What Is Driving Manufacturing Demand? Linking End-Use Growth, Capacity Utilization, and Investment C
Manufacturing demand is rarely driven by one macroeconomic number. Factories increase output when customers order more products, when downstream industries expand capacity, when inventories need replenishment, or when investment in new technologies creates entirely new production requirements. That makes manufacturing demand a combination of end-market growth and industrial utilization. The latest global data shows a modest but broad-based improvement. UNIDO reported that global manufacturing pr