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The MFG Meeting 2025: 9 Strategic Takeaways for AMT Members
The MFG Meeting 2025 gathered manufacturing leaders, innovators, and policy experts to discuss the forces shaping the future of our industry. Here are nine key takeaways we hope will provide you with the latest business intelligence and insights. Read full article.
AMT Elects New Board Leadership
AMT is excited to announce its newly elected 2025-2026 board of directors. The new leadership team includes Michael Cicco as board chairman, Gregory Volovic as first vice chairman, and Willie Eichele as secretary/treasurer. Read more about the February board of directors meeting.
News You Can Use
From Startups to Industry Leaders: Startups can reveal where an industry is headed and what areas hold the most promise. The 2024 Formnext Start-up Challenge winners provide a clear view of developing trends: the continued expansion of AM in health care and the growing tendency for companies to leverage AM for highly targeted applications. Read full article.
International News From the Field: Mexico: Mexico's ambitious Plan Mexico initiative outlines goals to industrialize the country for economic growth through increased FDI, workforce expansion, more content in the global value chain, and more. For more industry intel and other tidbits, read on.
Race of Thrones: Is the McLaren F1 still the greatest sports car of all time? Not if upstarts like the Czinger 21C, GMA T.50, or McLaren’s own W1 have anything to say about it. Gearhead and tech aficionado Stephen LaMarca straps in for a quick cruise around the block of this heated debate. Read full article.
USA Reshoring Survey 2025: Participate in the USA Reshoring Survey 2025 to share your insights on reshoring trends. Your input will inform policy recommendations to the new presidential administration, benefiting U.S. manufacturing. The survey takes about 10 minutes. Take the survey.
Tech Corner: Concert is a modular construction robot designed to work in harmony with human crews, enhancing safety and efficiency. Like an orchestra assembling the right instruments for a performance, Concert adapts its tools for drilling, sanding, heavy lifting, and more. Developed by the Italian Institute of Technology and tested in Poland, it aims to hit the market in 2-3 years. Read full article.
Member Benefits Spotlight: AMT’s Global Services provides the resources and regional expertise members need to succeed in international markets. Whether you need field support, proxy hires, warehousing, or to exhibit internationally, AMT’s Global Tech Centers and International Pavilions help bring your business to the world.
By the Numbers
20 Years of Workholding Trends
Without workholding, machining parts would be like trying to bake a cake without a baking dish – at best, you'd have a big mess to clean, and at worst, you'd need a new oven. While both machine and workholding orders have declined for about two years, economists are now forecasting double-digit growth in machine orders. Orders for workholding may follow with an increase of similar strength in 2025. Read the latest USMTO article to track how machine orders fare in 2025.
If your company sells workholding, contact Chris Chidzik, principal economist of AMT, to see if you qualify to receive the monthly Advanced Workholding Technology data.
Upcoming Events
Apr. 21-26, 2025: CIMT 2025 in Beijing, China.
May 7, 2025: AMT Meetup in Charlotte, North Carolina.
May 13-15, 2025: Manufacturing Technology Series EAST in West Springfield, Massachusetts.
Jun. 4, 2025: AMT Meetup in Chicago, Illinois.
AMT Member Spotlight
The latest from the AMT community: C.R. Onsrud expands its annual Factory Demo Day, America Makes and IACMI announce new leadership, and Siemens teams up with the University of Michigan to drive metal additive manufacturing education. Read full article.
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