Sheet metal & Air Conditioning Contractors’ National Association

News Industrial Insights – Outlook: U.S. plant spending forecast to grow in 2018

Fueled by a soaring U.S. economy and lower corporate tax rates, industrial sector experts anticipate a 5.9 percent increase in overall U.S. industry plant spending to $328.5 billion in 2018. The spending forecast is up by $18.35 billion from last year according to the industry market research provider, Industrial Info Resources.

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Resource 2018 FMI Outlook Featuring FMI’s Fourth Quarter 2017 Construction Outlook

The 2018 FMI Outlook Featuring FMI’s Fourth Quarter 2017 Construction Outlook includes FMI executives sharing their opinions on how 2017 will shape up and the forecast for 2018.

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Resource SMACNA Supports Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act of 2017

On November 20, 2017, SMACNA submitted a letter to the United States Senate endorsing passage of Senate Bill S.512, the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act of 2017.

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Resource National Combined Heat and Power Overview Fact Sheet

​The Alliance for Industrial Efficiency offers this new National Combined Heat and Power Overview fact sheet providing a comprehensive overview of the CHP opportunity in the United States.

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Resource Industrial Project Information Available to Contractors through SMART

A significant resource for SMACNA contractors looking for project opportunities in the industrial sector is available through SMART and local Union offices. Industrial Info Resources© is a web-based search engine that gathers, updates and disseminates information on industrial customers and projects.

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News SMACNA’s Industrial Committee: Here to serve you

The industrial marketplace is a conglomeration of many types of work: food, pharmaceutical, steel, petroleum/chemical, automotive, pulp and paper, power generation, coal, agricultural, steel, hospitals, and laboratories, to name only a few.

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News Introducing SMACNA’s Round Industrial Duct Construction App

Round industrial duct construction calculations just got a whole lot easier for SMACNA members.

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News It’s okay to brag a little. Tell us about your industrial projects!

Are you working on a large-scale industrial project or performed service work on a certain plant? We want to know about it—and it could be featured in SMACNA’s Industrial Insights newsletter.

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Form Industrial Insights Project Information Form

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News Basic design factors to consider for welded joints

Many factors must be considered for welded joint design in the sheet metal industry. The basic factors of size, type of weld, edge preparation, metal thickness, reinforcement members, and distortion are the most prevalent.

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Report Comparison of Local Industrial Addenda

This report is based upon (21) Local Industrial Addenda on file at SMACNA's Labor Relations Department.

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