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US Data: Capacity Utilization - Monthly Levels>

Release for:  August 2017
Source: U.S. Federal Reserve
Percent of capacity, seasonally adjusted
Item                                  May-17 Jun-17 Jul-17 Aug-17
Total industry                          76.6   76.7   76.9   76.1
Manufacturing                           75.5   75.6   75.6   75.3
 Manufacturing (NAICS)                  76.0   76.0   76.0   75.8
  Durable                               74.9   74.8   74.3   74.5
  Wood products                         76.7   75.9   77.3   76.7
   Nonmetallic minerals                 65.5   65.3   65.8   64.9
   Primary metals                       67.4   68.2   67.5   68.3
   Fabricated metals                    79.9   79.5   79.8   80.4
   Machinery                            73.7   73.4   73.3   72.3
   Computer and electronics             69.0   68.5   68.1   68.4
   Electrical equiptment
     and appliances                     81.0   81.1   82.4   80.3
    Motor vehicles and parts            81.4   80.8   77.4   79.0
   Aircraft and other miscellaneous
   transportation equipment             76.3   76.9   76.8   78.0
   Furniture and related products       78.6   78.9   78.2   78.3
   Miscellaneous                        75.0   75.3   75.6   74.9
 Nondurable                             77.2   77.5   77.9   77.2
  Food and tobacco products             78.4   78.2   78.7   78.7
  Textile mill products                 69.9   69.9   69.9   70.2
  Apparel products                      64.5   63.4   64.6   63.2
  Paper and products                    86.3   86.3   85.5   86.2
  Printing and publishing               67.5   67.5   67.3   67.7
  Petroleum products                    83.6   83.6   83.2   81.9
  Chemical                              74.5   75.2   76.0   74.4
  Rubber and plastics products          79.9   80.8   81.1   80.8
 Other manufacturing (non-NAICS)        62.9   63.5   63.5   63.1
 Mining                                 83.2   83.9   84.8   83.9
 Utilities                              77.9   77.1   78.2   73.9
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Selected high-technology industries     70.6   70.1   69.0   69.7
 Computers and office equipment         83.8   87.3   84.1   86.0
 Communications equipment               67.2   67.0   66.8   66.6
 Semiconductors and related
  electronic components                 69.1   67.7   66.7   67.5
Measures ex. selected high-technology
      industries
 Total industry                         76.8   76.8   77.1   76.3
  Manufacturing                         75.7   75.8   75.9   75.6
Stage-of-processing
 Crude                                  82.6   83.5   84.1   82.7
 Primary/semi-finished                  76.1   76.0   76.2   75.0
 Finished                               75.0   74.9   74.9   75.0
     ** MNI Washington Bureau (202) 371-2121 **
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