COVID-Proof Trends in Fluid Power Shipments

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In a continued annual news series on trends in fluid power shipments, we again examine three very consistent trends worth watching over the last twelve years using “month-to-month % change” analysis on historical shipments index data from NFPA’s Confidential Shipment Statistics Program. First, let us revisit the trends and historical analysis from last year’s article:…

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CSS Monthly Shipments: Covid-19 Continues to Have an Uneven Impact

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NFPA’s June 2020 Confidential Shipment Statistics (CSS) report, a monthly source of fluid power shipment and order data trends used to benchmark company performance, continues to highlight COVID-19’s uneven impact on the fluid power industry. Extreme year-to-year declines in May’s orders activity led to strong year-to-year declines in June shipments, with a noticeable exception in…

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CSS Monthly Shipments: COVID-19 Continues to Have Strong but Uneven Impact

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NFPA’s May 2020 Confidential Shipment Statistics (CSS) report, a monthly source of fluid power shipment and order data trends often used to benchmark company performance, continues to expose COVID-19’s impact on the fluid power industry with severe declines in year-to-year and year-to-date fluid power shipment and order trends. May shipments were down again, and orders…

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CSS Monthly Shipments: COVID-19’s Industry Impact Exposed in April

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NFPA’s April 2020 Confidential Shipment Statistics (CSS) report, a monthly source of fluid power shipment and order data trends that benchmark company performance, revealed COVID-19’s impact on the fluid power industry with extreme declines in month-to-month and year-to-year fluid power shipment and order trends. These types of declines in both trend analysis measures haven’t appeared…

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NFPA Recognizes Members for Consistent Data Reporting in the CSS Program

NFPA’s Confidential Shipment Statistics (CSS) program is the only monthly source of aggregated fluid power shipments and orders data that allows members to understand key industry trends and benchmark their own company’s performance. As NFPA’s flagship of market information services and primary data source of U.S. industry activity, it is extremely important that this participation-based…

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CSS Monthly Shipments: November Shipments Encounters Significant Declines

NFPA’s November 2019 Confidential Shipment Statistics (CSS) report, a monthly source of fluid power shipment and order data trends for benchmarking company performance, revealed substantial declines in month-to-month and year-to-year fluid power shipment trends. Double-digit declines in both trend analysis measures validated the effect on year-to-date trends dropping an entire percentage point or more across…

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Trends Remain Consistent in Fluid Power Shipments

Some time ago, in an article titled “‘A Sure Thing’ in Future Trends of Fluid Power Shipments”, I identified three very consistent trends in fluid power shipments spanning a ten-year period (2008 – 2017) using “month-to-month % change” analysis on historical shipments index data from NFPA’s Confidential Shipment Statistics Program.  Those trends and historical analysis…

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CSS Monthly Shipments: September Shipments Continue to Decline

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NFPA’s September 2019 Confidential Shipments Statistics (CSS) report, a monthly source of fluid power shipment and order data trends often used to benchmark company performance, continued to display decline in both shipments and orders trends. Contracting hydraulic order and shipment trends are contributing to the majority of year-to-year and year-to-date declining percentages of overall fluid…

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CSS Monthly Shipments: Looking for Signs of Light Among an August Slowdown

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NFPA’s August 2019 Confidential Shipment Statistics (CSS) report, a monthly source of fluid power shipment and order data trends often used to benchmark company performance, continued to display quicker rates of decline among orders. Diminishing orders have begun to directly affect shipment trends as some monthly comparisons to last year reach negative percentages in the double-digits for…

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