The industrial production marks a setback after 5 months of growth, records a bending of -1.5% with respect to the month of April, while the comparison with the same month of last year is confirmed as positive (+21,1%) considering the effects of pandemic on the production level and for an additional working day (21 towards the 20 working days of may 2020).
The sector that has shown the main increasing is the one of foam and plastic (+40,1%), that in the period January/May underline a tendential growth of +35,2% with respect to the first 5 months of last year.

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