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Vol. 13 / Issue 11 / February 2023
REGIONAL NEWS
NORTHEAST 2023 Educational Slate Announced Anticipation for the Alliance of Automotive Service Providers of New Jersey’s (AASP/NJ) flagship event, the NORTHEAST® 2023 Automotive Services Show—set for March 17-19 at the Meadowlands Exposition Center (MEC) in Secaucus, NJ—has reached new heights with the unveiling of this year’s educational slate, sponsored by AirPro Diagnostics.
Romans Group Releases 2021 Profile of the Collision Repair Marketplace The Romans Group announced its 16th annual white paper, A 2021 Profile of the Evolving U.S. and Canadian Collision Repair Marketplace, is now available. The pinnacle year for the collision repair industry was 2019, with an alltime high total addressable market (TAM) of $38.3 billion. Repair facilities were flush with repairable vehicles and had the manpower and parts to service the demand. The recovery years of 2021 and 2022 were and continue to be awkward and choppy, as the collision repair industry attempts to bounce back within the constructs of numerous macro industry challenges and opportunities, U.S. economic and geo-political headwinds despite the many post-pandemic recovery advances within the collision repair
industry and throughout the broader interconnected auto physical damage landscape. In 2021, despite a continued reduction in repairable claims, the industry’s TAM recovered to $38.6 billion despite fewer repairable claims, which were primarily supported by an offset increase in higher severity.
Year after year, the courses offered at NORTHEAST, which typically draws more than 6,000
industry professionals every March, are so relevant and worthwhile, no collision repairer can afford to miss it if they want to have a successful future in this industry. This year’s agenda is designed to help repair professionals continue to elevate their knowledge and skills. Some of the industry’s most sought-after speakers will be presenting at NORTHEAST 2023, including Mike Anderson of Collision Advice, Aaron Schulenburg of SCRS, David Luehr of Elite Body Shop Solutions, Tim Morgan of Spanesi Americas, Danny Gredinberg of the Database Enhancement Gateway, Chuck Olsen of AirPro Diagnostics and l CONTINUED ON PAGE 20
REGIONAL NEWS
Maine Voters Likely To Decide on ‘Right To Repair’ in November By Caitlin Andrews The Maine Monitor
Collision Repair Industry Our near-term future view sees a coalescing of several trends that portend industry growth with both risks and opportunities. From the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 and continuing throughout 2022, demand for collision repair services exceeded technician capacity for most of the
By the time Mainers get their spring tires put on, the waiting room of their local automotive shop might be decorated with political signage. You might not think who is allowed to repair a vehicle could be a political discussion, but it will be one of the four likely ideological skirmishes waged on the airwaves and roadside signs as Maine gears
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Voters in Kennebunk, ME, fill out their ballots for the November 2022 elections. Credit: Caitlin Andrews
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Columnist Mike Anderson: Alignments Are Too Critical for Collision Repair Shops to Not Do Them In-House
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Columnist Abby Andrews: UAF Accepting Applications for Scholarships from More Than 40 Organizations
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Columnist Ed Attanasio: Auto Painter Invents Linear Blocking Tools While Looking for a Better Paint Job
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Columnist John Yoswick: Auto Body Shops Struggle to Control Access to, Use of Estimate Data
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