Floor Covering Stores

October 21, 2011 — The Editors

Today’s market size is based on sales through retail outlets dedicated to floor coverings, from carpets to tile, wood to laminates. Two year’s of estimated sales by these retail outlets in the United States are provides. Leading retailers in this category include ABC Carpet and Home, Empire Home Services, Floor and Decor, Lumber Liquidators, and Seagull Enterprises.

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 1998 and 2009
Market size: $17,013 million and $15,734 million respectively
Source: “Estimated Annual Sales of U.S. Retail and Food Service Firms by Kind of Business: 1998 Through 2009,” Annual Retail Trade Survey—2009, available in a PDF format here. For links to these data as well as earlier U.S. Annual Trade Survey data, check this Census Bureau site.
Original source: U.S. Bureau of the Census
Posted on October 21, 2011

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Windows

October 19, 2011 — The Editors

Window manufacturers have been hit hard by the decline in new home construction. Today’s market size is the total number of windows shipped by manufacturers in the United States for use in new construction in 2005 and an estimate of what that number will be for 2011. Leading manufacturers of window include Anderson Corp.; Atrium Windows and Doors; Jeld-Wen, Inc.; Marvin Windows and Doors, and Pella Corp.

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 2005 and 2011
Market size: 34.1 million and 11.9 million units respectively
Source: Andrew Martin, “In Company Town, Cuts but No Layoffs,” The New York Times, September 25, 2011, page B1 and B10, available online by a different title here.
Posted on October 19, 2011

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Czech Cement

August 25, 2011 — The Editors

Cement production in the Czech Republic has shown signs of a recovery in the first half of 2011. Today’s market size is the estimated total production of cement in Czechoslovakia in 2011.

Geographic reference: Czech Republic
Year: 2011
Market size: 3.3 million metric tons
Source: “Production rise is not the end of Czech tunnel,” Global Cement Weekly, August 24, 2011, page 2, available online here.
Original source: Jan Hrozek, Chairman of the Ceskomoravsky Cement Company
Posted on August 25, 2011

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Crushed Stone

August 12, 2011 — The Editors

Crushed Stone Sales Stats

The market for crushed stone grew steadily through the first half of the last decade peaking in 2006 and then falling sharply as the housing market bubble imploded. The pattern can be seen clearly in the graphic which presents curshed stone sales, or use by producers, measured in quantity as well as value for the years 1995 through 2009.

Today’s market size is the value of crushed stone sales by producers in 2009. The data do not include American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 2009
Market size: $11.3 billion
Source: 2009 Mineral Yearbook, “Table 1: Salient Crushed Stone Statistics,” page 71.5, April 2011, available online here.The graphic was produced with data from this report as well as earlier editions of the same report.
Original source: U.S. Department of the Interior, USGS

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Cement in China

July 7, 2011 — The Editors

The rise of China as an economic powerhouse has been a significant development in this century so far. Building an economic powerhouse requires building and building requires building materials, one of the oldest of which is cement. China has invested heavily in its cement production capacity, nearly tripling its clinker production capacity between 2000 and 2010 according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Clinker is, in the most basic sense, a coarse form of cement which has yet to be ground down into the fine powdery substance that is cement, the glue that binds all the ingredients of concrete together.

Today’s market size is the size of cement production capacity in China in 2010.

Geographic reference: China
Year: 2010
Market size: 2.41 billion tons
Source: “Chinese Production Statistics for 2010,” Global Cement Weekly, page 1, July 6, 2011.
Original Source: OneStone Research

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Copper

May 23, 2011 — The Editors

Copper mining history in the U.S.

The price of copper has been rising for a few years now so a 5% decline in the quantity of copper mined in the United States between 2009 and 2010 did not result in a loss of value in the total copper mined. Today’s market size is the quantity and value of copper mined in the United States in 2010. The graphic shows production and apparent consumption figures for a period of 30 years, from 1980 — 2010. Apparent consumption is a calculated figure based on production, plus imports, less exports plus or minus change in stock.

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 2010
Market size: 1.12 million metric tons valued at $8.4 billion
Source: “Copper,” Mineral Commodity Summary 2011, page 48, January 2011, available online here.
Original Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, USGS

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Cement

May 11, 2011 — The Editors

Cement Production Graph

A decade plus worth of production data on the cement industry shows a pattern with which we are familiar, the build-up and crash of the housing market. Most of the construction materials industries have seen similar patterns of growth and decline in the 2000s. Early data on 2010 show that sales of cement in that year reached a 27 year low, falling 45% (59 million metric tons) off the high reached in 2005.

The market size presented below is the number of metric tons of portland and masonry cement produced in the United States in 2010 and the approximate value of that cement if shipped from the mill the same year.

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 2010
Market size: 62.8 million metric tons with an approximate value of $5.7 billion
Source: “Cement,” part of an annual series titled Mineral Commodities Summaries, published by the U.S. Geographical Survey and available online here.
Original Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, USGS

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Steel Production

March 21, 2011 — The Editors

The production of crude steel around the world rebounded in 2010, rising 15% over the 2009 production levels. In terms of crude steel production by nation, China led the world in 2010 with 44.32% of world production, followed by Japan with 7.75%, the United States with 5.70% and Russia with 4.47%.

Geographic reference: World
Year: 2010
Market size: 1,414 million metric tons
Source: “World Crude Steel Output Increases by 15% in 2010,” January 21, 2011, p. NA. Available online here.
Original Source: World Steel Association
Posted on March 21, 2011

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Bricks

January 25, 2011 — The Editors

Today we look at the market size of another construction materials industry that has been hard hit by the housing crisis in the United States. The market size being presented here, for two different years, is the number of standard brick equivalents or SBEs shipped by the industry per year. It is worth noting that the interim years, between 1995 and 2009, saw strong sales and shipments—in the range of 8 to 9 billion SBEs—but did not skyrocket quite as much as some other construction material sectors.

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 1995 and 2009
Market size: 7.0 billion and 3.7 billion SBEs respectively.
Source: “Boral USA, Analyst Visit,” a presenation, table 60, September 2009.
Original Source: Boral Ltd. and Brick Industry Association

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Market for Cement in Brazil

November 19, 2010 — The Editors

Many nations in Latin America have recovered far more quickly from the global downturn that began in 2008 than has the United States. As a basic building material, the demand for cement serves as an indicator of how the construction industry is faring from country to country. Brazil’s construction industry is doing quite well and is forecast to grow sharply over the next five years. The market sizes presented here are based on demand for cement and the figure for 2015 is a forecast by the source.

Geographic reference: Brazil
Year: 2010 and 2015
Market size: 58 Million and 75 Million metric tons respectively
Source: “News North and South America: Brazil forecast to experience big growth,” Global Cement Magazine, November 2010, page 41.

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