Turkish capacity utilisation

Turkey's State Statistics Institute reports that Turkey's leather industry was operating at 55.7% of its total capacity in November 2004, compared with 53.7% in the same month in 2003. The main reasons given by Turkish leather industry companies as to why they were not operating at full capacity were low demand on foreign markets, followed by low demand on the domestic Turkish market. In comparison, manufacturing sector companies in Turkey were operating at an average of 71.2% of their total capacity in November 2004, a year-on-year increase of 1.2%.