1
 Factory owners are buying new machinery at a good rate this fall, 
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machine tool makers say, 
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but sluggish sales of new cars and trucks raise questions about fourth-quarter demand from the important automotive industry.
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 September orders for machine tools rebounded from the summer doldrums, 
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but remained 7.7% below year-earlier levels, 
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according to figures from NMTBA 
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-- the Association for Manufacturing Technology.
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 Domestic machine tool plants received $303 million of orders last month, up 33% from August's $227.1 million, but still below the $328.2 million of September 1988, 
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NMTBA said.
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 Machine tools are complex machines 
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ranging from lathes to metal-forming presses 
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that are used 
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to shape most metal parts.
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 Overall demand still is very respectable, 
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says Christopher C. Cole, group vice president at Cincinnati Milacron Inc., the nation's largest machine tool producer.
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 The outlook is positive for the intermediate to long term.
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 September orders for all U.S. producers, in fact, were slightly above the monthly average for 1988, a good year for the industry.
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 Aerospace orders are very good, 
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Mr. Cole says.
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 And export business is still good.
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 While some automotive programs have been delayed, 
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they haven't been canceled.
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 September was one of the biggest order months in our history, 
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says James R. Roberts, vice president, world-wide sales and marketing, for Giddings & Lewis Inc., Fond du Lac, Wis. 
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At a recent meeting of manufacturing executives, everybody 
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I talked with 
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was very positive, 
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he says.
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 Most say they
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 plan to spend more on factory equipment in 1990 than in 1989.
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 But sales of North American-made 1990-model cars are running at an annual rate of only six million, down from 7.1 million a year earlier.
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 And truck sales also are off more than 20%.
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 Auto makers, 
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who began deferring some equipment purchases last spring, 
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can be expected to remain cautious about spending 
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if their sales don't pick up, 
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machine tool builders say.
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 Machine tool executives are hopeful, however, 
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that recent developments in Eastern Europe will expand markets for U.S.-made machine tools in that region. 
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There is demand for state-of-the-art machine tools in the Soviet Union and in other Eastern European countries 
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as those nations strive to improve the efficiency of their ailing factories as well as the quality of their goods.
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 However, there's a continuing dispute between machine tool makers and the Defense Department over whether sophisticated U.S. machine tools would increase the Soviet Union's military might.
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 The Commerce Department says 
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go, 
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and the Defense Department says 
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stop, 
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complains one machine tool producer.
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 If that controversy continues, 
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U.S. machine tool makers say, 
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West German and other foreign producers are likely to grab most of the sales in Eastern Europe.
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 September orders for machining centers, lathes, milling machines, grinders, boring mills and other machines 
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that shape metal
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 by cutting 
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totaled $192.9 million, down 28% from $266.5 million a year earlier, but a 23% increase from August's $156.3 million, 
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NMTBA said.
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 Orders last month for metal-forming presses and other machinery 
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to form metal with pressure 
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surged to $110.1 million, a 78% rise from $61.7 million a year earlier and a 55% gain from $70.9 million in August.
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 Today's presses are large and costly machines, 
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and a few orders can produce a high total for one month 
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that doesn't necessarily indicate a trend.
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 Machine tool shipments last month were $281.2 million, a 24% rise from a year earlier and a 25% increase from August.
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 Shipments have run well ahead of 1988 all year, 
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as machine tool builders produce against relatively good backlogs.
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 U.S. producers had a $2.15 billion backlog of unfilled orders at the end of September.
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 That was up 2.8% from a year earlier, 
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even though orders for the first nine months of 1989 were down 19% from the comparable 1988 period.
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concession

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 $2,057,750,000. 
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$675,400,000. 
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$1,048,500,000. 
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$588,350,000. 
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