Manufacturing grows for sixth month

Visitors arrive at Suvarnabhumi airport in Samut Prakan province last month as the Test & Go entry scheme resumed. The country reopening was a factor behind the increase in manufacturing production last month. (Photo: Varuth Hirunyatheb)

The manufacturing production index rose for the sixth consecutive month in February on eased Covid-19 controls and higher demand for Thai exports, according to the Industry Ministry.

Thongchai Chawalitpichaet, director-general of the ministry's Office of Industrial Economics, said on Wednesday that last month MPI stood at 102.00, up 2.75% year-on-year, and marked the sixth consecutive month of its increase since last September. The index went up 2.38% on average in the first two months of this year.