Kirby Cline, Western U.S. territory manager at Masaba, shares his expectations for next year and how the industry will operate coming out of the 2024 elections.
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Kevin Yanik: Just your feeling on the mood out there right now. I mean, are you optimistic about where things are going to go next year? Getting a little more cautious, perhaps?
Kirby Cline: Actually, no. I think 2025 is going to be a killer year. I think it’s for our industry, in general, it’s going to be a killer year. There’s a lot of projects out there. Again, you know, we talked to the election year. Our industry waits for the election to be over. Doesn’t matter who it is, who gets in there, they just become okay with it, right? They might not like it, they might love it, but they still end up spending their money on new equipment because they have to to keep up, or they’re running a piece of equipment that’s running itself into the ground and giving them more downtime than they would would be happy with.
KY: Yeah, we’ve shown, you know, I guess whoever’s in the White House, or however Congress is structured that, you know, we can succeed no matter the structure in Washington. We can overcome the things that we thought were problems at one time.
KC: Yeah, I would agree. Like I said, they just have to accept it. They need that time to do it.
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