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MACHINES ON THE MOVE; Manufacturers seeing shift in production capacity as some companies able to profit from increased work seize opportunities.

Publication: Crain's Cleveland Business
Publication Date: 13-JUL-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: MACHINES ON THE MOVE; Manufacturers seeing shift in production capacity as some companies able to profit from increased work seize opportunities.(NEWS)

Article Excerpt
Byline: DAN SHINGLER

Manufacturing is on the move. Or at least its production capacity is.

The economic slump that has hammered auto suppliers and other manufacturers has meant that some shops have shut their doors, others have reduced their capacity, and still others have had equipment pulled from their floors by customers who own the gear used to make parts for them. It all adds up to an exodus of good equipment and machinery from companies that can't put it to profitable use, to those that can.

"There are going to be half as many of us, but we'll each be twice as big when it's all done, said Steve Peplin, owner of Talan Products, a small metal stamping company in Cleveland, as he talks about the potential impact on manufacturers of the current weak economy.

Mr. Peplin is not smug about the matter; he knows the pain some of...

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