Industry grows 1.4% in September, but manufacturing loses strength: INEGI | Periódico Zócalo | News from Saltillo, Torreón, Piedras Negras, Monclova, Acuña

The recent indicator of industrial activity in Mexico reflects a significant slowdown after six consecutive months of growth, signaling a critical transition in the country’s economic performance. Although annual growth persists, the deceleration in September suggests that traditional growth drivers are losing momentum, necessitating a reinterpretation of the sector’s robustness amid a volatile environment. The internal structure of growth reveals marked disparities: while construction leads the gains and certain technology niches show resilience, broad-based manufacturing faces deep and widespread contractions. This divergence indicates that the recovery is neither uniform nor balanced, but rather depends on specific areas that contrast with the sustained decline of basic industries and textiles, revealing structural vulnerabilities in the production chain. This analysis is relevant to open data science because official INEGI data allow these trends to be broken down at the subsector level, facilitating the early detection of anomalies and cyclical shifts. The availability of detailed time series is crucial for validating economic hypotheses, modeling accurate forecasts, and understanding whether recovery in technology-driven areas can offset or not the weakening of the rest of the industry, providing key transparency for evidence-based decision-making.

Source: zocalo.com.mx
Published on 2026-11-12

Industry grows 1.4% in September, but manufacturing loses strength: INEGI | Periódico Zócalo | News from Saltillo, Torreón, Piedras Negras, Monclova, Acuña

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