Report Card Time - report on machine tool companies available - Brief Article

The 35th annual report on the performance of major machine tool companies, The Machine Tool Scorecard, is now available. It provides data by rank, company, country, machine tool sales, total sales, net profit, number of employees and sales per employee. Rankings are based on worldwide sales of machine tools; numerical controls sold by machine tool builders are also included. It covers 238 companies from 11 countries, which appear to have machine tool sales totalling $31.3 billion. Increases in sales were reported by 86 companies. The bulletin is distributed by AMT-The Association For Manufacturing Technology