Want A Sure Bet?

Well here it is; it is a sure bet that a lot of companies are saving their machine tool and high end manufacturing equipment purchases until year end, for tax management purposes.  This graph (from EDA) does not tell me this.  My many years in the industry do.  It’s a Q4 tradition, which I participated in on a few occasions myself.

Indeed, my contact (servicing the Semi industry) is planning to add a couple pieces.  Whether or not this bump will coincide with market strength is another topic, but one might want to watch the best of the machine tool and high end manufacturing equipment sectors.  Much hyped though it is, that would include the the 3D Printing guys too.