Metals & Minerals Industry Benefitting From, and Driving, North American Economic Growth

ATLANTA, GEORGIA--May 4, 2010--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The North American Metals & Minerals Industry is off to a promising start in 2010, and early signs point to an even strong stronger 2011 and 2012, Joseph Govreau, Industrial Info's vice president of research for Metals & Minerals, told about 200 attendees at IIR's Twenty-Ten Industrial Market Outlook briefing in Atlanta last week. Industrial Info is tracking 1,168 active Metals & Minerals projects in North America. Western Canada, Ontario, the Great Lakes, and the Rocky Mountains will be the North American regions with the largest year-over-year increases in project spending for this industry, according to Industrial Info's data.