Market Information Programs by Member Type: Service Supplier

A common market information question asked by NFPA members, as it relates to their membership benefits, is “What reports are available to my company?”  While dependent on your membership type, i.e. manufacturer, distributor, product supplier, etc., NFPA’s market information programs are broken into two types, participation-based and non-participation-based programs.

Now while SERVICE SUPPLIERS do not currently have a participation-based program associated to their member type, they are offered limited access to summary reports of participation-based market programs.  Below is a list of NFPA market information programs available to SERVICE SUPPLIERS, along with a short description.

To access our market information program menu, a general listing and access to all of NFPA’s market information reports, please click one of the links below.

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Important Reminder: NFPA’s market information programs are only available NFPA members.

Other “Market Information Programs by Member Type” articles include:

• Manufacturer
• Distributor
• Product Supplier

If you have any questions or would like to start participating in any NFPA market information program, please contact Eric Armstrong at earmstrong@nfpa.com or call 414-778-3372.

Non-participation-based programs: reports are available to all NFPA members, participation is not needed.

• The Confidential Shipments Statistics (CSS) Program* is the only monthly source of aggregated industry data for the US fluid power industry.  This report presents data on monthly orders and shipments collected from our participating US manufacturer members. It helps users understand trends and benchmark their own company’s performance against the overall industry performance.  Data is compiled by a 3rd party to maintain confidentiality, and the results are only available to CSS participants.

• Global Market Reports and Forecasts are a collection of global market reports that will allow you to investigate every angle of our global marketplace.  Information ranges from high-level macro data and leading indicators, to very detailed analysis and forecasts of popular customer markets, all broken down from a global perspective, including specific by-country analyses and forecasts.  The reports are prepared by Oxford Economics, one of the world’s foremost independent global advisory firms and provider of reports, forecasts and analytical tools on the global economy.

• NFPA Forecast: U.S. Customer Markets is supplied by Alan Beaulieu and ITR Economics. These quarterly reports include an outlook, trend graph and commentary on the current year and next two years ahead for fluid power, hydraulics, pneumatics + 29 major customer markets. The report also includes insights into current events, state-by-state economic topics, industry segment overviews, snap shot indicators, reader’s questions, and fed notes.

• NFPA Stats Dashboard is a web-based interactive tool that allows you to create a series of graphs from NFPA data sources that are saved to your member profile and only accessible through your own custom stats dashboard homepage.

• The Annual Survey of Fluid Power Manufacturers includes market and product level shipment dollar data for the U.S. fluid power industry and is a valuable tool for determining market size, share, and segmentation.

• Market Outlook Report (MOR) provides a macro-level look at U.S. and global economic indicators on a quarterly basis that includes historic & forecasted data with commentary.

• International Trade Data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau, Foreign Trade Division is summarized with a particular focus on fluid power products.  This report also includes country by country breakouts.

• The Capacity Utilization Report provides analysis of capacity utilization data from the Federal Reserve Board on a variety of different customer markets and general indicators every quarter.

* – Access does not include Trade Publications and other news outlets.