John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.
Management
Thanks, Nicole. So, again, as we've characterized the crane markets, they're clearly challenging, but they are stabilizing. Last week, as I said in my comments, it was great for me because I had the opportunity to spend time with about 500 customers all week in Zweibrücken from literally around the globe. And the customer's attitude has improved. On the Crane side, they're not yet seeing the utilization rates that perhaps you're seeing in the Aerial space. And I would say that's pretty much globally. As we look at the crane markets and we go around the world, Europe what's impacted this year has been the change in the subsidies in European win side, especially in Germany, which has impacted crawler cranes. We think as we bring our new line of Demag cranes to the marketplace, that that's going help us to win business in a challenging market. North America is stabilizing but still relatively soft, but clearly better positioned than it was a year ago. Middle East, rough-terrain cranes continue to be challenging as this OPEC oil prices stick. We'll perhaps see some improvement there. We are seeing some good quoting on some larger transactions in the Middle East on infrastructure projects. So, that's encouraging that you're beginning to see that type of infrastructure activity in the Middle East. Australia, I've spoken about that in the past, it used to be a very strong market for us. It went to virtually nothing. So, we'll beginning to see improvement there in our Pick & Carry line and actually imports of some of our cranes. So, we're encouraged there. Latin America remains challenging. It's driven by Brazil. On the margin, we see a couple things here or there but remains a challenging market. Towers business, towers cranes business, we continue to see good growth there. And that's really driven in North America and the UK up right now, relatively small business within cranes, but we see a good growth. And our Utilities business is a solid contributor, consistent growth, they execute well. And so, that market is very consistent. That's what we like about that in that market. So, overall, I think we're seeing improvements. It's challenging, but stabilizing. And I think the year kind of played out the way we had anticipated. We thought the first half of the year would be down, it was. The second half of the year is stabilizing and increasing. So that's how I'd characterize the crane market. It's improving, but it's still challenging. There's not any euphoria when you talk to cranes customers, but they're clearly – attitudes are demonstrably stronger than they were a year ago.