Economy + Supply
By Staff -- Purchasing, 2/14/2008
| UP | DOWN | SAME | INDEX | |
| Transportation | 35% | 14% | 51% | 60.7 |
| Steel | 39% | 18% | 43% | 60.2 |
| Semiconductors | 31% | 14% | 55% | 58.1 |
| Passive electronics | 33% | 17% | 50% | 57.8 |
| Fabricated metals | 34% | 20% | 46% | 56.7 |
| Energy | 27% | 15% | 58% | 56.1 |
| Aluminum | 31% | 20% | 49% | 55.2 |
| Computers | 28% | 18% | 54% | 54.9 |
| Molded plastics | 27% | 18% | 55% | 54.0 |
| Tooling | 25% | 18% | 57% | 53.2 |
| Industrial machinery | 22% | 15% | 63% | 53.1 |
| Copper & brass | 26% | 21% | 53% | 52.4 |
| Corrugated | 22% | 20% | 58% | 51.3 |
| Plastic resins | 22% | 20% | 58% | 51.2 |
| Organic chemicals | 17% | 15% | 68% | 50.6 |
| Inorganic chemicals | 15% | 14% | 71% | 50.6 |
| Paper | 18% | 21% | 61% | 48.6 |
| Source: www.purchasingdata.com Index registers movement; 50 = no change, above 50 = growth, below 50 = contraction. | ||||
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