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  In 2023 the heavy industry sector continues to meet the challenges of a perfect supply and demand storm consisting of a robust 21st-century construction boom while complying with the restrictive production inhibiting “green” policies often founded on obsolete 1970s environmental false alarms.  Building Demand For Essential Resources to Support a Population of 10 Billion […]

  Compared with a strong 2022, the year ahead looks to be a bit more challenging for the metals, mining, and construction industries. Despite the (potential) demand of a large number of road and infrastructure projects in the US, continuing high inflation and the threat of global recession continue to hamper optimism. Other global factors […]

  “Ian will go down as one of the most damaging and impactful storms in U.S. history, along with 2017’s Hurricane Harvey, which caused $190 billion in total damage and economic loss,” –  AccuWeather Founder and CEO Dr. Joel N. Myers Other notorious storms Myers noted include Irma, which was blamed for $80 billion in […]

  “As the health crisis has reshaped the way people think about work and travel, companies are feeling their way to new, post-pandemic norms.”- Wall Street Journal-  When the remote workforce and “digital nomad” employees are the topic of discussion among human resource professionals, the employment sector that usually comes foremost to mind is Big […]

  The US Gypsum Supply Chain: Demand is Up But Production is Dwindling Industry Watch at Resource Erectors- June 2022 “According to Isabelle Kavanagh, sustainability engineer at BuroHappold in New York, current estimates indicate a very low recycling rate for gypsum and data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suggests that just two percent of […]

Resource Erectors Heavy Industry Watch 2022 US steelmaker stocks took a hit last week after an outstanding year for the North American steel industry throughout 2021. The sell-off came after one Canadian CEO fell on his own sword by predicting that the North American Steel market in 2022 is analogous to “a falling knife”. Share […]

It’s called the NIMBY effect and no global industry is more universally challenged by “Not In My Back Yard” opposition than the mining and quarry sectors. Except perhaps the nuclear power industry, and in either sector, rarely is the opposition justified. 

  The more things change, the more they stay the same!” That seems to be the legacy of 2021 for “industries across the board” as we like to say when describing the scope of our heavy industry recruiting services here at Resource Erectors.  As we put the workforce and supply chain turbulence generated by the […]

  If you accept the evaluation of the folks over at Weedlife, hemp is the “dream green” construction material. But can the US make the industrial hemp transition? In 2018 President Trump signed the 2018 Farm Bill that legalized hemp as a legitimate agricultural and industrial product. That bill revived the long-lost US hemp industry […]

Resource Erectors Industry Watch Q4 2021: What a difference a year makes. Last year in October 2020, we reported that President Trump had rightly declared a national emergency in the US mining industry to secure reliable domestic mineral and battery metal resources, all to meet explosive demand in the brave new green world. Earlier in […]

  Industry Watch 2021 at Resource Erectors From paving companies, to painters, to civil construction contractors, to electronics manufacturers, and even to the average American consumer, the ongoing resin shortage (and 251 other materials) in the US is causing repercussions across the board.  As we move into the final quarter of 2021 the US, the […]

  “July was the sixth straight month of double-digit price increases for construction inputs,” said Ken Simonson, the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) chief economist, in calling for President Joe Biden to immediately end tariffs and quotas on steel, aluminum, lumber and other essential construction items.”- DCN-JOC News Service-August 13, 2021 Hyper-volatility Driving Construction […]