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The United States machine tool market

What a manufacturer entering the United States is actually looking at: how many plants buy equipment of this class, how often they order, where they are, and what they already run.

17,156US machine shops
21,579orders in a year
$5.74Bvalue of those orders
9,390plants we hold
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Wide shot, CNC machining centre mid-cut. Coolant spray, swarf, dark shop floor.
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How big the market actually is

There are 17,156 machine shop establishments in the United States and 14,533 metal fabricators. American buyers placed 21,579 machine tool orders in a single year, worth $5.74 billion.

Those are the two numbers that decide whether the United States is worth a dedicated channel. The first is how many doors exist. The second is how often they open.

US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023, NAICS 332710 and 332322. USMTO, published by AMT.

Five states hold
a third of it.

A manufacturer appointing one representative per region is appointing against a map nobody has drawn.

Where the buyers are

The subset we hold with contact detail: 9,390 American plants, 3,384 with a named decision maker.

California
1,374
Texas
657
Florida
545
Michigan
501
Pennsylvania
457
Ohio
441
New York
303
Illinois
281
Indiana
261
Virginia
246
Washington
242
Massachusetts
224
StatePlants indexedDecision maker named
California1,374489
Texas657210
Florida545186
Michigan501188
Pennsylvania457184
Ohio441149
New York303122
Illinois28196
Indiana26191
Virginia24696
Washington24290
Massachusetts22459

SBA Small Business Search, NAICS 332710, public-display records, counted by unique entity.

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Operator at a control panel, screen glow on the face. Shoulders, not a portrait.
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Finished steel parts in a tote, close, shallow depth of field.
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What they already run

378 of those plants publish the machine brands on their own floor. Not an estimate — shops that have already bought a machine of this class and said so in public.

Haas
124
Mazak
52
Okuma
39
Zeiss
37
Faro
33
Doosan
32
Fadal
32
Mori Seiki
29

A shop already running a competing machining centre is a better first call than one that might buy. It has the floor space, the operators, the maintenance programme and a replacement cycle.

Why the channel is the hard part

The equipment is not the obstacle. Representation is. Coverage is uneven by state, territories are handed out on a handshake and reviewed when something goes wrong, and no maker publishes where its own network is thin.

We hold that map. Which states sit open, and at which maker, is the first thing we put on the table in a conversation.

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Empty loading dock at dusk, roller door up, lit from inside.
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If America is still a guess, we should talk.

Vommuli Ventures is the demand infrastructure for industrial equipment in America. Manufacturers plug into it to reach every American buyer for their machines.

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