In addition to the decline in demand for labor, the manufacturing capacity utilization rate declined to 65.1 in June of 2009, the lowest level of the post-World War II period. (newyorkfed.org)
And larger businesses will unlikely increase investment spending sharply at a time when capacity utilization rates remain unusually depressed (Chart 26). (newyorkfed.org)
Ross said that the measures would boost US aluminum and steel capacity utilization rates — essentially, how much they produce. (vox.com)