MCLEAN, VA-Machine tool sales to U.S. manufacturers totaled $407.21 million in September, according to the American Machine Tool Distributors' Association and The Association For Manufacturing Technology.

MCLEAN, VA-Machine tool sales to U.S. manufacturers totaled $407.21 million in September, according to the American Machine Tool Distributors' Association (AMTDA) and The Association For Manufacturing Technology (AMT). This figure is up 43.1 percent from the same time period last year. Thus far, sales of machine tools in 2006 stand at $2.8 billion, up 26.2 percent compared with 2005.