Singapore's manufacturing output increased 14.3% year-on-year in November, backed by increased outputs from several clusters, according to data from EDB Singapore on Friday.

Excluding the biomedical sector, industrial production rose 4.6% on year, with the volatile biomedical cluster's output expanding 79.3% from a year ago.

In addition to the biomedical cluster, output increased in the transport engineering, electronics, precision engineering and chemicals clusters, while general manufacturing contracted 4.8% during the month.

On a seasonally adjusted month-on-month basis, output fell 10.2% in November. Excluding biomedical manufacturing, output was down 2.5%, the data showed.