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The 2005-2006 Economic Handbook of The Manufacturing Technology Industry is now available from AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology. This annual guide, compiled from numerous domestic and foreign sources, provides comprehensive domestic and international data on the manufacturing technology industry. The Handbook is now available to download from AMT’s website in both PDF and Excel formats.
The Economic Handbook encompasses product and country specific manufacturing technology data, as well as information on capital equipment purchases, by several major consuming industries. The domestic data covers such areas as employment, machine tool shipments, machine tools in use, and the financial condition of the industry. The Handbook also provides a full range of international data for 31 foreign countries, typically including production, trade by machine type, and trade by partner country.
As always, this extensive collection of data on the economy and the manufacturing technology industry will be used by industry executives, market researchers, legislators, financial analysts, administrators, journalists, and students. Domestic analysts follow this industry for insight into the viability of the U.S. manufacturing base. International analysts use the Handbook to track the development of the manufacturing technology industry globally. Detailed breakdowns by types of manufacturing technologies allow analysts to gain insight into the development of certain technologies and production capabilities in specific countries. This industry is also closely watched by defense analysts, due to the use of sophisticated manufacturing technologies in the production of weapons systems.
PDF and Excel versions of the Economic Handbook are available to AMT members and to non-members, by visiting www.AMTonline.org. AMT members may access all Economic Handbook files free of charge; non-members can download the Economic Handbook PDF for $295.00 or purchase a CD containing PDF files for $345.00 plus shipping and handling.
AMT (founded in 1902 as the National Machine Tool Builders' Association) supports and promotes the U.S. manufacturing technology industry. The association provides U.S. builders of manufacturing systems with the latest information on technical developments, training methods, trade and marketing opportunities, and economic issues. It also gathers and disseminates information about world markets, promotes its members' products in global markets, and acts as a representative on manufacturing technology matters to governments and trade organizations throughout the world.
The association also owns and sponsors the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS), held every even-numbered year in Chicago. IMTS 2006, to be held at McCormick Place, September 6-13, 2006, is among the largest industrial expositions in the world. This giant trade show, the largest of its kind in the Americas, brings buyers from nations around the world together with more than 1,200 exhibiting companies in an extravaganza of the finest manufacturing equipment and related technology in the world.
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