Project Summary: |
Cooperator: Association for Manufacturing Technology (Mclean, VA)
Industry: Machine Tools
Markets: China
MDCP award: $225,100
AMT match: $454,800
Exports: $23,110,977
Post-Period Exports (2007-2009): 96,000,000
Period:2001-2006
Project Scope: With 373 member companies, AMT serves the US machine tool and related industry. AMT will establish the "U.S. Machine Tool Technology & Service Center" in Shanghai, China, allowing US firms to base field engineers, warehouse repair parts, and demonstrate products to potential customers.
Key ITA team members: Commercial Service: ; Manufacturing and Services: Machinery & Materials. |
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Continued Success in Shanghai
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AMT-The Association for Manufacturing Technology, serves their 300 members from the U.S. machine tool industry out of Mclean, VA.
Project
After several months of research, negotiation, and preparation coordinated with ITA, AMT established its technical and service center near Shanghai. The center allows U.S. firms to base field engineers, warehouse repair parts, and demonstrate products to potential customers. Since the MDCP project ended in 2006, AMT has used the center to help 24 more U.S. firms and has posted an additional $96 million in exports. These results are in addition to those noted at the bottom of the page.
Hurco sells $10 million, “graduates”
From the opening of the center in late 2004 until 2009, Hurco, an Indiana-based company, grew its China business using the center as its base. Over these five years, the company made $10 million in sales to China. In 2009, Hurco “graduated” from the center and set up its own base in Ningbo, China. |
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A potential Hurco customer talks with technical staff at AMT’s technical and service center near Shanghai. |
