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Manufacturing output advanced further (5.4% compared to 1.6% in August), and production declined at a softer pace for both, mining and quarrying (-9.2% compared to -12.8%) and electricity, gas and water supply (-2.5% compared to -5.1%).

On a monthly basis, industrial production went down 0.3%, following a 2% fall in the prior month, the Ljubljana-based SURS said on Friday.