Finishing Capital Spending
Question 1, 2 & 3:
   Operating Capacity
Question 4:
   Plant Spending
Question 5:
   Type of Equipment
Question 6:
   Motives for Purchase
Question 7:
   Capital Spending Budget
Question 8:
   Types of Application Methods
Question 9:
   Types of Systems
Question 10:
   Expenditures by Equipment Type
   Additional Info
   Methodology



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Q1. At what level of capacity is your plant currently operating?


  2009 2008 2007 2006 2005
Average capacity level reported (August preceding survey year)
77.7 79.1 79.8 79.1 77.4


Q2. Will your operating level in 2009 be:

 
 2009 2008 2007 2006
Higher
 40.2 43.7 43.7 47.6
Lower
 10.7 9.7 10.8 7.3
Same as last year
47.8 41.8 44.2 43.2
No answer
1.3 0.0 1.3 1.9
Total
 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

 

Q3. Why?


  2008 2007 2006
Incoming orders on increase 38.0 35.0 37.3
Incoming orders on decrease 8.2 8.2 6.9
Incoming orders flat 26.7 25.7 26.4
Forecast optimistic 27.8 27.0 29.4
Forecast pessimistic 5.4 6.0 5.5
Other 9.3 9.7 8.4


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