There is a significant focus on using RFID in pharmaceutical manufacturing because of the FDA's interest in using RFID tags to help combat diverting and counterfeiting.

It ranges from housing interest to retail development interest to warehouse and manufacturing interest.

Manufacturing has already been in an a recession ... but we were looking for a fourth-quarter turnaround. With the interest rate cuts, tax cuts, and (the fact that) many manufacturers had gone through their inventory set us up for a reasonable recovery.

The orders situation in the German manufacturing sector is excellent. It strengthens the European Central Bank's resolve to tighten interest rates and gradually normalize them.

In the late '90s, manufacturing was looked at as a cost to be controlled. It wasn't looked at strategically.

The Zanesville plant is one of six manufacturing facilities for All American Homes nationwide. Our Zanesville facility opened in July 1998, employs 175 people, and builds 250 to 300 homes per year. It serves 75 independent builders who cover a radius of about 250 miles from Zanesville.