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Article: Manufacturing technology consumption up 6 percent.(wholesaler news)
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- January 1, 2008
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September U.S. manufacturing technology consumption totaled $438.95 million, according to the Association for Manufacturing Technology and the American Machine Tool Distributors' Association.
This total was up 21.7 percent from August, and up 2.9 percent from the total of $426.39 million reported for September 2006. With a year-to-date total of $3 billion, 2007 was up 6.7 percent compared with 2006.
"Evidence that manufacturing is alive and well in the U.S. can be seen in September's extraordinary surge in manufacturing technology orders," said John B. Byrd III, AMT president. "It is especially impressive that orders surpassed those placed in September ...