Article: February manufacturing technology consumption up 4.4 percent from 2007.(Industry News)

February U.S. manufacturing technology consumption totaled $308.5 million, according to the Association For Manufacturing Technology and the American Machine Tool Distributors' Association. This total, as reported by companies participating in the United States Manufacturing Technology Consumption--USMTC--program, was down four percent from January, but up 4.4 percent from the total of $295.39 million reported for February 2007. With a year-to-date total of $624.28 million, 2008 is up 1.2 percent compared with 2007.

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These numbers and all data in this report are based on the totals of actual data reported by companies participating in ...

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