Capacity utilization also improved slightly rising 0.19% from May but falling 1.05% below the level seen in June 2014 to stand at 78.398%.
It's important to note that the last few months have seen a notable weakening trend in these measures with capacity utilization showing the first year-on-year declines since early 2010 at the start of the recovery.
It will be interesting to watch these series in the coming months to see if this is a momentary weakening or if we are possibly entering a new cyclical downturn.
