Posts Tagged ‘market reports’
Fast Stats Feature: NFPA’s Trends in Capacity Utilization
The Trends in Capacity Utilization Report is a valuable indicator that predicts turning points for various economic factors to help prepare your company for future changes in manufacturing, employment and more. Recent report updates have shown bounce backs in almost all areas except for energy, including a more dramatic bounce back in capacity utilization for machinery industries,…
Read MoreDiscovering the Capacity Utilization Index
What you should know: CU data can predict turning points in general manufacturing trends, anticipate price inflation and foresee supply bottlenecks. CU data is included in NFPA’s Trends in Capacity Utilization. CU data is a strong economic indicator for fluid power. CU has an 91.8% correlation with Total Fluid Power Shipments. Capacity utilization index (CU),…
Read MoreStart 2021 Right With an Exclusive Data Tool
The Stats Toolkit is a cloud-based data analytics and visualization support tool that is available exclusively to NFPA members. This online platform expands our members’ economic view of their company by combining the user’s unique company data and NFPA data sources with popular analytical tools to identify market trends, recognize data relationships and develop custom…
Read MoreFluid Power Regional Demand Estimates Report Updated for 2020
Updated Report Now Available for Download The U.S. Fluid Power Regional Demand Estimates Report has recently been updated and is now available for download. This Excel-based report is prepared for NFPA by Oxford Economics and profiles the geographic distribution of fluid power products to end-use industries by state, including fluid power sales dollars, fluid power sales percentage,…
Read MoreNEXT WEEK: Get the Latest Economic Trends in the Economic Update Webinar
NFPA Economic Update Webinar: Risks and Opportunities in a COVID-19 Economy Featuring Catherine Putney of ITR Economics Thursday, October 29, 10:00 am Central Registration Open NO CHARGE to NFPA Members! Next week, Catherine Putney, an economist with ITR Economics, will help members gain critical insight into the economic risks and opportunities facing their organizations in a…
Read MoreDiscovering U.S. Industrial Production Index Resources
Industrial Production Index (IP) is a measure of output of the industrial sector of the economy and includes manufacturing, mining and utilities. It accounts for the bulk of the variation in national output over the course of the business cycle, making it an important tool for forecasting economic performance and a popular economic indicator for…
Read MoreSound Research is Key to the Reality of COVID-19’s Economic Impact
COVID-19 has injected a heavy dose of economic uncertainty into the fluid power industry, as well as the rest of the global economy, and has forced the supply chain to change how it approaches strategic planning and business management. The pressure to quickly adapt to stay afloat in the unsteady economy can cause business leaders…
Read MoreGet Extra Visibility at the 2020 IEOC
Image Credit: Stand Out by Sawtooth on Flickr.com, used under CC 2.0 license, no modifications made 2020 Industry & Economic Outlook Conference August 11-13, 2020 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM CT each day Virtual Delivery Registration Now Open As the most popular NFPA event each year, Industry & Economic Outlook Conference (IEOC) is the perfect venue to get…
Read MoreTop Reasons to Attend the 2020 IEOC
2020 Industry & Economic Outlook Conference August 11-13, 2020 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM CT each day Virtual Delivery Registration Opening June 23 NFPA’s 2020 Industry & Economic Outlook Conference (IEOC) is set to combine valuable networking opportunities with actionable economic insights, all on a virtual platform. There are many reasons this is NFPA’s most popular annual…
Read MoreTake Advantage of Curated Market Information Resources
As the leading source of fluid power market information in the U.S., NFPA supplies a variety of industry analysis and data resources as a benefit of NFPA membership. In addition to using member data collection, outside service agreements and public data extraction to create custom reports, we also maintain a curated list of outside resources…
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