UK Manufacturing

Output down -38.3% in the first two months of the year, with 9,924 vans, trucks and buses leaving factories.

Output for overseas markets tumbles -8.1%, with home orders down -34.9%.

Production for domestic and overseas markets falls -27.2% and -30.8% respectively.

Output falls for both domestic and overseas markets, declining -28.8% and -33.6% respectively.

Weakest January since 2009 as UK car manufacturing output declines -27.3% to 86,052 units – the 17th consecutive monthly decline.
Better news for alternatively fuelled vehicles with 21,792 cars made, up 18.9%.
Having lost car production worth £11.3bn to pandemic, sector urges Chancellor to introduce measures to enhance auto manufacturing competitiveness.

UK engine manufacturing down -27.0% in 2020 to just over 1.8 million units.

British commercial vehicle production falls -15.5% in 2020 to just 66,116 units, the lowest annual output since 1933.

UK car manufacturing output falls -29.3% in 2020 to 920,928 units, the lowest total since 1984.
Production for UK and overseas markets declines -30.4% and -29.1% but more than eight in 10 cars still head abroad.
Latest independent outlook forecasts car output to reach one million units in 2021, but much depends on Covid recovery, market confidence and new cross-channel rules.

189,883 UK engines built in November as output declines by -8.2%.

Overall decrease driven by -8.8% exports decline, while production for UK rises 10.1% as sector works to meet ecommerce-driven demand.