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Welcome to GardnerWeb, the Online home of Gardner Business Media.  We are a publisher focused on publishing magazines and creating web sites for industrial markets.

Within this site you will find detailed information about media brands designed to connect buyers and sellers. . 

The industries we serve include:

• Metalworking - Modern Machine Shop
• Precision Machining  - Production Machining
• Plastics Processing - Plastics Technology
• Metal Finishing - Products Finishing
• Moldmaking - MoldMaking Technology
• Automotive production - Automotive Design & Production
• Composite Materials - Composites Technology and High Performance Composites

Gardner Research Releases Results of
"Media Usage in Manufacturing Facilities" Study
Comprehensive survey profiles today's manufacturing professional; reveals the types of information they use and examines the media channels they are using to find that information.

Based on a survey sample of nearly 2,000 executives and production managers mainly serving durable goods industries, Gardner Research's Media Usage Survey profiles today's manufacturing professionals and delivers compelling insights into how those professionals are using multiple media channels to gather information.
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Gardner Business Media Named Official IMTS 2012 Promotional Products Vendor

Gardner Business Media, Inc. will once again serve as the official vendor of promotional products for the biennial International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS). In this role, GBM will offer a complete suite of integrated, multi-media tools that enable IMTS exhibitors opportunities to promote their brand and their display before, during and after North America's premier metalworking and machining exhibition.

Learn more about IMTS 2012 Promotional Products and Special Discount Programs:
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Plastics Technology Releases NPE2012 Discovery Package Details

Plastics Technology will once again serve as primary provider of Official NPE2012 promotional products. These promotional products are detailed in the recently released NPE2012Discovery Package brochure. Highlights include NPE2012 Official Show Directory, NPE.org Interactive Floor Plan and Agenda Planner, NPE2012 Official Pocket Maps and NPE Show Issues of Plastics Technology and MoldMaking
Technology.

Learn more about NPE2012 Promotional Products and Special Discount Programs:
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Special Industry Event:
Gardner Business Media, Inc. Releases "Start Making Sense" Media Presentation

Gardner Business Media, Inc. recently hosted leading manufacturing marketing professionals for the initial "Start Making Sense" Media presentation. Presented by Gardner Business Media, Inc. Group Publisher, Rick Kline and AJ Sweatt, President, AJ Sweatt Logic and Communications, the presentation focused on effective use of emerging media's impact on industrial marketing. Featured topics included the results of the "Media Usage in Manufacturing Facilities" Study; strategies for integrated marketing; insights on online activity; developments in social media adoption.

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Gardner Business Media, Inc. Named Greater Cincinnati
"Family Business of the Decade"

Gardner Business Media, Inc. took home top honors in the Family Business of the Decade event, staged by the University of Cincinnati's Goering Center for Family and Private Business at Cincinnati’s Music Hall. Read More

Gardner Research Services Announces Results of the 2012 Capital Spending Survey and Forecast.

Gardner’s Research’s 44th Annual Capital Spending Survey is the largest, most comprehensive survey detailing future spending in the discrete parts manufacturing industries. It generates a wealth of information. The information is available in three different formats.

Click here for Results of 2012 Capital Spending Survey & Forecast Results Presentation

Metalworking Forecast Tools
Machine tool sales (and other products necessary to cut metal - like cutting tools) are driven by changes in industrial production. So, we've created a series of industry specific charts that will help you understand where industrial production is headed. Through the use of rate of change curves, we can compare two data series over time to show that one set of data is a leading indicator of a second set of data. These charts will help understand what drives changes in industrial production in the industries that by the most machine tools.

Learn more about our Metalworking Forecast Tools here .

Metalworking Business Index
Looking to build upon our annual capital spending survey, the Metalworking Business Index (MBI), is a monthly e-mail survey that will report trends in the metalworking industry. The MBI will capture month-to-month changes in the levels of various economic data that can serve as crucial leading indicators for your business.

Learn more about the Metalworking Business Index here.