| May 2006 | |
| Top 20 Equipment Brands | |
| MCN’s
Service Center Top 20 Equipment Brands |
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Service center
executives reveal some of their favorite makes of metal processing
equipment in this informal top-of-mind brand survey by Metal
Center News. Cincinnati
Inc., maker of metal cutting, shearing and forming equipment, heads
MCN’s 2006 Top 20 list of equipment brands favored by
service center executives. Also
moving up on the list were Red Bud Industries, HE&M Saw, Hyd-Mech,
MG Systems and ESAB. New to the list are Kasto-Racine, Mazak, Trumpf,
Hypertherm and Koike Aronson. This
year’s Top 20 includes eight makers of saws and blades, seven
makers of thermal cutting systems, four makers of coil processing
lines and one maker of shears and press brakes. This
Top-of-Mind Brands list was compiled as part of MCN’s
annual Outlook Survey conducted in October and November 2005. An
informal poll, it does not attempt to rank companies by size or
market share, but rather to measure the relative level of brand
awareness they have achieved among respondents to the survey. As part of MCN’s poll, respondents were simply asked to indicate the brands they favor by listing the suppliers they would endorse and buy from in the future. The resulting list of companies, ranked by their number of mentions, gives a rough indication of which ones command the largest share of mind among service center executives. Note that in several cases, companies received the same number of mentions, thus resulting in ties in this year’s ranking.
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