Quarterly trade magazine features news and information for material handling industry professionals, with topics covered in various issues of this publication including industry trends, solutions spotlights, fulfillment update, economic market analysis, technology, sustainability, human resources, and trade association news and events. Current and archived issues of this magazine are available free online.
Market Forecast
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Comprehensive quarterly report provides historical trend data and forecasts
for domestic production, imports, exports, and consumption over
the next twelve to eighteen months,
with product categories covered including conveyors
and conveying systems, industrial trucks,
tractors, trailers, and stacker machinery, overhead
traveling cranes, hoists, winches, and monorail
systems, and other equipment.
Annual Rate of Change (ARoC) Workbook
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Excel-based planning tool lets users construct a business cycle chart using their company's
financial data for comparative
analysis with the historical and forecast data from the forecast report
described above and also provides cycle chart comparisons with
five leading economic indicators and regional indicators of cyclical
changes in manufacturing, consumer sentiment, and non-residential
investment.
Market intelligence section includes information on U.S. factory shipments of electric rider, motorized hand, and internal combustion engine industrial trucks, world order and shipment statistics by region and class (Class 1 - 5), ITA business trends surveys, and "Outlook for the World" slide presentations for select regions (e.g., North America, Europe, China, Japan). All information is available free online.
Monthly and semiannual press releases provide summary booked order and billed sales statistics for nine classes of unit handling and four classes of bulk conveying equipment on a current and year-to- date basis and include comparisons to the same time periods in the prior year for trending purposes. Summary statistics are available free online, with more detailed statistics available to members only.
Freedonia Focus market research report analyzes demand and shipments at the manufacturer level, with information provided in the report including historical demand and forecasts by product segment (e.g., industrial trucks and tractors, automated storage/retrieval systems, conveying systems, hoists, cranes, and monorails) and market (e.g., durable/nondurable goods manufacturing, other industries).
Market analysis report provides industry statistics for a user-defined area on a national, state, county, metro area, or zip code level, with data provided including number of companies, market volume and sales trends, average company sales, sales per employee, staffing and employment trends, average employee wage, and business start up activity and failure rates. Sample report can be viewed online.
Financial benchmarking section of these reports provides an analysis of industry profit and expenses as a percentage of revenues for companies that manufacture products used to move or lift materials such as industrial trucks, tractor, trailer, and stacking machinery, conveyors and conveying systems, and overhead cranes, hoists, winches, and monorail systems. Sample report is available free online.
Forklift and Materials Handling Equipment Manufacturing
https://www.payscale.com/
Free online service provides salary, bonus, and hourly wage data for job positions in this sector such
as design engineer, mechanical engineer, manufacturing engineer,
sales representative, and service
technician, with employers for which salary or wage data is provided
including Hyster Company, The Raymond Corporation, Crown Equipment Corporation, and Mitsubishi
Caterpillar Forklift America Inc.
Conveyor Equipment Manufacturing
https://www.payscale.com/
Free online service provides salary, bonus, and hourly wage data for job positions in this sector such
as mechanical design engineer, controls engineer, applications
engineer, CNC operator, welder, and assembler, with employers
for which wage data is provided including Hytrol Conveyor Company Inc., Dematic Corp., Intelligrated
Inc., Intralox, L.L.C., Interroll Corporation, and Santa Rosa Systems,
Inc.