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Industrial Forecasts & Analytics

Transform Data Into Insights, and Insights Into Impactful Decisions

Forecasting that combines trusted project intelligence, advanced analytics, and 40+ years of industrial expertise to help organizations anticipate market shifts and plan with greater precision.

Market intelligence for strategic planning

Power Your Growth Using IIR's Market Analytics Capabilities

IIR's Forecasts & Analytics solutions bring together global project and asset intelligence with leading-edge analytics tools to help strategy, planning, sales and business development teams evaluate market size, spending trends, production capacity, investment hotspots, new-build capacity, plant demographics, asset profiles and equipment installed base.

40+

Years of trusted data

12

Industrial Markets

1YR & 5YR

Actionable Forecasts

CapEx & OpEx

Spending Models

Forecast Platform Features

Power Your Strategic Decisions with Trusted Data

Our Market Analytics solutions synthesize our comprehensive project, asset, equipment and capacity databases to provide a multi-dimensional view of the global industrial landscape. By leveraging this granular data, we empower you to track evolving investment trends, monitor new capacity development and analyze shifting operational plant demographics with precision and confidence.

Industrial Market Sizing

Evaluate the size, scope and direction of industrial and energy markets across industries, sectors and geographies.

Capital and Maintenance Spending Analysis

Track where capital and maintenance investments are occurring and how spending patterns are expected to shift.

Production Capacity Trend Analysis

Understand capacity changes across industrial markets to identify growth, contraction and emerging supply trends.

New Market Theme Evaluation

Analyze emerging market themes, including energy transition activity, new technologies and evolving demand drivers.

Go-To-Market Planning

Identify which Project Owners are leading investment spending and who are ranked as the top Plant Owner / Operators.

New-Build Capacity Tracking

Monitor planned and active new-build projects to understand where future capacity is being added.

Plant and Asset Demographic Analysis

Assess plant, asset and equipment intelligence to better understand market composition and opportunity.

Equipment Installed Base Analysis

Identify where specific equipment exists across industrial facilities to support market planning and targeting.

The Research Behind The Forecasts

Forecasts Grounded in Verified,
Trusted Industrial Intelligence

Forecasts are only as strong as the data behind them. IIR’s Forecasts & Analytics solutions are powered by comprehensive capital and maintenance project data, plant intelligence, asset information and equipment data across global industrial markets.

IIR uses a consistent research methodology across its global offices. Data is gathered direct from source, telephone verified, frequently updated and supported by quality assurance standards before feeding analytics tools, forecasting models and proprietary factoring methodologies.

This bottom-up approach gives users a clearer view of not only how much spending is expected, but where it is occurring, when it may happen and which industries, sectors and geographies are driving it.

Direct Verification

Data is gathered direct from source, telephone verified and supported by consistent global research standards.

Granular Data Foundation

Forecasts are built from project, plant, asset and equipment intelligence tied to industrial activity across global markets.

Proprietary Methodologies

IIR combines analytics tools, forecasting models and factoring methodologies to translate verified data into market-level insight.

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Core Offerings

Forecasting &
Analytics Solutions

01

Industrial Spending Forecasts

Track capital and maintenance spending trends across 12 global energy and industrial markets.

IIR’s Industrial Spending Forecast helps users evaluate future capital and maintenance spending across global industrial markets.

The forecast compares projected industrial spending against historical trends and supports strategy and planning teams as they evaluate where and when market activity is expected to change.

Use this solution to answer:

  • How is capital and maintenance spending trending over the next five years?
  • Where and when are spending peaks and troughs being predicted?
  • Which industries, sectors and geographies should be on your radar?
  • How much demand may exist for your equipment and services?

IIR’s forecast model utilizes more than 40 years of historical project and plant data, along with current and future planned projects being actively tracked.

02

Equipment & Services Spending Forecasts

Build precise go-to-market strategies with customized forecasts for specific equipment and services.

IIR’s Equipment & Services Spending Forecasts help equipment and service providers understand how potential demand is projected to trend in line with broader industrial spending. These forecasts use IIR’s bottom-up factoring methodology, which draws from more than 40 years of historical global project and plant data, as well as current and future planned projects.

IIR offers a range of existing equipment and service factors and can design and build custom factors specific to a company’s business needs.

Use this solution to:

  • Size demand for specific equipment, materials or services
  • Support sales forecasting and go-to-market planning
  • Identify stronger industries, sectors and geographies
  • Compare current, 5-year future and 5-year historical demand
  • Apply factors at the individual project level within PECWeb
03

Customized Market Assessments

Explore spending, operational and future trends with expert-built data tailored to your market focus.

IIR’s customized Market Assessments help users understand the key trends and drivers affecting industrial spending. These assessments provide analysis of current industrial plant capital and maintenance spending trends over the near-term 12-to-24-month period, along with lead and lag indicators shaping investment activity.

Our customized Market Assessments include insight into feedstock supply, end-product demand, commodity prices, government regulation, policy changes and rolling 12-month project spending outlooks.

Our customized Market Assessments feature:

  • Capital and maintenance spending activity
  • Coverage across 12 industries
  • U.S. and Canada coverage for the North American Market Assessment Report
  • Lead and lag indicator dashboards
  • Market commentary and insight on industry trends and drivers
  • Optional quarterly calls with IIR industry experts upon request
04

Labor Analytics

Analyze labor market conditions, identify workforce constraints, and anticipate labor competition before it impacts project schedules, costs, and execution.

Forecast workforce demand, labor availability, and wage pressure using project-driven intelligence tied to real industrial activity. Connect labor supply, demand, wage trends, and project activity to identify emerging workforce risks and opportunities.

Our Labor Analytics and Forecasting solutions include:

  • Labor supply and demand forecasts by region and craft
  • Wage rate trends and projections for both union and non-union
  • Scenario-based labor forecasting for project planning
  • Regional labor market analysis tied directly to project activity
  • Flexible data delivery via reports, spreadsheets, and interactive tools

Forecast Customization

Forecast Demand for the Equipment, Technologies and Services You Provide

IIR’s forecasts can be further customized using our unique factoring methodology and approach, enabling customers to build greater precision and relevance into their decision-making. By sizing spending demand for specific equipment, technologies and services, IIR helps teams better understand future market opportunity and align their strategy, planning and go-to-market efforts with the industrial activity most relevant to their business.

Start with the Market View

Use the 5YR forecast to understand future industrial spending.

Apply Relevant Factors

Customize the forecast around specific equipment, technologies or services.

Focus Your Strategy

Identify where future demand aligns with your business needs.

Why Industry Experts Choose IIR

What Makes IIR's Forecast & Market Analytics Different?

IIR’s Forecasts & Analytics solutions are built on verified project, plant, asset and equipment intelligence, supported by consistent research standards, proprietary methodologies and more than 40 years of industrial market expertise.

Unmatched Data Depth & Breadth

IIR covers 12 energy and industrial markets, hundreds of sectors and thousands of industrial end-products, helping users understand how market shifts, including the energy transition, are affecting traditional and emerging markets.

Unshakeable Research Integrity

IIR uses a unified global research methodology with direct-from-source, telephone-verified data, high-frequency updates and quality assurance standards.

Proprietary Forecasting Methodologies

IIR combines proprietary forecasting and factoring methodologies with advanced analytics tools to deliver market sizing, spending forecasts and equipment-specific demand insights.

Customer-Centric Expertise

With more than 40 years of experience serving energy and industrial customers, IIR understands the research, data and analysis needed to support strategy and planning decisions.

Industrial Market Expertise

IIR brings together decades of internal expertise in research, analysis, technology and analytics to deliver industrial market insights for strategy, planning and growth.

Industry Coverage

Forecast Coverage Across 12 Global Industrial Markets

IIR's Industrial Spending Forecast covers 12 global energy and industrial markets.

Electric power generation facility

Electric Power

Generation, transmission & distribution, microgrids & battery storage

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Oil & gas storage terminal

Oil & Gas Terminals

Oil, gas, refined products & chemical storage

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Industrial pipeline infrastructure

Oil & Gas Pipelines

Oil, gas & refined products transmission

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Oil & gas production facility

Oil & Gas Production

Offshore & onshore production and treating facilities

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Alternative fuels industrial facility

Alternative Fuels

Renewable diesel, SAF, hydrogen and biofuel investments

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Petroleum refinery with processing units

Petroleum Refining

Refineries, upgrading units and downstream processing assets

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Chemical processing facility

Chemical Processing

Petrochemicals, specialty chemicals, plastics and fertilizers

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Mining & materials handling operation

Metals & Minerals

Mining operations, mills and materials processing facilities

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Pulp & paper industrial facility

Pulp, Paper & Wood

Pulp mills, paper production and wood products manufacturing

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Food & beverage production facility

Food & Beverage

Food processing, packaging and distribution operations

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Industrial manufacturing facility

Industrial Manufacturing

Durable and non-durable goods manufacturing facilities

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Pharmaceutical & biotech manufacturing

Pharmaceutical & Biotech

Research laboratories and pharmaceutical manufacturing plants

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Bring Better Market Answers to the Forefront

Industrial markets are evolving quickly. IIR's Forecasts & Analytics solutions help you understand where spending is headed, which markets are shifting and how future industrial activity may impact your business.

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Industrial Info Resources' Forecasts & Analytics solutions provide market analytics, industrial spending forecasts, equipment and services forecasts, customized market assessments and analytics tools that help companies evaluate future industrial market activity.

IIR's Industrial Spending Forecast tracks capital and maintenance spending trends across 12 global energy and industrial markets. It is available in 1YR and 5YR forecast timeframes, with the 5YR forecast providing five years of historical data and five years of forward-looking forecast data.

IIR's forecast model uses more than 40 years of historical project and plant data, along with current and future planned projects being actively tracked.

Equipment & Services Spending Forecasts estimate demand for specific equipment, materials and services based on IIR's global project and plant data and proprietary bottom-up factoring methodology.

Yes. IIR can customize the 5YR forecast by geography, industry, sector, generation fuel type, project type and equipment or service factor. IIR can also design and build customized factors specific to a company's business needs.

Market Assessments provide insight into industrial capital and maintenance spending trends, lead and lag indicators, market drivers, commodity trends, policy changes and rolling project spending outlooks.

IIR's Forecasts & Analytics solutions are used by strategy, planning, sales, business development, market analysis and executive teams that need to understand future industrial spending and market opportunity.

IIR's forecasts cover 12 global energy and industrial markets, including Electric Power, Oil & Gas Terminals, Oil & Gas Pipelines, Oil & Gas Production, Alternative Fuels, Petroleum Refining, Chemical Processing, Metals & Minerals, Pulp, Paper & Wood, Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotech and Industrial Manufacturing.