Japan's machine tool orders in August 2012 decreased by 2.6% year-on-year

According to China Machine Tool Network (Machine35.com), the Japan Machine Tool Industry Association announced on September 11 that Japan's machine tool orders (preliminary value) in August 2012 were 96.3 billion yen (about 1.23758 billion US dollars), It decreased by 2.6% year-on-year, and it has been lower than the actual performance of the same month last year for 4 consecutive months. Machine tool orders in August fell below the 100 billion yen ($1,285.13 million) benchmark used to judge whether demand for orders is strong for the first time in seven months. It is reported that the order value in Japan in August was 29.4 billion yen (about 377.83 million US dollars), a decrease of 21.6% year-on-year. The value of overseas orders was 66.8 billion yen (about 858.47 million US dollars), an increase of 9.0% year-on-year, and the first time in eight months that it turned to growth. On the other hand, among the 8 large companies that accounted for 40% of the overall order value, except for Makino Milling Tool Works and Toshiba Machinery, the order value of the remaining 6 companies decreased year-on-year. As for Makino Milling Co., Ltd., due to the strong demand for machine tools for processing electronic parts in China, since June 2008, the total orders from Japan and abroad exceeded 7 billion yen (about 89.96 million yen) for the first time in 4 years and 2 months. Dollar). The difference in orders for automobile-related machine tools is related to the increase or decrease of the order amount. As Toshiba Machinery's auto-related orders for China and Thailand increased, and JTEKT secured auto-related orders for the United States and Asia, both overseas orders increased by more than 20% in August. Although Osaka Machinery (OKK)'s orders for Europe and North America remained the same as in August 2011, due to sluggish demand for orders to Asia, OKK's total orders in Japan and abroad decreased. Orders of 8 large machine tool companies in August 2012 Company name Total domestic exports Okuma 42.7(▲15.3) 49.9(▲14.7) 92.7(▲15.0) Mori Seiki Co., Ltd. 28.6(▲20.1) 55.8(▲27.3) 84.4( ▲25.0) Makino Milling Co., Ltd. 20.7 (▲5.0) 51.1 (11.9) 71.8 (6.4) JTEKT Group 12.5 (▲49.7) 27.8 (27.2) 40.3 (▲13.7) ) 27.7(19.0) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries 10.2(▲34.0) 11.0(▲3.8) 21.2(▲21.2) Tsugami 6.0(▲17.7) 13.4(8.8) 19.5(▲6.0) Osaka Machinery 6.3.(▲28.1) 7.1(▲ 16.2) 13.4 (▲22.3) Note: 1. Unit: 100 million yen. 2. The year-on-year increase/decrease rate in brackets is %, and ▲ is negative. Note: The real-time exchange rate used in this paper is 1 USD u003d 77.8130 yen.