according to Federal Statistical Office of Austria Statistics released in April 19th, Austria industries in February 2011 Producer price index (CPI) EPI 2010) came to 102.9 points, an increase of 0.4 percentage points from last month (January 2011), up 5.3% compared with the same month last year (February 2010), the largest increase in the past 6 years.

The previous high point occurred in February 2005, when the index was also +5.3%. The industrial production price index in February was 5.2% in January 2011 and 5% in December 2010.

Statistics Bureau analysis pointed out that the biggest factor affecting the industrial production price index this month is raw materials. Semifinished product price The increase was about 8.1% higher than the same period last year.

Among them, "textiles and fibers" (+29.6%), "non-metal products and semi-finished products" (+25.2%), "metal products and metal processing" (+19.6%), "pig iron, steel, alloy" (+19.2%), "cast iron products" (+5.8%) and so on, have obvious gains. Only "ceramic building materials" (-2.4%), "paints, printing and dyeing pigments, fillers" (-0.9%) dropped slightly.

In addition, energy prices continued to rise this month, representing an average increase of about 8.2% over the same period last year. For example, the "cold and heat supply service" (+7.1%) and the "power and energy supply service" (+1.4%) have risen slightly. Overall, the proportion is not serious. According to the Bureau of statistics, if the energy price factor is not considered, the industrial production price index will increase by only 4.5% over the same period last year.

The statistics bureau also pointed out that, according to the data observed in the latest month of March, the prices of capital goods such as machinery and equipment were still stable (February 2011 +1.5%; January 2011 +1.5%; December 2010 +1.7%); in 2011 February, "steel and light metal products" (+4.5%), "other non specific industrial machinery equipment" (+3.2%), "car body, construction materials, trailers" (+2.7%) and so on, we could see slight rise, only "data processing equipment and its surrounding" (-1.6%) fell slightly.