Just wondering if in general the machine shops have been slow throughout the USA for these past few months? For my business I sell parts to large companies and I have several small machine shops make the parts I sell. All of the machine shops have been complaining that work is really slow right now and has been for the last few months. Even some rare metal supplies that I know have been saying that they have been slower than normal with machine shops not buying as much metal (due to lack of work). Just wondering if this is slowdown is limited to my area (the northeast) or if it's slow all over the country? and does anybody have any idea why manufacturing has been slow? even my customers who are large pharma and cosmetic companies have been slower than normal.
thanks