Industry returned to positive values in September

Furthermore, in the first nine months of 2007, the industrial production growth rate was 5.8 percent, after a fall in August of the processing industry.  The respective drops in August of 4.0 percent and 7.9 percent in the processing industry and the electricity, heating and water industry lead to an overall decrease in industrial production by 3.0 percent, compared to the previous month. The extraction industry registered a 10 percent increase.