"...The latest revisions to our forecasts for 2012 reflect the heightened risks and uncertainty facing the sector over the next 12 months..."
Welcome to the fourth and final edition in 2011 of Manufacturing Outlook, our quarterly report on the trends in UK manufacturing produced by EEF in partnership with BDO.
Our latest survey shows that the output and orders balances have fallen short of previous quarter’s expectations with balances falling back to single digits for the first time since 2010q1. Moreover, a balance of companies expects conditions to be flat going into 2012. The latest revisions to our forecasts for 2012 reflect the heightened risks and uncertainty facing the sector over the next 12 months.
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