December U.S. manufacturing technology consumption totaled $194.01 million, according to AMT – the Association for Manufacturing Technology and AMTDA, the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association. This total, as reported by companies participating in the USMTC program, was down 2.2% from November, and down 53.8% from the total of $419.80 million reported for December 2007. With a year-to-date total of $4,211.79 million, 2008 is down 2.4% 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.
The 2008 Stimulus Package and the International Manufacturing Technology Show in September were expected to pull orders out of 2009 and place …
