HELSINKI: Statistics Finland shows that the annual new orders in manufacturing 2015, April up by 2.1%. The value of new orders in manufacturing was 2.1 per cent higher in April 2015 than twelve months earlier, according to Statistics Finland.
The orders grew by 2.3 per cent year-on-year during January to April. Enterprises received more orders than twelve months ago in April in the paper industry and the chemical industry. In the industry of the manufacture of paper and paper board products, orders grew by 11.5 per cent and in the chemical industry by 7.0 per cent year-on-year as per the statistics based on non-probability sampling, in which the basic observation unit is an enterprise or a kind-of-activity unit.
The new orders decreased by 1.6 per cent in the metal industry and by 9.3 per cent in the textile industry year-on-year. The index of new orders in manufacturing describes development in the value of new orders received by enterprises for commodities and services that are meant to be produced by establishments located in Finland.
