Yesterday, Stats Can posted the results of December’s Survey of Manufacturing. It turns out that in December manufacturing sales increased by 0.4% to $45.4 billion.
A breakdown of industries is as follows:
- Primary metal: increased by 3.9%
- Petroleum and Coal products: increased by 1.5%
- Chemical products: increased 2.3%
- Food: increased 0.9%
- Aerospace product and parts: fell 16.6%
- Machinery: fell 2%
- Computer and Electronic products: fell 3%