Manufacturing

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by Louise Maureen Simeon (The Philippine Star), 9 Jul 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The country’s manufacturing output posted a massive rebound in May largely due to low base effects, supported by the easing of quarantine restrictions which saw most industry groups recording significant gains.

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By Prinz Magtulis(Philstar.com), 7 May 2021 Overall, the volume of production index— a gauge of manufacturing output— slumped 73.4% year-on-year in March, its worst performance in 9 months, the government statisticians reported on Friday. MANILA, Philippines — Factories continued to pull back from producing goods in March, with their declining trend turning for the worst,…

by Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star), 30 Apr 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Japanese firm Leading Co. Ltd. plans to invest in wiring harness manufacturing operations in the Philippines, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said.

by Ian Nicolas Cigaral (Philstar.com), 5 Feb 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Local factories ended last year with a more tempered slump in output, as a seasonal uptick in demand during the holidays provided the impetus to manufacturers to pick up the slack in December.

by Ian Nicolas Cigaral (Philstar.com), 21 Jan 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Nissan Motor Philippines became the third car manufacturer in 3 years to halt assembly in the Philippines, highlighting the struggles of the broader automobile industry that government has been trying to revive for years.

by Ben O. de Vera, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 5 Dec 2020 The country’s factory output volumes and their values further contracted in October as 15 industries posted lower year-on-year production, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Friday.

by Lourdes O. Pilar, BusinessWorld, 9 Nov 2020 THE COUNTRY’S factory output contracted for the seventh straight month in September, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Thursday.

by Czeriza Valencia (The Philippine Star), 3 Nov 2020 MANILA, Philippines — The downturn in output of the Philippine manufacturing sector was among the steepest in the world in the first nine months of the year, according to IHS Markit.

by Roy Stephen C. Canivel, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 24 Oct 2020 A Japanese company is investing P230 million in the Philippines for an automotive wiring harness and components manufacturing facility, the Board of Investments (BOI) said.

by Ben O. de Vera, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 5 May 2020 Factory production declined in March as supposedly nonessential manufacturing ground to a halt at the start of a lockdown meant to stop transmission of SARS Cov2, the virus that causes the disease COVID-19.

By: Roy Stephen C. Canivel, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 6 Mar 2020 With local factories still dependent on the input of coronavirus-hit China, a United Nations body dealing with trade issues sees Philippine exports cut by about $300 million this year.

By Elijah Felice Rosales, Business mirror, 26 Feb 2020 THE country’s trade chief is eyeing to craft a policy that requires all manufacturers to localize at least 50 percent of their products to support the purchase from domestic suppliers.

By: Maricar Cinco, Roy Stephen C. Canivel, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 24 Feb 2020 More than a hundred workers of Honda Cars Philippines Inc. (HCPI) were holed up on Sunday inside the car factory in Santa Rosa City, Laguna province, shocked at the announcement that the Japanese company’s 28-year-old production plant in the country would close…

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By: Ben O. de Vera, INQPhilippine Daily Inquirer, 15 Feb 2020 Among domestic industries, manufacturers of fabricated metals would be most badly hit by supply chain disruptions being caused by a shutdown among Chinese factories due to the COVID-19 outbreak, London-based Capital Economics said.

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by RSJ, GMA News, 5 Feb 2020 Philippine manufacturing fell for the 13th straight month in December, data released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) on Wednesday showed.

By Cai Ordinario, Businessmirror, 20 Jan 2020 A ROBUST manufacturing sector is no longer the “silver bullet” that developing countries can use to escape the middle-income trap, according to experts from the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

January 7, 2020 An industrial policy propelled by innovation is needed to drive the country’s manufacturing growth amid the bleak near-term outlook of the sector, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said.

A once-flourishing industry mounts a comeback with focus on quality rather than price By: Matthew Reysio-Cruz, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 25 Dec 2019 LIFETIME COMMITMENT For Neil Nepomuceno, a second generation shoemaker, Marikina shoes are here to stay. MANILA, Philippines — The story of shoemaker Neil Nepomuceno’s family is, in a way, the story of a…

By: Roy Stephen C. Canivel, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 14 Dec 2019 The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) will spend up to P30 billion to help innovative manufacturers in the remaining years of the Duterte administration.

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by The Nation/Asia News Network, 21 Oct 2019 BANGKOK — An increasing number of manufacturers are moving their production bases from China and Hong Kong to Thailand due to the US-China trade war, the Board of Investment (BOI) has said.

The region is losing out to Africa and elsewhere in the race to attract manufacturing investment. By Irene Yuan Sun, 6 Oct 2019 Vietnam seems to be the consensus pick for winner of the U.S.-China trade war, as Chinese and other manufacturers shift production to the cheaper Southeast Asian nation. If there’s a loser, at…

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by Czeriza Valencia (The Philippine Star), May 8, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — Manufacturing output declined both in terms of volume and value in March mainly due to decreased activity in the food, furniture, basic metals and petroleum sectors, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported yesterday.

by Richmond Mercurio (The Philippine Star), Jun 24, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) is keeping a close watch on various „priority“ industries in the local manufacturing sector for possible anti-competitive practices.