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Slow Growth Predicted for U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders

October through December order levels are running significantly higher than the fourth quarter of 2017.

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January 16, 2019

Manufacturing technology orders were $458 million in November 2018, down 2% from October levels and up 7% from November 2017, according to the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT). October through December order levels are running significantly higher than the fourth quarter of 2017, but not at the frenetic pace set by third-quarter 2018 order values. The $5 billion year-to-date sum is reportedly up 22% from the same 11 months in 2017.

“Orders in the third quarter were amazing, and no one expected that pace to continue into the last three months of 2018,” said Doug Woods, president, AMT. “The single-digit October and November year-over-year growth rates are a harbinger of what we’ll see in early 2019, but our members are confident growth will continue as the aerospace industry ramps up to reduce order backlogs; medical equipment demand grows with the graying of North America; and the auto sector drives capex investment deeper into the supply chain.”

The strength in November orders was attributed to two sectors: contract machining and industrial machinery. October and November levels in the aerospace and automotive industries provided a strong base for order levels in both months, but jumps in demand for manufacturing technology in the contract machining and industrial machinery industries accounted for a significant portion of the year-over-year growth in total orders.

Geographically, the Northeast, West and North Central East showed strengthening markets during November. The North Central East growth in orders during November was led by stronger auto and aerospace orders, bucking the national trend in these two sectors.

Improvement in the West region was driven by several large orders in the consumer electronics industry. The Northeast saw the largest month-to-month gain for a region due to a strong pick- up in orders from the contract machining sector and growth in the aerospace sector counter to the national trend in aerospace.

For more information, visit www.amtonline.org.

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