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Industrial capacity utilization rates, third quarter 2021
Canadian industries operated at 81.4% of their production capacity in the third quarter of 2021, down from 82.0% in the second quarter. This was the first quarterly decrease after four consecutive quarterly increases. The decline in the third quarter was mainly because of declines in the construction and the manufacturing sector, particularly transportation equipment manufacturing. In the construction sector, capacity utilization dropped to 90.1% in the third quarter, after posting four consecutive quarterly increases. Capacity utilization fell 4.0 percentage points. The capacity utilization rate is slightly higher ... (full story)