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Regional Manufacturing Outlook
Friday | 13 January, 2017 | 10:38 am

Southeast

Written by By Modern Metals' staff

Commercial building activity likely to see a pickup but energy-related projects remain sidelined

MM 0117 regional lead2January 2017 - The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, based on its latest economic survey, found that most respondents in the Southeastern commercial real estate market saw improving demand, while the majority of commercial contractors indicated that the pace of nonresidential construction activity had picked up from a year earlier. Most commercial real estate brokers anticipate the pace of nonresidential construction activity to increase slightly during early 2017.

Manufacturing new orders and production levels in the region moved higher than the previous two-month period. Supplier delivery times lengthened and purchasing managers indicated that finished inventory levels decreased. They also cited a notable increase in commodity prices. Respondents were more optimistic about business activity going forward, as almost half indicate they expect an increase in production levels over the next six months, compared with only one-third in the previous survey.

At ports in the Atlanta Fed district, break bulk cargo, container and automobile shipments strengthened, while trucking contacts saw declines in tonnage. Liquefied natural gas projects were under way while other petrochemical projects that had been scheduled for 2016-2017 were delayed into 2018 and beyond. Energy industry respondents indicate that oil and gas producers will proceed with prudent capital investment plans. Renewable projects continued to expand in the region, particularly wind energy. Oversupply of crude oil and gasoline continued, which perpetuated high demand for inventory storage.

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AIR FILTRATION

DEBURRING/FINISHING

NESTING SOFTWARE

SOFTWARE

Camfil APC - Equipment

ARKU

ATI Industrial Automation

4GL Solutions

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Supermax Tools
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Timesavers

PLASMA TECHNOLOGY

ALUMINUM

Richardson Metals, Inc.

 

IDENTIFICATION/TRACKING

InfoSight

PLATE

BEVELING

Churchill Steel Plate
Steelmax Tools LLC

IRONWORKERS

Peddinghaus

STAINLESS STEEL

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COIL PROCESSING

PLATE & ANGLE ROLLS

Sandmeyer Steel Company

ANDRITZ Metals USA Inc.

LASER TECHNOLOGY

Trilogy Machinery Inc.

STEEL

Braner USA Inc. AMADA AMERICA Inc.

PRESS BRAKE TOOLING

Alliance Steel
Burghardt + Schmidt Group MC Machinery Systems Inc. Rolleri USA North American Steel Alliance
Butech Bliss TRUMPF Inc.

PRESS BRAKES

TITANIUM

Red Bud Industries

MATERIAL HANDLING

MC Machinery Systems Inc.

Sandmeyer Steel Company

The Bradbury Group EMH Crane

PUNCHING

TUBE & PIPE

Fehr Warehouse Solutions Inc. Hougen Manufacturing BLM Group

COPPER & BRASS

Steel Storage Systems

SAWING

HGG Profiling Equipment Inc.
Concast Metal Products Co.
UFP IndustrialUFP Industrial Advanced Machine & Engineering  National Tube Supply

Copper and Brass Servicenter Association

Farmers Copper

Prudential Stainless & Alloys

MEASUREMENT & QUALITY CONTROL

Behringer Saws Inc.

WATERJET TECHNOLOGY

Advanced Gauging Technologies Cosen Saws Barton International

METAL FABRICATING MACHINERY

DoALL Sawing Products Jet Edge Waterjet Systems
Cincinnati Inc. HE&M Saw Omax Corp.
  LVD Strippit Savage Saws

ZINC

  Scotchman Industries

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Jarden Zinc Products
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