与许多专家于上一年末预计美国机床会滑坡的预测相反,美国机床业已经表明它非常“有活力且正在冲击”。事实确实是这样,美国机床业在1997年12月份与上年同期相比增长达32.6％,非常引人注目。 据美国制造技术协会和美国机床销售商协会发布的数据得知,1997年12月份向美国各大公司订购的国内、外制造的机床与上年同期相比,上升15.1％,估计达7.8744亿美元。该增长与11月份记录的6.3％下降额相比是非常引人注目的。美国各公司的订货统计值在整个1997年中达86亿美元,比1996年上升24％。 12月份的巨额增长意味着美国制造业再次树立连续五年订货增长之记录,上次有此记录的是在1966年。纽 Contrary to many experts’ prediction of the landslide of the U.S. machine tool at the end of last year, the machine tool industry in the United States has shown that it is “very dynamic and impacting.” This is indeed the case. The machine tool industry in the United States saw an increase of 32.6% in December 1997 from the same period of last year. This is remarkable. According to data released by the American Association of Manufacturing Technology and the American Machine Tool Sales Association, domestic and foreign machine tools ordered from major US companies in December 1997 increased 15.1% over the same period of last year to an estimated 787.44 million U.S. dollars . This increase is very much in line with the 6.3% drop recorded in November. The statistics of the orders of the U.S. companies reached 8.6 billion U.S. dollars in 1997, an increase of 24% over 1996. The huge growth in December meant that the U.S. manufacturing industry once again set a record for five consecutive years of order growth, the last record of which was in 1966. New Zealand