Article: Trade trip sifts potential in oil sands

More Spokane and Coeur d'Alene-area businesses are looking closely at selling goods and services in the booming oil-sands development area in Alberta after they sent representatives on a trade mission recently to Edmonton and Calgary, the province's two biggest cities.

Four Spokane-area businesses, a Rathdrum, manufacturer, two educational institutions, and others sent delegates on the trip.

Randy Rugg, an international sales rep with United Coatings Manufacturing Co., of Spokane Valley, who flew over part of the oil sands with a handful of other delegates, says, "You don't even understand it until you're up in the air. It's quite a large scope of work that'sgoing on. In our industry, I ...

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