Pit & Quarry, December 2010
RoundtaBle ConfeRenCe FACING THE ISSUES After a two year hiatus the Pit Quarry Roundtable Conference returned with a strong showing in Nashville Tenn Owing to a large turnout we divided our roundtable event into two sessions in separate rooms Following is a partial transcript for one of those sessions For a more complete transcript please visit www pitandquarry com and click on Web Exclusives The transcript for the next session runs next month in Pit Quarrys January issue RICHESSON Its a roundtable tradition to start with talk about economic conditions In some parts of the country producers are finally beginning to recover from the recent recession and now there is talk we may be headed for another dip How are things in your market and for your company NICELY Obviously weve all felt the recession in the aggregate industry But internationally is where a lot of people are still having some success In the U S the midwestern states seem to be holding their own But its the East and West coasts that are extremely depressed as far as we are seeing The mining industry its coming back and theres more activity than there has been the last year BRAU Were seeing a solid recovery in many segments of our business The OEM equipment manufacturers are recovering very fast We see that aggregate and construction are still soft and will probably continue to be soft in the next couple of years We dont forecast a double dip although we see that its Brau probably going to be flat for the next couple of years as it increases in the next two to four years SUZIO We are actually seeing a little bit of a dip Were very fortunate where we had a backlog into the first half of this year Things were down but they were still flowing Then come June it was like somebody turned the water faucet off and weve not seen the work the latter half of this year that we had last year Whats a bigger concern for me is at this time last year I knew what I was going to be doing the following year The work that I have to bid on work secured for next year is not at the level that we were at this year Its segmented PARt 1 PARtICIPANtS Brian Barlow BMG and BMG Green Wilhelm Brau Bridgestone Americas David Chereb David Chereb Group Evan Clarke Kleemann GmbH Florian Festge W S Tyler John Garrison Terex MPS Jeff Heinemann Sandvik AB Tom Hingst North American Limestone Corp Mike Johnson KPI JCI Darin Matson Rogers Group Deborah Nicely FLSmidth Blaine Pressley Volvo Construction Equipment Brian Richesson Pit Quarry Magazine Jody Richey Orica Ric Suzio Suzio York Hill Josh Swank Philippi Hagenbuch Megan Tanel Association of Equipment Manufacturers Hal Williford Memphis Stone Gravel Co Suzio 26 PIT QUARRY December 2010 www pitandquarry com
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