Tornos best sales intake for five years

For the first three months of 2006, the Tornos group took new orders totalling CHF 65.1 million, an order intake growth of 11.3 per cent compared with the first three months of 2005. Consolidated gross sales for the first quarter of 2006 were relatively low owing to the downturn experienced in the second half of 2005. Sales were CHF 52.4 million, down 13.5 per cent compared with the same period of the previous year and 2.5 per cent lower than the last quarter of 2005. CHF1 = £0.441272 (07/06/06 - http://www.xe.com)