While the GDP growth numbers that just came out show stagnant growth for the US economy, there were some good numbers in machinery sales from last year. According to an article in Injection World, "Shipments of plastics machinery in the US remained strong in the final quarter of 2013, according to the latest statistics from the Committee on Equipment Statistics (CES) at the Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI)." Forth quarter shipment of primary plastics processing machinery were up 8% over the previous year.
For more information, check out Injection World April 2014