.0 4.7 -1.7 0.5 2.2 -1.9
[CH] Man. of basic metals and fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment 867 101.0 5.3 0.7 -4.7 5.5 -10.5
[CM] Other manufacturing; repair and installation of machinery and equipment 673 114.9 3.6 -3.2 1.1 6.1 -0.7
DE: Mining and quarrying; energy, water supply, sewerage, waste management 1629 123.7 -0.1 -0.5 1.9 3.2 0.0
[BZ] Mining and quarrying 60 123.3 7.8 -3.9 4.6 0.0 2.8
[DZ] Electricity, gas, steam and air-conditioning supply 1204 125.1 -1.2 0.0 0.8 1.9 -1.0
[EZ] Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation 365 119.2 2.5 -1.5 5.7 8.8 3.4
FZ: CONSTRUCTION 10000 129.0 5.2 -1.8 9.0 16.8 1.9
  • (1) 10000=B...E et F
  • (2) Quarter-on-quarter: last three months / previous three months
  • (3) Year-on-year: last three months / same three months of previous year
  • The codes correspond to different levels of aggregation of the french aggregated classification of activites (NA 2008).
  • Sources: DGFiP, INSEE

Turnover in the manufacturing industry fell sharply over one year (-9.0%)

The industry turnover over the last three months fell sharply compared to that of the same three months of the previous year (−9.0% for the manufacturing industry, –7.4% for the whole industry). The fall was particularly pronounced in the manufacture of transport equipment (−23.3%) and in the manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products (−36.8%) and was less strong in “other manufacturing” (−4.7%) and in the manufacture of machinery and equipment goods (−4.8%). It was moderate in the manufacture of food products and beverages (−1.0%). The turnover was stable in mining and quarrying; energy; water supply; waste management

At a finer level, within the manufacturing industry, the drop in turnover was particularly strong in the manufacture of other transport equipment over one year (−36.2%).

Revision of variations

(in point %)
Revision of variations ((in point %))
Oct. / Sep. Sep. / Aug. Aug. / July Q3 2020/ Q2 2020 2019/ 2018
Industry (BE) 0.23 -0.06 0.13 0.03 0.00
raw serie 0.29 -0.08 0.05 -0.02 -0.01
SA-WDA parameters -0.06 0.02 0.08 0.05 0.01
Manufacturing industry (CZ) -0.07 -0.07 0.15 0.05 -0.01
raw serie 0.06 -0.11 0.06 -0.03 -0.01
SA-WDA parameters -0.13 0.04 0.09 0.08 0.00
  • How to read it: in the manufacturing, the SA-WDA variation between August 2020 and September 2020 is revised by -0.07 points: 0.06 points are due to the raw series revision and -0.13 points to the new calculation of the SA-WDA parameters.
  • Sources: DGFiP, INSEE

Revisions

The percentage change of the turnover index in October 2020 has been revised slightly downwards at +0.1% instead of +0.2% in the manufacturing industry ; it has been reestimated at +0.0% instead of −0.2% in industry as a whole, compared to the previous publication.

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