Florida’s Booming Economy

Our speaker this month brings the “boom” to the above title of our luncheon program. Clark Mica is President of the Institute of Makers of Explosives (IME). This trade group, which represents U.S. manufacturers and distributors of commercial explosives, is out with a new economic impact study that highlights the critical role of these explosives in building the U.S. and Florida economies. In Florida, commercial explosives are used in many activities, including mining aggregate in South Florida quarries, drilling and installing oil and gas pipelines, and in the explosive bolts that release the space rockets fired from the Kennedy Space Center.