John Gardner
speaker
119 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 23 Jun
John Gardner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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One of the challenges, the biggest challenge, everybody I talk to in the industry, the biggest challenge that 90% of the industry faces, and I talk to them all day long, that's what I do all day, is deal with the 90% of the industry and machine shops that make metalworking parts.
The biggest challenge we're facing is the price of materials.
And there's a solution to this.
And I believe the Trump administration is on this.
But what we're seeing on our end is the compression of time.
I look at a presidential term as four quarters of a football game, and we're in the middle of the second quarter.
And to give you an example, a buddy of mine, his input to his material price for one part was 8% 10 months ago.
Now it's 24%.
And he said it's making his part unaffordable to make.
He needs three or four stainless to make this.
Every input to a manufactured good in America has gone up.
Copper has gone through the roof.
I buy a lot of copper derivatives, aluminum especially.
The naysayers want to blame the tariffs, but I say this is demand.
There's so much demand.
There's so much manufacturing activity going on.
The ISM and PMI manufacturing index is going through the roof.
This is a good thing to see happening, but what it creates is we don't have enough capacity with the refining and smelting of steel, copper, and aluminum.
to bring the cost down for our manufacturers.
So it's a good thing, kind of a cart before the horse.
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