Metal-forming technologies, and the machine tool industry, continue to be the industrial backbone for any industrial economy.

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The dominant players in the machine tool industry have varied with the rise and fall of industrial manufacturing by country.

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The transition that has taken place in the global machine tool industry over the past seven years is representative of what is taking place in one industry after another.

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Apart from what has occurred in the industry itself, the complete transformation of the global machine tool industry is a useful barometer for the entire manufacturing sector.

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Foreign entities with knowledge of the multi-axis simultaneous control machine tool industry view the U.S. export control policies and requirements as an additional burden to consider when dealing with U.S. multi-axis machine tool manufactures.

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That was before the U.S. machine tool industry suffered a meltdown in 2009, when domestic consumption tumbled by 60.4 percent, according to the Association of Manufacturing Technology.

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