Posts Tagged ‘market information’
New! NFPA Stats Dashboard
NFPA’s Stats Dashboard is now live! This interactive tool is available to all members. The dashboard highlights data from NFPA’s variety of reports creating a summary of the state of the industry. See the latest trends in shipments, forecasts, and markets all in one location. The dashboard makes it easy to find source data by…
Read MoreNew Oxford Economics Industry Forecasts
New Global Industry Forecasts are now available to all members on the NFPA member hub. These reports include a wide variety of information and analysis such as forecast drivers, subsector analysis, and global scenarios. See the latest growth drivers and constraints in each industry and prepare for the months ahead. The industries covered in these…
Read MoreNew! Compensation Benchmarking Reports Now Available
Created by Miller Resource Group, compensation benchmark reports are now available to NFPA members, focusing on eight important positions: The benchmarks correspond to six metro areas, and focus on employees with 4 to 6 years experience in mid-size companies. Benchmarks are based on broad surveys of compensation data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the…
Read MoreTrack Your Markets with NFPA’s Econ and Market Indicators (EMI) Report
NFPA’s Customer Market File and Trends in Capacity Utilization reports have been combined to create Econ and Market Indicators (EMI). This report contains public data in the forms of shipments, orders, industrial production, capacity utilization, and producer price indexes for a variety of popular fluid power customer markets. The EMI can be downloaded as an…
Read MoreFluid Power Hiring Activity Expected to Remain Strong
The latest results from NFPA’s State of the Fluid Power Industry survey give insight into members hiring plans and more. The graph below shows the monthly diffusion index for the question “what best describes your hiring plans over the next 3 months?”. The 3 answer options given to survey participants are: Hire Employees Keep Employment…
Read MoreNew! NFPA Stats Dashboard
NFPA’s Stats Dashboard is now live! This interactive tool is available to all members. The dashboard highlights data from NFPA’s variety of reports creating a summary of the state of the industry. See the latest trends in shipments, forecasts, and markets all in one location. The dashboard makes it easy to find source data by…
Read MoreNew 4th Quarter ITR Forecast Report: Track your 3/12 & 12/12 rates of change in the Stats Toolkit
ITR’s 4th quarter forecast report is now available for free to all members. This report forecasts over 30 different popular fluid power markets and identifies which phase of the business cycle they are in using 3/12 and 12/12 rates of change. NFPA’s Stats Toolkit allows members to automate these rate of change calculations and compare…
Read MoreLatest Industry Trends Data Now Available
The National Fluid Power Association (NFPA) is the leading source of hydraulic and pneumatic industry data. Plan Your Next Move NFPA’s industry reports, outlook surveys, forecasts, and data sources allow our members to understand trends and anticipate change with a variety of trend graphs and data analysis for fluid power products, customer markets, and economic…
Read MoreEcon and Stats Committee Updates
NFPA’s Econ and Stats Committee met in September following the IEOC to discuss the conference, future speakers, and the state of current programs. Results from the IEOC evaluation survey were shared with the committee and helped drive conversations about future speakers, topics, and more. As a result of the meeting, NFPA has confirmed a new…
Read MoreNFPA Board Meets; Advances Effective Forum and Educated Workforce Objectives
NFPA Well Positioned for Growth and Impactby Eric Lanke, NFPA President/CEO Back in June, our then-new Board chair, Jim Kaas, wrote about the discussions held at the Board’s annual strategic retreat, and many of the strategic initiatives the Board is helping NFPA move forward in service of NFPA members: Now it’s October, and the NFPA…
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