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Construction product manufacturers endured a bruising end to 2025, with heavyside sales sliding sharply and lightside growth losing momentum, the Construction Products Association’s latest State of Trade Survey shows. In Q4, a net balance of 81% of heavyside producers said sales volumes fell compared with the previous quarter, which was …

The Construction Products Association has downgraded its Winter forecasts, expecting overall construction output to rise by just 1.7% in 2026, a significant drop from the 2.8% growth forecast in October. The slowdown in activity in key sectors has persisted and in the largest sector, private housing, there is little to …

The UK construction products manufacturing industry gained little traction in the third quarter of 2025, according to the Construction Products Association’s latest State of Trade Survey. Whilst there was growth in sales volumes reported over the quarter for both heavy side and light side manufacturers, the survey shows that, on …

Peter Caplehorn, director of the Construction Products Association, has written on the Association’s behalf to the Chancellor of the Exchequer ahead of next month’s Budget, stressing the importance of the construction and manufacturing sectors in helping to enable and support the country’s long-term productivity and economic growth. The letter points …

Pre-Budget jitters have seen growth expectations for construction output revised substantially down in the Construction Products Association’s Autumn Forecasts published today (October 27). Total construction output is now only forecast to grow by 1.1% in 2025 and 2.8% in 2026, which is a significant revision down from the 1.9% in …

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Construction products manufacturing returned to growth in the second quarter of 2025, according to the Construction Products Association’s (CPA) latest State of Trade Survey. The survey found a balance of 53% of heavy side firms reported construction products sales rising in 2025 Q2 compared with Q1. On balance, 33% of …

There was a third consecutive quarter of growth in construction product manufacturers’ sales, according to the  Construction Products Association’s State of Trade Survey for the fourth quarter of 2024. This was accompanied by broad expectations of continued growth over the next 12 months as the construction recovery accelerates.   In 2024 …

The UK construction industry is set for a gradual recovery in output for the next two years, according to the latest forecasts from the Construction Products Association, which predict total construction output growth of 2.1% in 2025 and 4.0% in 2026. The increase follows two challenging years that have particularly …

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future. The phrase doing the rounds at the end of last year was “Survive ‘till ‘25” – loads of companies just thinking that, if they can hang on in there through the difficulties of …