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Business is great in the Northwest.(In the Mix)
The land of gourmet coffee, airplanes, and personal computers is treating concrete producers quite nicely. While the Seattle region is not experiencing the explosive growth of other Western cities like Phoenix and Las Vegas, the future looks bright for producers.
Things are especially looking up in Everett, 20 miles north of Seattle and the home of Boeing's sprawling manufacturing facility. "Everything is in an upward trend," said Dave Mullins, concrete manager for Rinker Materials, the largest producer in Snohomish County. "This county is very bullish on Boeing."
With good reason. After a lull for several years, Boeing pulled in almost 500 orders for new aircraft the first six months of 2006. This and more to come will keep Boeing's facilities here and in Renton, just south of Seattle, humming well into the next decade.
Rinker and other producers benefit not from Boeing as much as from the suppliers that serve it. For instance, Rinker will be pouring concrete for a new 100,000-square-foot tilt-up building for B.F. Goodrich soon.
This area north of Seattle also will benefit from the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C., 120 ...
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