Gary Vasilash

2 weeks ago | amtonline.org | Catherine Ross |Kevin Bowers |Gary Vasilash |Christopher Chidzik

DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASEMcLean, Va. (June 9, 2025) — New orders of metalworking machinery, measured by the U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Report published by AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology, totaled $444.9 million in April 2025. This marked a 12.7% decline from March 2025 and a nearly 40% increase from April 2024. Machinery orders in 2025 placed through April totaled $1.69 billion, a 17.8% increase over the first four months of 2024.

2 weeks ago | amtonline.org | Christopher Chidzik |Kevin Bowers |Gary Vasilash

READ FULL PRESS RELEASEMcLean, Va. (June 18, 2025) — Shipments of cutting tools, measured by the Cutting Tool Market Report compiled in a collaboration between AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology and the U.S. Cutting Tool Institute (USCTI), totaled $212.8 million in April 2025. Orders increased 2.7% from March 2025 but were down 2.8% from April 2024. Year-to-date shipments totaled $818.3 million, a drop of 5.1% from the same period in 2024.

3 weeks ago | amtonline.org | Gary Vasilash |Travis Egan |Stephen LaMarca |Christopher Chidzik

Even in times of deteriorating economic conditions, there is still demand for manufacturing technology. In the midst of the recession caused by the 2008 financial crisis, orders for metalworking machinery, measured by the U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Report published by AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology, totaled around $95 million in January 2009, the lowest level recorded. Although orders grew scarcer, businesses continued to invest in manufacturing technology.

3 weeks ago | amtonline.org | Stephen LaMarca |Kevin Bowers |Benjamin Moses |Gary Vasilash

Peter Eelman, the chief experience officer of AMT, is retiring after almost 30 years. Peter has, quite literally, spent the entirety of his 45-year career working on IMTS. On his first day at his first job, he was tasked with figuring out how to consolidate his company’s five divisions into one major booth for their display at IMTS 1980. Unbeknownst to him, that first step into the professional world would shape his career for nearly half a century.

3 weeks ago | wardsauto.com | Gary Vasilash

The designers and color and materials specialists working on the Dodge Daytona Charger had a particularly tricky assignment. On the one hand, they had to create an interior for not only the brand’s first-ever battery-electric vehicle, but Stellantis North America’s first BEV foray, too. At the same time, they had to develop an interior that would appeal to the Charger faithful.