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Off-Highway Research chairman David Phillips was one of the inaugural inductees to the UK Construction Equipment Association's (CEA's) Hall of Fame, at a celebration dinner following the association's annual general meeting & conference in London on 22nd March.

The Annual Reviews from Off-Highway Research's Chinese, European and Indian Services and corresponding Database Services are now available to download. They are also available for non-subscribers to buy as stand-alone reports.

Construction equipment sales in India grew 17 per cent last year, building on the 36 per cent surge in sales seen in 2016. This took the market to 78,109 unit sales last year, a new record for India. This robust performance is expected to continue over the medium term, with sales forecast to exceed 100,000 units by 2022.

Latest data now available through Off-Highway Research's online database, as well as in traditional formats.

Global construction equipment sales rose 28 per cent last year to almost 894,000 units, according to Off-Highway Research. This was the highest the market has been since 2012, and was a marked turnaround form 2015 and 2016 when worldwide equipment sales bottomed-out at 702,000 units.

Construction equipment sales in China grew by a remarkable 81 per cent last year, signalling the end of a painful five-year recession.

More than 160,000 pieces of construction equipment were sold in Europe last year, a 13% rise on 2016.

More than 6,000 data points have been added or updated across our system, including final sales and production figures for 2017 and forecasts to 2022.

Demand is heading for 700 machines per year thanks to the mining, road building and defence sectors.

Off-Highway Research managing director, Chris Sleight, is one of eight contributors to a new blog post sharing market research tips. The blog is published by Marketresearch.com, an aggregator website selling a wide range of research products on different areas.