Equipment Sector News — Machine Tools
QI Machine Tool Orders Up, But Investment Obstacles Remain
The AMT said year-to-date machine tool orders through March 2012 were $1.36 billion, up 12.9% compared with 2011. The AMT noted that a lack of access to credit, encroaching regulations and taxes and overall political uncertainty remain as future investment obstacles.
Read more...Date Posted May 15, 2012
Machine Tool Orders ‘Off to Best Start Since 1998′
February machine tool orders were up 35% compared to the same month in 2011. Association of Manufacturing Technology president Douglas K. Woods noted that “manufacturing technology orders are off to their best start since 1998.”
Read more...Date Posted April 12, 2012
2011 Machine Tool Orders Highest in Over Decade
The AMT and AMTDA reported 2011 machine tool orders were $5.5 billion, up 66.4% compared with 2010. AMT president, Douglas K. Woods, noted that machine tool orders finished its strongest year in over a decade.
Read more...Date Posted February 17, 2012
Beacon Completes Equipment Financing with Numerical Precision
Beacon Funding said it completed an equipment financing deal with Numerical Precision to fund a capital lease for a $263,000 AgieCharmilles Wire EDM machine used to manufacture products for NASA.
Read more...Date Posted January 11, 2012
YTD Machine Tool Orders Up 73.9% From 2010
The AMTDA and AMT reported 2011 November and YTD machine tool orders were $430 million and $4,957 million, respectively up 26.6% and 73.9% compared to the same periods in 2010. The report noted “backlogs are very healthy and growing longer.”
Read more...Date Posted January 10, 2012
September Machine Tool Orders 2nd Highest in Last 15 Years
According to a recent report from the AMTDA and AMT, September 2011 machine tool orders totaled $606.6 million, up almost 52% compared to the same quarter in 2010. September’s numbers were the second highest monthly total in the last 15 years.
Read more...Date Posted November 15, 2011
Machine Tool Orders Double YTD From 2010
The AMT and AMTDA reported August technology orders were down from July, but up 88.5% compared to the same month in 2010. The year-to-date total of $3.4 billion is up 101.0% compared with 2010.
Read more...Date Posted October 12, 2011
Machine Tool July Orders Up 92.7%; More Than Double Y/Y
According to the AMTDA and AMT, machine tool orders in July were up 92.7% compared to the same month in 2010. Year-to-date orders of almost $3.0 billion were up approximately 103% compared to the same year ago period.
Read more...Date Posted September 13, 2011
Machine Tool Orders More Than Double YTD
According to the AMT and AMTDA, the year-to-date value of machine tool orders through June 2011 totaled $2.45 billion, up almost 104% compared to the same period in 2010.
Read more...Date Posted August 11, 2011
Machine Tool Orders Up 108% YTD Through May
According to the AMTDA and AMT, machine tool orders for May were up 121.3% compared to the same month in 2010. The year-to-date total of almost $2.0 billion, is up 108% compared with 2010.
Read more...Date Posted July 15, 2011
Machine Tool YTD Consumption More Than Doubles
According to the AMTDA and AMT, March machine tool consumption was up 99% compared to the same month in 2010. The year-to-date total of $1.2 billion is up 118.6% compared to the same 2010 period.
Read more...Date Posted May 10, 2011
February YTD Machine Tool Consumption Up 138.1%
February year-to-date machine tool consumption totaled $699.16 million, up from $293.65 million or 138.1% from the same period in 2010, according to AMTDA, the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association and AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology.
Read more...Date Posted April 11, 2011
January Machine Tool Consumption 188% Higher Than Last Year
A recently released trade association report showed January 2011 machine tool consumption of $371.4 million, down sequentially from December, but up 188.3% when compared to the same month in 2010.
Read more...Date Posted March 11, 2011
Machine Tool Consumption Hits Historic High Since IMTS
December U.S. manufacturing technology consumption totaled $446.76 million, according to The Association For Manufacturing Technology (AMT) and the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association (AMTDA). This total, as reported by companies participating in the U.S. Manufacturing Technology Consumption (USMTC) program, was up 40.9% from November and up 104.8% when compared with the total of $218.16 million [...]
Read more...Date Posted February 16, 2011
