The results presented in this release reflect contract manufacturing activity and outsourcing in the Irish industrial economy. This release is prepared in compliance with the requirement of EU Regulation 1165/98, as amended, and the standards set out in the UN 2010 International Recommendations for the Index of Industrial Production. These standards set out that outsourced production is included as part of an enterprise’s Irish production.
The scale of contract manufacturing and outsourcing in the Irish industrial economy has increased since 2015, meaning that very high levels of short-term, i.e. monthly, volatility may be present in the indices presented in this release. With this in mind, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) recommends that analysts take a longer-term view of the indices. Accordingly, much of the commentary presented by the CSO in the release will refer to rolling quarterly time periods.
The CSO also publishes a Frontier Series release focusing on Domestic Industrial Production which is published quarterly to better capture domestic manufacturing activity within Ireland.
Over the three months from June 2025 to August 2025, production in manufacturing industries decreased by 5.7% when compared with the previous three-month period (March 2025 to May 2025).
From June 2025 to August 2025, production in manufacturing industries was 14.4% higher when compared with the same three-month period in 2024.
On a monthly basis, production in manufacturing industries rose by 9.6% between July 2025 and August 2025.
From June 2025 to August 2025, turnover in manufacturing industries was down by 27.6% when compared with the previous three-month period, while an annual decline of 0.2% was recorded when compared with the same three-month period in 2024.
The Modern sector experienced an increase of 18.4% in production in the three months from June 2025 to August 2025 when compared with the same period in 2024. In contrast, annual production in the Traditional sector fell by 2.2% over the same three-month period.
In line with best practice, the CSO has concluded a review of the seasonal adjustment methodology used in this monthly Industrial Production and Turnover series. The review has concluded that, at this time there is not enough evidence to suggest that switching to an Indirect Approach of seasonal adjustment would bring about improved results in the short term. Therefore, the CSO has decided to continue with the Direct Approach to seasonal adjustment. See Industrial Production and Turnover Seasonal Adjustment Review 2024 for more details.
The Headline Table shows the seasonally adjusted and unadjusted Production and Turnover Indices for Manufacturing industries. It also highlights the monthly and annual percentage changes for these indices, as well as percentage changes for the current quarter compared with the previous quarter.
| Manufacturing Industries - Seasonally Adjusted and Unadjusted Indices | Base Year 2021=100 | ||||
| Seasonally Adjusted | Unadjusted | ||||
| Production Index | Turnover Index | Production Index | Turnover Index | ||
| August 2025 | 130.6 | 131.2 | 121.2 | 107.8 | |
| July 2025 | 119.2 | 115.4 | 120.7 | 111.4 | |
| August 2024 | 105.0 | 106.3 | 93.7 | 87.7 | |
| Monthly % change | 9.6% | 13.7% | 0.5% | -3.2% | |
| Annual % change | 24.4% | 23.5% | 29.4% | 22.9% | |
| June 2025 - August 2025 | 122.5 | 116.5 | 114.1 | 104.6 | |
| March 2025 - May 2025 | 129.9 | 161.0 | 127.4 | 157.1 | |
| June 2024 - August 2024 | 107.1 | 116.8 | 99.4 | 106.3 | |
| Quarterly % change | -5.7% | -27.6% | -10.4% | -33.4% | |
| Annual % change | 14.4% | -0.2% | 14.8% | -1.6% | |
Figure 1 and Table 1 show the seasonally adjusted percentage changes in Manufacturing Industries for a rolling three-month provisional average.
| Production | Turnover | |
| Manufacturing Industries (10-33) | -5.7 | -27.6 |
| Food Products (10) | -12.4 | -7.8 |
| Meat & Meat Products (101) | -7.4 | -10.4 |
| Dairy Products (105) | 0.2 | -0.7 |
| Bakery & Farinaceous Products (107) | -2.5 | 1.6 |
| Grain Mill & Starch Products; Prepared Animal Feeds (106,109) | 6.4 | 6.8 |
| Other Food Products (102-104,108) | -19.1 | -24.9 |
| Textiles, Wearing Apparel & Leather Related Products (13-15) | -1.5 | -9.8 |
| Wood & Wood Products, except Furniture (16) | 15.5 | 12 |
| Paper & Paper Products; Printing & Reproduction of Recorded Media (17-18) | -18.1 | -7.2 |
| Rubber & Plastic Products (22) | -7.3 | -6.3 |
| Other Non-Metallic Mineral Products (23) | -4.3 | 0.1 |
| Basic Metals & Fabricated Metal Products (24-25) | -3.8 | -1.1 |
| Electrical Equipment (27) | 3.3 | 7.4 |
| Transport Equipment (29-30) | -11.3 | -6.6 |
| Tobacco, Leather, Coke & Refined Petroleum Products, Transport Equipment, Furniture, Repair & Installation of Machinery & Equipment (12,15,19,29-31,33) | -3.2 | 0.2 |
Figure 2 and Table 2 show the seasonally adjusted indices for the Modern and Traditional sectors. The Modern sector includes highly globalised industries such as Chemical, Pharmaceutical, and Computer & Electronics sectors. The Traditional sector contains all other sectors excluding the Modern sector.
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Statistician's Comment
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (09 October 2025) published Industrial Production and Turnover Indices for August 2025.
Commenting on the release, Colin Cotter, Statistician in the Enterprise Statistics Division, said: "Production in manufacturing industries decreased by 5.7% from June 2025 to August 2025 when compared with the previous three-month period (March 2025 to May 2025) on a seasonally adjusted basis, driven by differences in performance between the highly globalised Modern sector and the Traditional sector (See Headline Table and Table 1).
Monthly production in manufacturing industries rose by 9.6% between July 2025 and August 2025. On an annual basis, production in this sector was 14.4% higher in the three months from June 2025 to August 2025 when compared with the same period in 2024 (See Headline Table and Table 1). The CSO recommends that analysts take a longer-term view of the indices because of the variability that can occur within the given months of a quarter.
The highly globalised Modern sector, which includes the Chemical, Pharmaceutical, and Computer & Electronic sectors, experienced an annual growth of 18.4% in industrial production from June 2025 to August 2025 when compared with the same period in 2024. In contrast, the Traditional sector decreased by 2.2% annually over the same three-month period (See Table 1 and Table 2).
From June 2025 to August 2025, turnover in manufacturing industries was down by 27.6% when compared with the previous three-month period, however a decline of 0.2% was recorded when compared with the same three-month period in 2024 (See Headline Table and Table 1).
In general, it should be noted that the results presented in this release reflect contract manufacturing activity in the multinational sectors."