[SC Swamp Fox]

The machine tool business is one of the industries that is last to benefit from recovery

...and don't we know it!

This AMT report simply states what those of us in the business already know, we don't have many orders. If it doesn't turn around soon we will be sunk.

Competitors in Gemany, China, India, Japan and Brazil will happily take our remaining customers. I wonder who the governmant (Army and Navy) will buy their machines from?

[oceanview]

orders from whom? who is expanding manufacturing in the US?

we know the answers of course. as I said, I don't even know why the government tracks these statistics anymore. Manufacturing is going to be a niche industry in the US, only highly specialized areas will survive.