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Updated Friday, December 12th, 2025
Welcome to our weekly rundown of the most in-demand industrial products and services in the U.S. right now. At MNI, as well as providing comprehensive profiles of 360,000+ industrial businesses in the U.S., we also keep track of what equipment, parts, and services millions of industrial buyers are searching for across 11,000 distinct product and service categories on our industrial marketplace IndustryNet.
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Bearings (+440.0%): Searches for bearings jumped this week, led by aerospace bearings and ball bearings.
Plastics (+400.0%): Plastics demand climbed sharply, driven by molded plastics and decorative plastics.
Fasteners (+340.0%): More companies were looking for fasteners, especially adhesive bonded fasteners and construction fasteners.
Heat Treating (+316.7%): Heat treating saw a strong lift this week, led by aerospace heat treating, wood heat treating, and austemper processes.
Labels (+282.5%): Labels were in big demand this week, led by bar coded labels, consecutively numbered labels, and custom labels.
Additives (+263.6%): Searches for additives rose this week, driven by plastic additives and sand additives.
Food Products (+256.5%): Food products surged this week, led by canned food products, Polish food products, and Mexican food products.
Machining (+210.0%): Machining gained momentum this week, led by aerospace machining and 2-axis machining.
Buildings (+125.0%): Buyers were on the hunt for buildings, with searches up 125.0%, led by modular buildings, prefabricated buildings, and prefabricated metal buildings.
Contract Manufacturing (+118.8%): Contract manufacturing increased this week, led by electronics contract manufacturing and metal contract manufacturing.
Plastic Injection Molding (+100.0%): Plastic injection molding activity rose, led by short run injection molding and long run injection molding.
Packaging (+83.3%): Packaging demand moved higher, led by corrugated packaging and private label packaging.
Sheet Metal Fabrication (+66.7%): Searches for sheet metal fabrication increased, led by custom sheet metal fabrication and precision sheet metal fabrication.
Containers (+66.7%): Containers saw higher demand this week, led by plastic containers and steel containers.
Coatings (+57.4%): Searches for coatings increased this week, led by powder coatings and industrial coatings.
Steel (+46.6%): Steel demand climbed this week, led by flat rolled steel and hot rolled steel.
Lubricants (+42.1%): Lubricants saw increased interest, led by industrial lubricants and compressor lubricants.
Metal Coating Services (+40.0%): More companies were looking for metal coating services, led by industrial metal coating services and protective coating services.
Plating (+36.4%): Plating gained this week, led by electroplating and aerospace plating.
Contractors (+33.9%): Contractor searches rose this week, led by building contractors and general contractors.
Powder Coating (+31.4%): Powder coating increased this week, led by industrial powder coating and custom powder coating services.
Lumber (+31.3%): Lumber demand climbed this week, led by industrial lumber and hardwood lumber.
Engines (+30.6%): Engines saw increased interest, led by diesel engines and industrial engines.
Controls (+27.0%): Controls moved up this week, led by industrial controls and electric controls.
Pumps (+21.4%): Pumps increased this week, led by hydraulic pumps and centrifugal pumps.
Batteries (+16.7%): Battery searches rose this week, led by automotive batteries and solar batteries.
Metal Fabricating (+11.1%): Metal fabricating increased modestly, led by precision metal fabricating services.
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Editor's note: This article is updated with new statistics weekly.