April manufacturing tech consumption down.April U.S. manufacturing technology consumption totaled $396.47 million, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. The Association For Manufacturing Technology--AMT--and the American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of Machine Tool Distributors' Association--AMTDA. The total, as reported by companies participating in the U.S. Manufacturing Technology Con-sumption program, was down 27.6 percent from March, but up 29.2 percent from the total of $306.86 million reported for April 2007. With a year-to-date Year-to-date (YTD) The period beginning at the start of the calendar year up to the current date. total of $1.58 billion, 2008 is up 19.9 percent compared with 2007. Manufacturing technology consumption was also reported on a regional basis for five geographic geographic /geo·graph·ic/ (je?o-graf´ik) in pathology, of or referring to a pattern that is well demarcated, resembling outlines on a map. geographic pertaining to geography. areas of the U.S. Northeast “Northeastern” redirects here. For the Boston college, see Northeastern University, Boston. Northeast or north east is the ordinal direction halfway between north and east. It is the opposite of southwest. See boxing the compass. April manufacturing technology consumption in the Northeast Region stood at $46.47 million, down 35.2 percent when compared with March's $71.70 million, and 10.1 percent less than the April total a year ago. The $221.71 million year-to-date total is 4.3 percent higher than the 2007 total at the same time. Southern At $49.37 million, April manufacturing technology consumption in the Southern Region was 59.8 percent less than the March total of $122.72 million but 26.8 percent higher than the April 2007 tally. Compared with 2007 at the same time, the year-to-date total of $271.61 million is up 69.6 percent. Midwestern Mid·west or Middle West A region of the north-central United States around the Great Lakes and the upper Mississippi Valley. It is generally considered to include Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and Midwestern Region manufacturing technology consumption rose to $154.14 million in April, down 10.4 percent when compared with March's $172.02 million, but 81.5 percent higher than the total for April a year ago. The 2008 year-to-date total of $534.69 million is 46.0 percent above the comparable figure a year ago. Central With an April total of $79.88 million, Central Region manufacturing technology consumption was down 31.7 percent from the March total of $116.92 million and 6.1 percent less than in April a year ago. The $351.00 million year-to-date total is down 5.8 percent when compared with 2007 at the same time. Western Western Region manufacturing technology consumption in April rose to $66.61 million, 3.4 percent higher than March's $64.45 million, and up 44.1 percent when compared with April 2007. At $208.26 million, year-to-date 2008 is off 1.9 percent when compared with 2007 at the same time. |
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