Advertising Agencies in the US

Weighing Up the Competition

This industry supplies downstream industries with pallets and containers to store and transport these consumer and industrial goods. Containers' weight and volume is expected to decline over this period as slow boats and ships will be replaced by high speed transoceanic vessels and airplanes in intercontinental freight. This means lighter weight materials, such as plastic, fiberglass and paperboard are likely to offer substantial competition to this industry.

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing mobile homes, non-residential mobile buildings, prefabricated wood buildings plus sections and panels for prefabricated wood buildings. The raw materials required to manufacture such products (i.e. mostly wood) are purchased from sawmills/planing mills, veneer, plywood and engineered wood product manufacturers as well as millwork enterprises. Other purchases are required to complete fabricated wood buildings and manufactured homes, such as kitchen and bathroom materials, carpets etc, but these are not reprocessed by the Mobile homes & prefabricated wooden structures Industry. The products made by this industry are sold to wholesalers, retailers and export markets.