Mordor Intelligence

US tractor sales are down 9.1% this year. Combine sales are down 25.3%. By most measures, that's a market in retreat. Except one part of it isn't. Automatic and precision equipment keeps growing, even as everything else pulls back. Here's why the slowdown and the growth are both true at once. 👇 #AgricultureTrends #FarmTech #Marketintelligence #AgTech #IndustryTrends #MordorIntelligence

A humanoid robot now costs less than a used car. One Chinese manufacturer just priced an entry-level humanoid at $27,512. A few years ago, that would've sounded impossible. It's happening at the exact moment factories can't find enough workers, over 2 million manufacturing roles sat unfilled across G7 countries last year alone. Cheaper robots. Fewer available workers. That combination is reshaping the entire robotics market faster than most people realize. Swipe through 👉 Full market data and forecasts through 2031 in the comments/link below. #Robotics #Automation #Manufacturing #FutureOfWork #MarketIntelligence #MordorIntelligence

83% of security teams have already adopted AI. The staffing crisis was supposed to ease. It didn't. It moved. Teams don't need more people watching alerts anymore. They need people who can supervise what the AI is doing, a much smaller, much harder to hire pool. Here's where the real gap sits now. 👇 #Cybersecurity #AI #Hiring #MarketIntelligence #MordorIntelligence

The $100K H-1B fee is still tangled up in court, struck down, then paused, with an appeal still pending. Nobody knows exactly how it lands. Doesn't matter much either way. Only 85 companies ever actually paid it. Everyone else just stopped filing and rerouted the work to India instead. That shift isn't waiting on a court decision. Here's what most companies are still getting wrong. 👇 #Immigration #Workforce #GCC #MordorIntelligence #MordorInsights #Marketintelligence

This year, we worked with a packaging manufacturer to trace their resin exposure back to the Gulf naphtha crackers feeding their suppliers. What we found mattered more than the price spikes that were getting most of the attention. Swipe through for what we found. Full brief linked in comments.    #Petrochemicals #Chemicalsandmaterials #SupplyChain #Procurement #Naphtha #MordorIntelligence #Marketintelligence

Anthropic went from 10 H-1B filings to 59. OpenAI went from 20 to 63. Meanwhile, the top Indian IT services firms saw approvals fall 37%. Same visa program, two opposite strategies. One side is sponsoring more, the other is exiting. We break down why below in comments #H1B #Immigration #WorkforceStrategy #GCC #FutureOfWork

Roughly 60% of Asia's naphtha imports originate in the Gulf. When that route was disrupted this year, the question for resin buyers wasn't only price, it was origin. Our latest Strategic Intelligence Brief traces resin supply back through the cracker to its feedstock source, and what that means for packaging, medical, and automotive sourcing going forward. Read the full brief. Link in comments. Himanshu Vasisht #Petrochemicals #Chemicalsandmaterials #SupplyChain #Procurement #Naphtha #Ethylene #Polymers #MordorIntelligence #Marketintelligence

Cocoa's down 60%. Coffee's down double digits. Your cup isn't. That gap won't stay open. Someone reprices first and wins on value. Everyone else gets stuck explaining last year's prices. Here's the math on what's actually happening to margins right now. 👇 #FoodService #Restaurants #Coffee #Marketintelligence #Mordorintelligence #foodandbeverages

Your last oil change probably cost more than the one before it, and it's not your mechanic. This spring, Toyota issued an official bulletin flagging a raw-material shortage in the oil going into their own vehicles. Not a recall. A supply problem serious enough to put in writing. Turns out the industry spent years pushing everyone toward exactly the oil that's now hardest to get. Here's what's actually going on. 👇 Full market data and forecasts through 2031 in the comments/link below. #Lubricants #AutomotiveIndustry #SupplyChain #MarketResearch

A sustainable substitute isn't shelf-ready the moment it's cheaper or greener. It still has to clear validation, and that process runs on its own timeline that no budget can speed up. That's the real reason large parts of packaging portfolios can't shift as fast as sustainability targets assume. Our latest Strategic Intelligence Brief maps exactly which applications are validation-bound and which are ready now. Read the full brief. Link in comments. #PackagingIndustry #SustainablePackaging #SupplyChainRisk #StraitOfHormuz #MordorIntelligence #Marketintelligence