Back in January, Stone World published its annual “Fabricator Market Forecast,” a survey conducted by BNP Media (Stone World’s parent company) that is sent to thousands of fabricators across the America. The responses that we received were extremely upbeat — especially considering how difficult the last five or six years have been. In fact, a total of 51% of those polled said that they were planning to invest in
machinery in 2013.
To be perfectly honest, this is not the first time that we saw optimism for the future, but the fabricators we polled also had specific reasons for their responses. More than half of the fabricators participating in the survey said that business grew in 2012 (53%), and 68% of them expected growth this year.