MACH 2010 set to catch the economic tide
MACH 2008, held from 21 to 25 April that year, was a stunning success, with numbers up 21 per cent on MACH 2006, at some 27,000. Business generated by the 2008 show is estimated to have been around £150 million.
That will have included other manufacturing technology besides machine tools, but MACH 2008 is still likely to have been the catalyst for at least 20 per cent of that year's machine tool consumption, which, according to US publisher Gardner Publications, was around £500 million, adjusted using Bank of England average exchange rates.
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