Billing and hours worked in production vary shortly, while machinery use shows retraction and reinforces the impact of monetary policy
The Brazilian industrial activity began the 2nd semester with a scenario of stability, reported the (National Confederation of Industry) this Thursday (9.Set.2025).
Most of the indices did not show large variations from June to July, except UCI (Use of Installed Capacity), which fell 0.4 percentage point and reached 78.2%.
In Analysis of Industrial Indicators, CNI Policies and Industry Specialist Larissa Nocko said the real revenue of the transformation industry remained stable from June to July.
“Employment, the number of hours worked in production, salary and the average income of workers, all these [indicadores] showed stability ”, declared. UCI had negative variation in both monthly and annual comparison.
Despite the loss of recent pace, accumulated performance from January to July 2025 is still higher than the same period of 2024. There were advances in actual revenues (5.1%), hours worked in production (2.5%) and industrial employment (2.3%).
The labor market, although heated in the general economy, gives signs of challenge in the transformation sector.