{"id":8614,"date":"2025-10-22T13:46:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=8614"},"modified":"2025-10-22T13:46:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:46:59","slug":"materials-chiefs-sound-alarm-over-stagnant-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/materials-chiefs-sound-alarm-over-stagnant-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Materials chiefs sound alarm over \u2018stagnant\u2019 market"},"content":{"rendered":"

Industry experts are warning about potential long-term materials supply problems as the current market remains “stagnant”.<\/p>\n

The Construction Leadership Council\u2019s Material Supply Chain Group painted a bleak picture in its latest update.<\/p>\n

The group said sales in the third quarter were flat or declining compared to 2024 and the market “remains one of the most challenging trading environments in over ten years.”<\/p>\n

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The lack of demand has seen many materials firms stop hiring new staff or upskilling existing workers.<\/p>\n

The group said: “There is therefore a genuine risk of a loss in both capacity and workforce that will lead to a more pronounced shortage in the medium-term, just when a recovering market can least afford it.”<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/OfMX0E1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Industry experts are warning about potential long-term materials supply problems as the current market remains “stagnant”. The Construction Leadership Council\u2019s Material Supply Chain Group painted a bleak picture in its latest update. The group said sales in the third quarter were flat or declining compared to 2024 and the market “remains one of the most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-8614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8615,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614\/revisions\/8615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}