On Monday, StatsCan posted a new study: The year in review in manufacturing.

According to this study, manufacturing sales increased 8.9% from 2009, to a total of $529.8 billion. While this is the largest single annual increase since 2000, it is still below the sales figures from 2008.

Nineteen industries (95.4% of total manufacturing) saw dollar sales increase through 2010 – the largest increases were in the vehicle, petroleum and coal products and primary metal manufacturing industries.

The full study can be read here