I take many trade magazines in electronics and manufacturing. This year
there has been a theme of the renovation and renewal of American
manufacturing.
Building "stuff" is coming back on shore. A prime example is the new
Tesla car plant being wooed by a number of states. There are a lot of
suppliers that migrate to areas having an automotive plant as well as
the brand plant.
There is also moves in electric batteries (for cars), and other areas.
The shale oil and fracturing technology, drove up the need to
manufacture oil rigs in the USA. Those are big projects and structures
that generate a lot of auxillary machinery orders for winches, steel
cable, motive power, pumps, hose, couplings, castings, machine shop work
on oil tools, etc.
Thales, a British aerospace vendor, is moving its radio manufacturing
production line to the USA after receiving a big contract from the Coast
Guard to replace every radio in their fleet; cutters, ice breakers, down
to patrol boats.
The recent friction in Eastern Europe is likely to put the spurs to
developing the private payloads to orbit missions for supplying the
International Space Station. The manned transfer craft may not be
available from the Russian space agency in a year.
The delay of the Canada to central US pipeline, has engendered growth in
the two national Railroads of Canada running joint trains into the heart
of the US and down to the Gulf Coast. Just as there have been some
trains with Engines from Mexico coming up into TX.
Even if the remaining unbuilt section of the pipeline gets out of
Washington red tape, the expansion of oil carriage by train is said to
be cost competitive by the time you figure that the train tank cars can
do something the pipeline cannot. In both carriage schemes, the oil
must be thinned or diluted. At the Gulf Coast, the diluent is recycled
and by train can be sent backwards to Canada for reuse. And by heating
the tank cars, (already an existing technology used for syrups), you do
not have to dilute it as much, as is done for pipeline transport.
There is a good business in making enclosures, especially custom ones.
Check enclosure prices even in surplus outlets.
Stuart Rohre
K5KVH
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