Economy + Supply
By Staff -- Purchasing, 9/13/2007
| UP | DOWN | SAME | INDEX | |
| Molded plastics | 32% | 11% | 57% | 60.9 |
| Tooling | 34% | 15% | 51% | 59.9 |
| Aluminum | 35% | 17% | 48% | 59.4 |
| Plastic resins | 29% | 13% | 58% | 58.1 |
| Energy | 26% | 11% | 63% | 57.3 |
| Transportation | 27% | 14% | 59% | 56.3 |
| Fabricated metals | 27% | 15% | 58% | 56.2 |
| Steel | 32% | 20% | 48% | 56.0 |
| Industrial machinery | 22% | 10% | 68% | 56.0 |
| Copper & brass | 28% | 17% | 55% | 55.5 |
| Paper | 18% | 11% | 71% | 54.0 |
| Corrugated | 23% | 16% | 61% | 53.6 |
| Computers | 15% | 8% | 77% | 53.3 |
| Semiconductors | 21% | 14% | 65% | 53.1 |
| Passive electronics | 19% | 14% | 67% | 52.9 |
| Organic chemicals | 22% | 17% | 61% | 52.3 |
| Inorganic chemicals | 21% | 18% | 61% | 51.6 |
| Source: www.purchasingdata.com Index registers movement; 50 = no change, above 50 = growth, below 50 = contraction. | ||||
| August | July | June | |
| SHORTEST LEADTIMES | |||
| Small-signal transistors | 3.3 | 5.2 | 5.6 |
| Carbon film resistors, 25W | 4.0 | 8.8 | 4.0 |
| NiMH batteries | 4.4 | 6.2 | 5.9 |
| Wirewound resistors | 4.4 | 9.6 | 5.1 |
| Slide switches | 4.5 | 7.9 | 5.1 |
| LONGEST LEADTIMES | |||
| Logic: Bipolar | 9.8 | 8.7 | 6.5 |
| SRAM: 4 Mb | 9.9 | 9.1 | 5.9 |
| Analog/digital converters | 10.0 | 11.9 | 9.1 |
| MPU: 32-bit | 10.3 | 10.0 | 8.1 |
| Digital/analog converters | 11.9 | 11.7 | 8.7 |
| Source: www.purchasingdata.com | |||
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