Shipments of cutting tools totaled $259.3 million in March 2026, increasing 15.2% from February 2026 and 24.6% from March 2025. Year-to-date shipments totaled $705.1 million, up 15.9% from the same period in 2025.
From Google's largest foreign investment to date to new aerospace facilities and back-to-back months of PMI expansion, India's industrial momentum this spring is hard to ignore. For more industry intel and other tidbits, read on.
This week’s update highlights leadership changes at Allied Machine, Verisurf, ECI, and Rego-Fix, a new partnership between YCM and Technical Equipment Sales, national recognition for NCDMM, and major federal project funding awarded through America Makes.
U.S. industrial production increased in April 2026 to the highest level since 2019, according to the latest report from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Capacity utilization increased by 0.4 percentage points from March 2026.
Milton Guerry, president of Schunk USA, shares how AMT membership gives the company a stronger voice through industry connections, data, and insights – helping Schunk navigate uncertainty, inform strategy, and support long-term growth.
AI is helping manufacturers reclaim time by reducing administrative work – enabling sales representatives and service teams to focus on customer relationships, support, and shop-floor expertise.
Jannik Wiedenhaupt from Supplyco AI addressed a tension felt across the manufacturing industry: manual, repetitive tasks are draining resources and preventing experts from focusing on high-value work.
Record investment, a national push toward Industry 4.0, and a growing roster of global firms upgrading their Thai facilities – Southeast Asia's manufacturing story this month is all about Thailand. For more industry intel and other tidbits, read on.
Respondents to the 2025 Reshoring Survey of over 500 manufacturers indicated that if trade policies were stable and provided less uncertainty, even if input costs were higher, manufacturers could support more investment in U.S. manufacturing.
New orders of metalworking machinery totaled $681.3 million in March 2026, increasing 40.3% from February 2026 and 31.5% from March 2025. Manufacturing technology orders totaled $1.61 billion for the first quarter of 2026, up 27.8% year over year.