GARDNER PUBLICATIONS, parent company of MODERN MACHINE SHOP, sponsors numerous suveys, reports and information sources throughout the year for the metalworking and manufacturing industries. Below are links to reports crucial to buyers and sellers of machine tools and metalworking technologies. Information on how to obtain clarification or more detailed reports is available within each report, where applicable.

2011 Capital Spending Survey

The results are complete for 2011 Capital Spending Survey and Forecast. Gardner’s Research’s 43rd 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.

2011 Tooling & Workholding Spending Survey—NEW!
12th Annual Tooling & Workholding Spending Survey is the largest, most comprehensive survey detailing future spending in the tooling and workholding industries. From the good folks at Gardner Research.

Modern Machine Shop 30 Second Survey - July 2010
The MMS 30 second survey is monthly snapshot of industrial buyers economic perceptions and general buying intentions. View 30 Second Survey Historical Results.

The 2011 World Machine-Tool Output and Consumption Survey—NEW!
No single government or trade-association source can give you these head-to-head comparisons of machine tool consumption statistics from around the world. And its been formatted here for ease of use on the Web.

Modern Machine Shop "30 Second Survey" Results - September 2011

Modern Machine Shop "30 Second Survey" Results - September 2011 thru September 2009

The Remaking Of A Machine Tool Industry
Tom Beard takes the pulse of the American machine tool industry in this 1998 special report for the German magazine, Industrie Anzeiger.

Metalworking Insiders' Report - is a biweekly newsletter that covers the news and developments related to the business side of the capital-equipment industry. Its focus is on the production, equipment, building and distribution industry that, in turn, serves many manufacturing industries.

Of course, there are other excellent sources of metalworking- and machine tool-related data. Below are links to some we recommend.

AMT-The Association For Manufacturing Technology. Select the link to "Publications" off of their main page and you'll find it. The Economic Handbook includes information on the world machine tool industry, the national and world economies, employment, machine tool orders and shipments, machine tools in use, and the financial condition of the industry. It's compiled from dozens of domestic and foreign sources, and is one of the most comprehensive collections of data on the machine tool and related industries available anywhere in the world. Both product-specific and country-specific data are included, and information about capital equipment purchases is broken out for five major consuming industries.

Also, AMT publishes numerous publications for the machine tool and metalworking industries.