Recent CPCA Reports 2021 CPCA Process Market Forecast This year’s industry forecast assumes a smooth recovery from the pandemic, beginning in late 2020 and early 2021, with the total market value recovering to 2019 levels about the end of 2022. We’ve used basic industry production, capacity utilization, spending, economic, etc. trends [...]

Recent CPCA Reports 2022 CPCA Annual Market Forecast This year’s industry forecast includes a greater consideration of non-process industry factors. In addition to the supply chain issues, worker shortages, and capital discipline we have discussed in the past, we are now faced with the Russian Invasion of the Ukraine and stubbornly [...]

Recent CPCA Reports According to CME, manufacturing output was up in 7 of 11 major subsectors. Motor vehicle and parts output rose 5.1%, its first increase in six months. The industry continues to be battered by a global shortage of semiconductors, but it enjoyed a temporary reprieve in March. However, even with this [...]

Recent CPCA Reports

Recent CPCA Reports Canadian Economy Posts Record Decline in Second Quarter - September 2020 According to CME, real GDP in Canada plunged 11.5% in the second quarter, the sharpest quarterly decline on records going back to 1961. Expressed at an annualized rate, the Canadian economy shrank 38.7%. HIGHLIGHTS Most GDP components also [...]

Recent CPCA Reports Labour Analysis January 2021 Canada’s labour market recovery stumbled in December, with employment falling by 62,600 (-0.3 per cent). This was the first decline since April. With these losses, employment last month was 3.3 per cent off its pre-pandemic level. The Canadian economy is being hit hard by [...]