North American Factory Ledger

What the ledger shows

Of thirty-six entries, exactly one has a dated, audited production figure on the way — Boxabl, because it is now a public company and must file — and one relocatable segment publishes fleet utilisation, because lessors always have. Every permanent volumetric manufacturer on this continent, from the largest platform to the smallest Quebec shop, reports output on its own terms or not at all. The two "capacity" figures that circulate most widely are a 2019 press release and a 2018 launch target.

This is why the sector's market-sizing depends on trade-body surveys rather than production statistics, and why nobody can answer the question a lender or a public buyer most wants answered: how much of this industry's capacity is actually busy? Until manufacturers publish, the honest answer is that no one outside their own finance departments knows — and the pattern of the past five years, in which factories with visible order books and prominent backers closed within months of a pipeline gap, suggests the utilisation figure would not flatter the industry.

Manufacturers: publish and we will list it

We will record any output or utilisation figure a manufacturer publishes, with its date and definition, and link to the source. Units shipped per quarter, square feet per month, line-days utilised — any consistent metric is better than none. Write to editor@volumetricbuilding.com. The first permanent-modular manufacturer in North America to publish audited quarterly output gets a profile.