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2010 Capital Spending Survey & Forecast Results Presentation --NEW!
View results of the 2010 Capital Spending Survey and Forecast. The "Cap Spending" survey is the largest, most comprehensive survey detailing future spending in discrete parts manufacturing markets.

2009 Capital Spending Survey & Forecast Results Presentation
View results of the 2009 Capital Spending Survey and Forecast. The "Cap Spending" survey is the largest, most comprehensive survey detailing future spending in discrete parts manufacturing markets.

2010 Tooling & Workholding Spending Survey—NEW!
11th 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.

2009 Tooling & Workholding Spending Survey
10th 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.

2009 Screw Machining/Equipment Capital Spending Survey--NEW!6th Annual Screw Machining/Equipment Capital Spending is the largest, most comprehensive survey detailing future spending in the screw machining industry. Conducted by Gardner Research.

2008 Screw Machining/Equipment Capital Spending Survey

5th Annual Screw Machining/Equipment Capital Spending is the largest, most comprehensive survey detailing future spending in the screw machining industry. Conducted by Gardner Research.

2009 Plastics Processing Capital Spending Survey- NEW!
8th Annual Plastics Processing Capital Spending Survey is the largest, most comprehensive survey detailing future spending (2009) on plastics processing equipment. It generates an astounding wealth of information about who's buying what in the plastics processing industry. The survey is conducted by Gardner Research.

2008 Plastics Processing Capital Spending Survey
7th Annual Plastics Processing Capital Spending Survey is the largest, most comprehensive survey detailing future spending (2008) on plastics processing equipment. It generates an astounding wealth of information about who's buying what in the plastics processing industry. The survey is conducted by Gardner Research.

2009 Finishing Capital Spending Survey—NEW!

6th Annual Finishing Capital Spending is the largest, most comprehensive survey detailing future spending in the organic finishing industry. Conducted by Gardner Research.

2008 Finishing Capital Spending Survey

5th Annual Finishing Capital Spending is the largest, most comprehensive survey detailing future spending in the organic finishing industry. Conducted by Gardner Research.

2009 MoldMaking Capital Spending Survey—NEW!

4th Annual Moldmaking Capital Spending is the largest, most comprehensive survey detailing future spending in the moldmaking industry. Conducted by Gardner Research.

The 2009 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. View Last Years Results

Does your company need more marketing?(Part I) Or just better marketing?(II) -

This article from Mitch Gooze, President, Custom Manufacturing Group, Inc., looks at the spectrum of marketing functions, and it describes some successful approaches to determining when to add more marketing to your company.

What Shops Want In Machining Centers
This piece from Peter Zelinski looks at a user study titled "Machining Center User Perception Study." Survey targets were individuals with engineering or engineering management titles who have authority for specifying machining centers. The report’s findings are based on 333 responses to the detailed survey, which translates to a statistical margin of error of ±4.5 percent, the company says.

Modern Machine Shop "30 Second Survey" Results - July 2009

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

SPECIAL REPORT: World Machine Tool Review
The global machine tool landscape continues to change itself. Modern Machine Shop editors visited two more countries during the last half of 1998, Japan and Italy.

SPECIAL REPORT: World Machine Tool Review
The list of countries feeding the global demand for machine tools is growing and changing. The next machine you purchase may well have been built in a country you don't immediately associate with manufacturing technology. Modern Machine Shop editors visited two such countries in 1998, the Czech Republic and Spain. In both nations, machine tool builders are positioning themselves to win a larger share of not just the world market, but the U.S. market in particular.

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.