United States: US cutting tool consumption totalled US$173.64 million in April according to the US Cutting Tool Institute (USCTI) and the Association For Manufacturing Technology (AMT). With a year-to-date total of US$689.76 million, 2016 was down 10.3 percent when compared with 2015..

The US cutting tool consumption totalled US$189 million in June, according to the US Cutting Tool Institute (USCTI) and the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT). Published in their June report, this figure represented an increase of nine percent from May 2015, but a one percent decrease from June 2014.

The US cutting tool consumption for February totalled US$179.3 million, according to the US Cutting Tool Institute (USCIT) and the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT). This total, as reported by companies participating in the, was down 2.3 percent from January’s total, but a 1.6 percent improvement as compared to February last year.