Industrial output in 2026 stood below the level of the same month of the previous year in four of the six months that are published. The same ratio holds for the manufacture of transport equipment, that is for the branch that carries the largest part of demand for production halls in Slovakia. The last month filled in is June 2026 and the following months will arrive one at a time.
The frame: industrial output published as at September 2026
The index of industrial production is published monthly as a year-on-year figure, always against the same month of the previous year, where a value of 100 means exactly last year’s level and a value below 100 a fall against it. The unadjusted series was last filled in on 10 August 2026 and ends with June.
| Month of 2026 | Industry total | Transport equipment manufacturing |
|---|---|---|
| January | 102,1 | 104,0 |
| February | 97,0 | 92,7 |
| March | 99,4 | 94,8 |
| April | 96,6 | 94,6 |
| May | 97,4 | 97,5 |
| June | 102,4 | 101,8 |
The comparison base is not even. In 2025 the same index in the first half was 94,6 · 98,5 · 104,2 · 98,8 · 95,7 · 96,4 for industry as a whole and 112,2 · 111,7 · 120,7 · 105,1 · 96,7 · 100,9 for transport equipment. The June value of 102,4 therefore stands on a weak June of last year, and that is why a turn does not follow from it on its own.
October: the monthly series for July and August
The first thing to be filled in is two months of industrial production. Last year’s values for July and August were 96,5 and 92,9 for industry as a whole and 99,0 and 92,2 for transport equipment, the lowest in the whole published series of both indicators. The base is therefore low and a year-on-year index above 100 can be reached without any increase in volume.
Where it will show: in table `pm0043ms` of the DATAcube database. What it settles: whether June was a one-off or whether these are two consecutive months above last year. What it does not settle: the volume of production in absolute terms, which this series does not give.
Continuously: construction material prices
Producer price indices of materials are filled in monthly and were last updated on 28 July 2026. In June 2026 cement stood at 184,8 against 188,6 a year earlier, concrete products at 124,4 against 126,4, but iron and steel at 116,2 against 109,8. That is a fall of 2,0 % and 1,6 % alongside a rise of 5,8 % in the same month.
Where it will show: in table `sp1823ms`, which holds 37 CPA items. What it settles: whether the divergence between metals and mineral materials holds. What it does not settle: the construction cost of a hall, which depends on the composition of the structure and is in none of these series.
Autumn: quarterly series and the consultants‘ cycle
Quarterly data on building permits and monthly data on construction output will be extended by further periods; both are covered by a separate text on this site and here they are only a calendar item. Quarterly market overviews from the consultants and from the BRF and IRF forums come out in the January, April, July and October cycle, so the nearest one will bring the third quarter of 2026.
Where it will show: in press releases from CBRE, Colliers, Cushman & Wakefield and JLL; BRF and IRF have no portal of their own and are always cited through a consultant’s release. What it settles: take-up, vacancy and the share of renegotiations for the third quarter. What it does not settle: anything about industrial production, because these are two independent measurements.
January 2027: the enterprise register as at 31 December
Counts of enterprises by economic activity are updated once a year with a stock as at 31 December. According to the collection overview the last update of that table was on 30 January 2026 and covered the stock at the close of 2025, so the next one will show the stock at the close of 2026.
Where it will show: in table `og3803rr`. What it settles: whether the count of enterprises in manufacturing and in transport and storage continues in the same direction. What it does not settle: the size of enterprises, which the register does not give.
The calendar has one further property that is overlooked in planning. The Statistical Office’s tables carry the date of the last update, not an announced date for the next one, so periodicity is derived from the length of the series and from the interval between updates. A monthly series that ends with June and was filled in during August has a gap of roughly two months between the reference period and publication. Anyone planning a decision for a specific week has to allow for that gap in advance, because data for September will be available only in November and data for the fourth quarter only in 2027.
Sources and verification
| Indicator | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Year-on-year index of industrial production | SU SR, DATAcube, table pm0043ms | Unadjusted, ROMR = 100, series ends with June 2026 |
| Producer prices of construction materials | SU SR, DATAcube, table sp1823ms | Index December 2005 = 100, updated 28. 7. 2026 |
| Dates of last update of the tables | SU SR, DATAcube, collection overview | Shows the last update, not an announced next date |
| Quarterly cycle of the consultants | Data calendar of this site | January, April, July, October |
Difference of definitions. The year-on-year index of industrial production measures the ratio to the same month of last year, not to the preceding month, so a value above 100 on a weak base does not mean a rise in volume. The producer price index measures the price of a material, not the price of a building. Neither of these series is a measurement of demand for halls; that is take-up, which the consultants publish on a different cycle and with a different methodology. They cannot be substituted for one another and that is not done in this text.
The open question
If the manufacture of transport equipment spends a year below last year’s level, when will that show in the occupancy of production halls — and will it show at all in the series the consultants publish? Lease contracts in manufacturing run for years, so a fall in production need not release a single square metre during the whole period in which it lasts. The take-up series meanwhile measures new and renewed contracts, not the use of leased space, so an empty hall with a valid contract is indistinguishable in it from a full one. The reverse holds equally: a hall let five years ago and today running two shifts does not appear in this year’s take-up at all. Data that would separate those two things — occupancy in the sense of actual use — is published by nobody in Slovakia, not even the industrial production series, and none of the publications listed above will supply it before January 2027.
Materiál má informatívny charakter a nepredstavuje právne, daňové ani finančné poradenstvo.