Manufacturing Machinery Orders Increase in February 2025

New orders of metalworking machinery, measured by the U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Report published by AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology, totaled $389.9 million in February 2025, a 9.9% increase from January and a 12.5% increase from February 2024. Through the first two months of the year, orders totaled $744.74 million, an 8.8% increase over the first two months of 2024.

Through the first two months of 2025, it seems as if the optimistic forecast for machine tool orders had begun to materialize. In addition to the uptick in the value of machinery ordered, unit sales have rebounded in 2025. For much of 2024, growth in the number of units sold lagged the increase in the total value of orders. That trend has reversed in 2025, with the number of units ordered 9.6% above the first two months of 2024.