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Manufacturing sales edged up 0.1% to $44.8 billion in June. Sales have advanced in 11 of the past 13 months since the low reached in May 2009.
Constant dollar manufacturing sales rose 0.7% to $41.7 billion in June. Constant dollar sales were 15.3% higher than in May 2009.
Sales gains were reported in 9 of 21 industries, representing 50.1% of total sales.
Industry results mixed
Although 9 industries reported increased sales in June, these were largely offset by declines in the remaining 12 industries.
Sales rose 4.8% in the paper industry. The increase mostly reflected higher sales volumes. Following the low reached in May 2009, sales have increased in 11 of the past 13 months.
Note to readers
Statistics Canada will be releasing revised monthly manufacturing data on September 15th in accordance with standard practices. Sales of goods manufactured, inventories, and orders in current and constant dollars will be revised back to January 2007 for unadjusted data and to January 2004 for seasonally adjusted data.
The revisions are based on three sources. The monthly data were compared with the latest information available from the Annual Survey of Manufactures and Logging (ASML). Revisions were made to the monthly data to improve their consistency with the ASML. Revisions were made based on new information from respondents and the availability of more up-to-date administrative data. The seasonal adjustment parameters were also reviewed.
The revised data will be available on CANSIM.
Non-durable goods industries include food, beverage and tobacco products, textile mills, textile product mills, clothing, leather and allied products, paper, printing and related support activities, petroleum and coal products, chemicals, and plastics and rubber products.
Durable goods industries include wood products, non-metallic mineral products, primary metals, fabricated metal products, machinery, computer and electronic products, electrical equipment, appliances and components, transportation equipment, furniture and related products and miscellaneous manufacturing.
Production-based industries
For the aerospace industry and shipbuilding industries, the value of production is used instead of sales of goods manufactured. This value is calculated by adjusting monthly sales of goods manufactured by the monthly change in inventories of goods in process and finished products manufactured.
Unfilled orders are a stock of orders that will contribute to future sales assuming that the orders are not cancelled.
New orders are those received whether sold in the current month or not. New orders are measured as the sum of sales for the current month plus the change in unfilled orders from the previous month to the current month.
Other industries reporting gains in June included furniture (+6.4%), fabricated metal products (+2.0%) and chemical manufacturing (+1.2%).
Sales declined 2.1% in the food industry and 1.5% in the petroleum and coal products industry.
Sales up in four provinces
In Manitoba, a 4.8% sales gain reflected a rise in the province's durable goods industries.
Sales in British Columbia advanced 2.1% in June as a result of increases in several industries. Sales in the province have risen in five of the past six months.
In Quebec, sales declined 0.2%, despite a 14.7% increase in the chemical manufacturing industry. Lower sales in food, petroleum and coal products and the primary metals industries contributed to the provincial decrease.
Ontario (-0.2%) also posted lower sales in June, with computer and electronic products, plastics and rubber products and the chemical manufacturing industries contributing to the decline.
Sales were also down in Saskatchewan (-1.4%) and Alberta (-0.3%).
Sales remained unchanged for the Atlantic provinces in June. Sales increases in Prince Edward Island (+7.1%) and New Brunswick (+0.2%) were offset by a sales declines in Newfoundland and Labrador (-1.6%) and Nova Scotia (-0.5%).
Inventory levels rise
Inventory levels rose 0.7% to $58.8 billion in June. This was the first increase since February, primarily reflecting a rise in the value of inventories held in the petroleum and coal products (+4.1%), chemical manufacturing (+2.4%) and wood products (+3.2%) industries. The increase in the value of petroleum and coal products inventories was fuelled by higher volumes held at several refineries.
Declines in the food industry (-1.4%) and the paper industry (-2.4%) partially offset the gains.
The inventory-to-sales ratio edged up to 1.31 in June. The value of the ratio has been relatively stable since March, after falling from its most recent peak of 1.63 in May 2009.
Unfilled orders increase
Unfilled orders increased 1.3% to $54.1 billion in June. Transportation equipment, machinery and fabricated metal product industries accounted for most of the advance. Since its most recent low of $51.3 billion in November 2009, unfilled orders have advanced 5.5%.
New orders fell 0.3% to $45.5 billion in June, the first decrease since March 2010.
Available on CANSIM: tables 304-0014, 304-0015 and 377-0008.
Table 304-0014: Canada data (sales, inventories, orders) by industry.
Table 304-0015: Provincial sales by industry.
Table 377-0008: Constant dollar sales, inventories and orders.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 2101.
Data from the July Monthly Survey of Manufacturing will be released on September 15.
For a more detailed synopsis of the trends and indicators that affected manufacturers in 2009, consult the article "Manufacturing: The year 2009 in review," released in Analysis in Brief on June 24, 2010 (11-621-M, free).
For more information, or to order data, contact the dissemination officer (toll-free 1-866-873-8789; 613-951-9497; fax: 613-951-3877; manufact@statcan.gc.ca). To enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Michael Schimpf (613-951-9832, michael.schimpf@statcan.gc.ca), Manufacturing and Energy Division.
Table 1
| June 2009 | May 2010r | June 2010p | May to June 2010 | June 2009 to June 2010 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seasonally adjusted | |||||
| $ millions | % change1 | ||||
| Manufacturing sales (current dollars) | 39,750 | 44,786 | 44,814 | 0.1 | 12.7 |
| Manufacturing sales (2002 constant dollars) | 36,775 | 41,426 | 41,707 | 0.7 | 13.4 |
| Manufacturing sales excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories (current dollars) | 36,312 | 39,015 | 39,084 | 0.2 | 7.6 |
| Inventories | 62,631 | 58,400 | 58,784 | 0.7 | -6.1 |
| Unfilled orders | 59,882 | 53,453 | 54,149 | 1.3 | -9.6 |
| Unfilled orders excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories | 59,180 | 52,800 | 53,475 | 1.3 | -9.6 |
| New orders | 40,984 | 45,638 | 45,509 | -0.3 | 11.0 |
| New orders excluding motor vehicles, parts and accessories | 37,642 | 39,875 | 39,759 | -0.3 | 5.6 |
| Inventory-to-sales ratio | 1.58 | 1.30 | 1.31 | ... | ... |
Table 2
| Major group of industries | June 2009 | May 2010r | June 2010p | May to June 2010 | June 2009 to June 2010 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seasonally adjusted | |||||
| $ millions | % change1 | ||||
| Food manufacturing | 6,877 | 7,118 | 6,969 | -2.1 | 1.3 |
| Beverage and tobacco product | 898 | 898 | 895 | -0.3 | -0.3 |
| Textile mills | 126 | 135 | 130 | -3.6 | 3.3 |
| Textile product mills | 133 | 156 | 153 | -2.1 | 14.7 |
| Clothing manufacturing | 214 | 181 | 173 | -4.7 | -19.3 |
| Leather and allied product | 30 | 30 | 29 | -2.9 | -1.1 |
| Wood product | 1,392 | 1,606 | 1,551 | -3.4 | 11.4 |
| Paper manufacturing | 1,995 | 2,253 | 2,362 | 4.8 | 18.4 |
| Printing and related support activities | 761 | 751 | 773 | 2.9 | 1.5 |
| Petroleum and coal product | 4,860 | 5,433 | 5,352 | -1.5 | 10.1 |
| Chemical | 3,418 | 3,649 | 3,693 | 1.2 | 8.0 |
| Plastics and rubber products | 1,528 | 1,769 | 1,743 | -1.4 | 14.1 |
| Non-metallic mineral product | 1,039 | 1,119 | 1,117 | -0.1 | 7.6 |
| Primary metal | 2,452 | 3,502 | 3,476 | -0.8 | 41.7 |
| Fabricated metal product | 2,373 | 2,460 | 2,509 | 2.0 | 5.7 |
| Machinery | 2,163 | 2,276 | 2,278 | 0.1 | 5.3 |
| Computer and electronic product | 1,378 | 1,300 | 1,322 | 1.7 | -4.1 |
| Electrical equipment, appliance and component | 787 | 782 | 776 | -0.8 | -1.4 |
| Transportation equipment | 5,603 | 7,548 | 7,595 | 0.6 | 35.6 |
| Motor vehicle | 2,274 | 4,055 | 4,056 | 0.0 | 78.3 |
| Motor vehicle body and trailer | 162 | 243 | 248 | 2.2 | 53.4 |
| Motor vehicle parts | 1,163 | 1,716 | 1,674 | -2.4 | 43.9 |
| Aerospace product and parts | 1,576 | 1,200 | 1,211 | 0.9 | -23.2 |
| Railroad rolling stock | 80 | 90 | 104 | 15.1 | 29.5 |
| Ship and boat building | 97 | 99 | 108 | 9.2 | 11.4 |
| Furniture and related product | 854 | 880 | 936 | 6.4 | 9.6 |
| Miscellaneous manufacturing | 868 | 940 | 980 | 4.3 | 12.9 |
| Non-durable goods industries | 20,841 | 22,373 | 22,273 | -0.4 | 6.9 |
| Durable goods industries | 18,909 | 22,412 | 22,540 | 0.6 | 19.2 |
Table 3
| June 2009 | May 2010r | June 2010p | May to June 2010 | June 2009 to June 2010 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seasonally adjusted | |||||
| $ millions | % change1 | ||||
| Canada | 39,750 | 44,786 | 44,814 | 0.1 | 12.7 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 420 | 456 | 448 | -1.6 | 6.7 |
| Prince Edward Island | 99 | 94 | 101 | 7.1 | 1.7 |
| Nova Scotia | 771 | 809 | 806 | -0.5 | 4.4 |
| New Brunswick | 1,272 | 1,458 | 1,461 | 0.2 | 14.9 |
| Quebec | 10,552 | 11,133 | 11,113 | -0.2 | 5.3 |
| Ontario | 17,291 | 20,789 | 20,753 | -0.2 | 20.0 |
| Manitoba | 1,248 | 1,145 | 1,200 | 4.8 | -3.8 |
| Saskatchewan | 922 | 992 | 978 | -1.4 | 6.0 |
| Alberta | 4,479 | 4,961 | 4,944 | -0.3 | 10.4 |
| British Columbia | 2,690 | 2,945 | 3,007 | 2.1 | 11.8 |
| Yukon | 2 | 3 | 3 | -10.1 | 14.7 |
| Northwest Territories and Nunavut | 2 | 1 | 1 | 19.9 | -37.0 |
