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Ed Brindley -> RE: Richmond Show! (5/21/2008 4:36:05 PM)
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I have been attending the Richmond Show for over 30 years and came away from this year's show with a positive feeling. The show highlights three major parts of the forest products industry, logging, sawmilling, and pallets.
As many readers are aware, the logging industry has been depresssed for way over a year now. With today's activity level, this depressed attitude continues.
THe sawmill industry is way down as well, both hardwoods and softwoods. Thus, it is not surprising to find machinery and service suppliers who are concerned about business levels from the sawmill industry. Thus, some exhibitors may have thought that things were a little slow.
But the pallet industry continues to show wide variations in activity levels. Pallet industry exhibitors at the RIchmond Show generally reported good activity levels. They sold a fair amount of machinery and came away with good lists of potential customers.
There was as much or more new machinery than I expected. We will be talking more about the Richmond Show in the Pallet Profile and July issue of the Pallet Enterprise.
Yes, the number of exhibitors was down, probably some 15-20%. And yes the number of attendees was down as well. But the Richmond Show maintained its image of a good show and showed some of the most positive activity that any forest industry show has shown in several years.
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Was glad to see so many friends in Richmond last week.
Your friend and Pallet Enterprise publisher
Ed Brindley
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