Packaging Machinery

July 27, 2011 — The Editors

Packaging Machinery Industry Shipments

Most products sold are packaged for shipping and additionally, for items sold through retail outlets, for presentation within a retail setting. All that packaging uses a lot of material and sophisticated machinery is used to actual do the packaging. The machines used to do the packaging—be that bottling, canning, labeling or wrapping—are what we look at in today’s market size post.

Today’s market size is the value of all shipments by U.S. manufacturers of packaging machinery in 2009. The graphic presents data on this industries shipments over the past decade and shows a pattern that bucks the trend seen in most U.S. manufacturing industries.

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 2009
Market size: $4.13 billion
Source: Release Date: 12/3/2010
Sector 31: Annual Survey of Manufactures: General Statistics: Statistics for Industry Groups and Industries: 2009 and 2008, 2009 Annual Survey of Manufactures, NAICS Industry 333993, data release date 12/03/2010, available online href="http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/IBQTable?_bm=y&-NAICSASM=333993&-ds_name=AM0931GS101&-ib_type=NAI
CSASM&-_industry=333993&-_lang=en">here. Data used to produce the graph come from a series of Census Bureau reports that have been combined with other industry data and presented with a long historical perspective in a work edited by Joyce P. Simkin titled Manufacturing & Distribution USA, Sixth Edition, published by Gale—Cengage Learning in 2011, Volume 2, page 1115.
Original source: U.S. Bureau of the Census
Posted on July 27, 2011

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Snowmobiles in the United States

March 16, 2011 — The Editors

The United States is a country that loves its motorized vehicles. In rural regions of the country where snow covers the landscape for nearly half the year, snowmobiles serve as both a sporting entertainment as well as a working vehicle. The United States is the largest national market for snowmobiles.

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 2010
Market size: 48,599 snowmobiles sold for an estimated retail value of $414 Million.
Source: “Snowmobile Statistics,” International Snowmobile Manufacturers Association, available online here.

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Snowmobiles in Canada

March 15, 2011 — The Editors

As a country with vast expanses of land, often covered by a layer of snow, it is no wonder that Canada is the second largest national market for snowmobiles. What is remarkable is that in 2010 one snowmobile was sold in Canada for ever 912 people. So, Canada is by far the leading national market for snowmobiles on a per capita basis.

Geographic reference: Canada
Year: 2010
Market size: 37,670 snowmobiles sold for an estimated retail value of $374 Million.
Source: “Snowmobile Statistics,” International Snowmobile Manufacturers Association, available online here.

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Snowmobiles

March 14, 2011 — The Editors

The United States and Canada are by far the two largest national markets for snowmobiles in the world. The United States
accounted for 44% of all snowmobile unit sales in 2010 while Canada, with 0.5% of the world population, accounted for 34% of all snowmobile unit sales.

Geographic reference: World
Year: 2010
Market size: 111,492 snowmobiles sold.
Source: “Snowmobile Statistics,” International Snowmobile Manufacturers Association, available online here.

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Industrial Scrubbers

January 21, 2011 — The Editors

The sorts of scrubbers we’re looking at here are a diverse assortment of complex pollution control devices. They are used to control—reduce and capture— pollutants that are emitted during an industrial process. The market size presented here is based on an industry projection.

Geographic reference: World
Year: 2012
Market size: $6.5 Billion
Source: Water World, October 2009
Original Source: McIlvaine Company

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Size of the Farm Equipment Market in China

April 2, 2010 — The Editors

Market size is based on a projection by the source.
Geographic reference: China
Year: 2012
Market size: ¥118 Billion
Source: “Agricultural Equipment in China,” June 2009, p. NA
Original Source: Freedonia Group

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