U.S. manufacturing technology consumption totaled $219.60 million, according to AMT -- The Association For Manufacturing Technology, and AMTDA, the American Machine Tool  Distributors' Association.

This total was up 22.9% from November but down 5.7% from the total of $232.93 million reported for December 2008.  With a year-to-date total of $1,771.91 million, 2009 is down 60.4% compared with 2008.

Source: Industry Week

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