Higher interest rates, supply shortages, and rising material prices, particularly for lumber, put a damper on new home sales in February.

Trends like sustainability and digitalization are going to dramatically change the chemicals and materials industry over the next 20 years, according to a report from Lux Research.

Strong demand stemming from low interest rates, favorable demographics, and a suburban shift for home building to smaller, more affordable housing markets helped to lift new home sales in January 2021, but rising lumber and material costs threaten to blunt this momentum.

The global glass bonding adhesives market is anticipated to expand at over 7% CAGR through 2030, according to a recent report by Fact.MR.

A study from InForGrowth reports that wearable device shipments will grow at a CAGR of approximately 22% between 2018-2021.

Rising material costs led by a huge upsurge in lumber prices, along with a resurgence of the coronavirus across much of the nation, pushed builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes down three points to 83 in January, according to the latest National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index.

Led by a solid, double-digit gain in single-family starts, overall housing starts increased 5.8% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.67 million units, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau.

The demand for reactive diluents was sluggish in 2020, but industry stakeholders are optimistic regarding its quick recovery.

IPC recently announced the November 2020 findings from its North American Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Statistical Program.