Industrial Information Resources of Houston is forecasting 735 new plant startups to come online in 2003, a slight improvement from 705 counted in 2002.
Chief financial officers of U.S. companies are much more optimistic about the U.S. economy than they were last quarter, according to the December "CFO Outlook Survey," conducted by Financial Executives International (FEI) and Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.
NS Group announced in November that workers in the company's seamless tubular facility in Pennsylvania, Koppel Steel Corp., had ratified a new labor agreement.