The international financial services company reported this week that Poland's manufacturing sector contracted for the 25th successive month, the longest sequence since the survey began in 1998.
S&P Global said that new orders, exports, output and employment all declined at faster rates during the month, and purchasing activity fell for a record 24th month running.
"More positively, inflationary pressures were muted and the 12-month outlook improved slightly," it added.
Paul Smith, economics director at S&P Global Market Intelligence, was cited as saying that Poland's manufacturing downturn showed no sign of ending in May.
"The weaker Polish data are at odds with the latest flash eurozone figures, as manufacturing production in the single currency bloc moved towards stability," he added.
The PMI is a composite indicator of manufacturing performance evaluated on the basis of new orders, output, employment, suppliers’ delivery times and stocks of purchases.
Any figure greater than 50 indicates overall improvement of the sector.
Poland’s PMI in April 2020 fell to its lowest level on record amid coronavirus fears, sinking to 31.9 from 42.4 a month earlier at the height of the COVID-19 crisis.
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Source: IAR, PAP, pmi.spglobal.com