[ninenot]

You'd have to look damn hard to find heavy-industrial capacity remaining in the Midwest. Most metal-fabricating and machining has moved out--with more scheduled for departure in the next 5 years.

Even finding 50-ton overhead cranes (or 20-ton) is becoming a challenge.

[snowsislander]

Even finding 50-ton overhead cranes (or 20-ton) is becoming a challenge.

I didn't realize we were losing that business also. That hurts; that was one that I thought we still were doing okay in.

Do you know which companies are displacing ours? I know that Japan has a good domestic industry, so it wouldn't surprise me if they were also exporting some. And I think the Europeans have some production also, so it wouldn't surprise me if they weren't gaining some traction here. [I haven't seen anything on the large side from the Koreans, but it wouldn't surprise me to find out that they have both a domestic and export business.]

[Nowhere Man]

You'd have to look damn hard to find heavy-industrial capacity remaining in the Midwest. Most metal-fabricating and machining has moved out--with more scheduled for departure in the next 5 years.

Even finding 50-ton overhead cranes (or 20-ton) is becoming a challenge.

Ummmm, I hate to hear that, well, that idea went up in smoke although I'm hoping there is still some capacity in the South or West, maybe. I know of a huge crane still in the Pittsburgh area, I guess it could lift 20 tons, I dunno, that is a little out of my league, but yeah, there is going to be a time when we are going to need them and we will not have them.