Demand for Machine Tools Continues to Increase in the North

According to relevant data, in March 2013, the U.S. metal processing machine orders amounted to 510 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 30.4% from the previous month and an increase of 3.2% year-on-year; the order volume was 2333 units, an increase of 202 units from the previous period, and a year-on-year decrease of 157 units.

Douglas Woods, chairman of the American Manufacturing Technology Association, said that orders increased year-on-year and year-on-year, which also reflected that with the improvement of automobile sales and housing market, the increase in consumer spending has gradually driven the development of the manufacturing industry.

In March, orders for metal forming machines in the US were US$470 million, an increase of 33.1% from the previous quarter and a year-on-year increase of 3.7%. The number of orders was 2,191 units, an increase of 195 units from the previous quarter and a year-on-year decrease of 168; the number of forming machines was US$ 39.83 million, a month-on-month increase of 5.9%, and year-on-year decrease. 1.9%, orders 142 units, an increase of 7 stations, an increase of 11 units.

In the first quarter of 2013, the U.S. metal processing machine orders amounted to 1.28 billion U.S. dollars, a year-on-year decrease of 5.0%, and the number of orders was 6,535; among them, the amount of metal cutting machine orders was 1.16 billion U.S. dollars, a year-on-year decrease of 6.7%, and the number of orders was 6,127; The amount of orders for machine tools was 120 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 15.2% over the same period of last year. The order volume was 408 units.

From the perspective of the regional allocation of metal processing orders, the five federal states in the eastern, central and northern United States are the highest, followed by the nine federal states in the north-central part of the West, and the metal processing machine tools in the ten western federal states rank third in the order amount, and in the northeast The 13 states ranked fourth, the five federal states in the south-central region ranked fifth, and the seven federal states in the southeast had the lowest machine tool orders.

From the orders for the first quarter, the demand for machine tools continues to increase in the north-central region of the East, the north-western region and the west, and orders in the other three regions show a year-on-year decline.