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Article: Manufacturing technology consumption up 17.2 percent year-to-date.(Industry News)
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- Modern Applications News
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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May U.S. manufacturing technology consumption totaled $341.21 million, according to the American Machine Tool Distributors' Association-AMTDA--and the Association For Manufacturing Technology-AMT. This total, as reported by companies participating in the United States Manufacturing Technology Consumption-USMTC--program, was down 16.4 percent from April, but up 2.2 percent from the total of $333.8 million reported for May 2007. With a year-to-date total of $1.94 billion, 2008 is up 17.2 percent compared with 2007.
These numbers and all data in this report are based on the totals of actual data reported by companies participating in the USMTC program.
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