Manufacturing volumes bounced back in August after three months of decline, the Philippine Statistics Authority reported on Friday, but in value terms the sector was not doing good as last year.

Factory output as measured by the volume of production index (VoPI) rose 3.7 percent year-on-year from the revised 0.3-percent contraction in July, the PSA said.

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