Ceiling Product Demand to Reach $2.4 Billion in 2021

Diverging Outlooks for Fiber Cement Roofing and Siding Anticipated by The Freedonia Group

September 27 2019

Global demand for fiber cement is forecast to reach 31.8 million metric tons in 2023, according to The Freedonia Group’s new Global Fiber Cement study. While roofing and siding will remain the two largest applications for fiber cement going forward, their outlooks will differ.

Strong Growth Opportunities Expected for Global Power Lawn & Garden Equipment Markets

September 27 2019

The US and Western Europe will continue to drive expansion in the global power lawn and garden equipment market, which is forecast to grow 2.6% through 2023 to $26.4 billion.

Mature Market Developments Driving Value of Global Pharmaceutical Packaging Demand

September 27 2019

As major drug makers from Johnson & Johnson to Purdue Pharma face mounting legal challenges for their role in the US opioid epidemic, suppliers of the $94 billion global pharmaceutical packaging industry are using innovation to comply with regulations aimed at preventing such crises in the future.

3 Key Reasons the Mature Industrial Fasteners Market will Continue to Grow

September 20 2019

According to Industrial Fasteners, a new study from The Freedonia Group, the industrial fasteners market in the US is mature but still growing, at a rate of nearly 3% per year through 2023.

Amazon Pushing a Phase-Out of Corrugated Boxes in Global E-Commerce

September 20 2019

The corrugated box, the primary vessel of e-commerce delivery, has been instrumental to the gradual chipping away of brick-and-mortar’s dominance of retail over the past decade: durable to ensure that online orders arrive intact, lightweight to keep shipping costs down, and opaque to protect customer privacy and prevent theft. However, a number of packaging innovations – spurred in part by Amazon’s desire to boost e-commerce’s environmental profile while further reducing operating costs and increasing customer convenience – could mean the beginning of the end for the tried-and-true packaging format in e-commerce.