Fabricated Metals Site Selection Trends
This article addresses site selection dynamics pertaining to the fabricated metals sector. Fabricated metals is among the industries emerging earliest from the great recession. Not all companies survived. Those that did have increased margins by cutting costs through downsizing and improving manufacturing efficiency. Lingering uncertainties continue to obscure the long term outlook for individual sub-sectors and specialties. As such, the industry will be characterized by conservative expansion/new facility investment decisions over the near term. Nonetheless, the industry will gradually add new capacity over the next 18-24 months. Beyond that timeframe physical expansion should be more robust. Importantly, growth will occur throughout the U.S. more....