Excluding biomedical manufacturing, the output declined 4.3 percent year-on-year in September, compared to a revised 10.3 percent decrease in the previous month.
Meanwhile, on a seasonally adjusted month-on-month basis, Singapore's manufacturing output increased 3.7 percent in September. Excluding biomedical manufacturing, the output grew 5.9 percent.
As for the performance of different clusters, the electronics cluster's output contracted 9.6 percent year-on-year in September, while the biomedical manufacturing cluster's output expanded 21.9 percent in the month, the precision engineering cluster's output rose 4 percent, the transport engineering cluster's output grew 3 percent, the chemicals cluster's output fell 3.9 percent, and the general manufacturing industries cluster's output decreased 7.4 percent.
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