FX.co ★ Romania Industrial Production Falls Most in 1½ Years

Romania’s industrial production fell by 6.2% year-on-year in September 2026, deepening from a 2.6% decline in August and marking the sharpest contraction since March 2025. The downturn was driven primarily by a steeper drop in manufacturing output (-7.2% vs -3.5% in August), with notable declines in the manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers (-15% vs -6%), electrical equipment (-5% vs +2.4%), machinery and equipment n.e.c. (-18% vs -0.7%), and fabricated metal products, excluding machinery and equipment (-9.8% vs -5.5%).

In contrast, mining and quarrying output continued to grow, but at a slower pace, rising 5.2% year-on-year compared with 7.7% in August. This reflected a sharp deceleration in the mining of metal ores (11.4% vs 62.3%) and a pronounced decline in the mining of coal and lignite (-16.7% vs -6.8%).

On a monthly basis, industrial production fell 2.6% in September, reversing a 1.6% increase in August. Over the first nine months of the year (January–September), industrial output was 3.9% lower than in the same period a year earlier.