On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:27:47 -0500, Ed Huntress
wrote:

On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:05:24 -0500, Tom Gardner
wrote:

On 12/31/2015 9:08 AM, Ed Huntress wrote:
New process niches keep popping up all the time, so the situation for
general job shops may be fairly stable. As for very small
manufacturers, I doubt if the situation will be as good. They'll
either get bought up or go under.

I'm sure that the bigger industry analysts have a better handle on it.


I see, from my perspective I've watched my industry shrink in number of
players without new companies coming on line. There are really only 5
big boy players each commanding a different market segment. I had three
offers on my business when we put it on the market. Two were domestic
and one from Canada that wanted my flat wire technology and market REAL
bad. The Canadian company needed to grow and open a new market.
Canadians are weird people I found out and have a strange way of doing
things. I had a lot of frustration getting them to do things in a
timely manner and they wouldn't listen to me about how to do things and
how to relate to US customers. I thought it was just me until I spoke
with others in the industry and found out that that's just how Canadians
roll.

g Maybe you should ask Clare. Why did Tom run into weird Canadians?
d8-)

The only thing that bothered me about them (I haven't been there in
years, but used to go every year) was the Quebecois who could speak
English, but wouldn't.

Of course, I've talked to French people who say the Quebecois don't
speak French, either...
Depends where the Canadians were from. Oilberta is almost North
Dakota.

In many ways so is Saskatchewan.

Some parts of BC are just like California North.