Patrick McGibbon
Patrick McGibbon was promoted to Chief Knowledge Officer for AMT in early 2019. As CKO, Pat is the association’s chief economist, ombudsman and a member of AMT’s Strategic Alignment team. He heads survey expansion projects, inter-association collaboration in business intelligence, R&D on intelligence projects, and is staff liaison for AMT’s Economics & Statistics Committee and AMT/USCTI’s Joint Statistics Committee.
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December 2021 cutting tool orders up almost 10%
Cutting tool consumption totaled $164.3 million in December 2021, which is an almost 10% increased to the same period in 2020.
Cutting tool orders up more than 25% from July 2020
Analysis of cutting tool consumption is a leading indicator of both upturns and downturns in U.S. manufacturing activity.