Chemicals output in the 19-country eurozone rose by 1.6% in November, month on month, the EU's statistical office Eurostat said on Wednesday, with growth slowing after a resurgence of the coronavirus.
All the major chemical producing countries posted lower growth in chemicals output during November.
In the wider 27-country EU, chemicals output rose by 1.5%.
In November, some European countries reimposed lockdown measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus, and the restrictions have become stricter in December and January.
The measures, however, have mostly affected the services sector and industry across the eurozone has fared better this time than in the first wave of lockdowns which were imposed in the second quarter of 2020.
Growth in chemicals output was lower than the industrial sector as a whole -eurozone industrial production rose 2.5% month on month in November, and increased 2.3% in the EU.
Compared with November 2019, however, output remained lower–by 0.6% in the eurozone and by 0.4% in the EU.
