Producer Price Index for Metalworking machinery and equipment

Description

PPI or Producer Price Index (also known as wholesale price index) for metalworking machinery and equipment. PPI data is normalized with price for 1982 = 100. The PPI value presented here is the average of the monthly value for each year. Includes the following:

  • power-driven handtools, including parts and attachments
  • power-driven handtools, pneumatic, hydraulic, and powder-actuated
  • power-driven handtools, battery-powered (cordless), including parts
  • power-driven handtools, electric (except battery powered), including parts
  • welding machines and equipment
  • arc welding machines, components, and accessories, excluding electrodes and stud welding equip
  • resistance welders, components, accessories, and electrodes
  • arc welding electrodes, metal
  • gas welding and cutting equipment, parts, attachments, and accessories
  • other welding equipment, components, and accessories (excluding arc, resistance, and gas)
  • industrial process furnaces and ovens
  • industrial process furnaces and ovens, except parts and attachments
  • parts and attachments for industrial process furnaces and ovens
  • cutting tools and accessories
  • small cutting tools
  • end mills and milling cutters
  • threading tools, including blanks, tips and inserts
  • carbon and high-speed steel, shank, solid, tipped carbide twist drills
  • taps, carbide indexible, and throwaway inserts for machine tools
  • other cutting tools for machine tools, excluding tips and blanks
  • precision measuring tools
  • other machine tool attachments and accessories
  • abrasive products
  • nonmetallic sized grains, powders, and flour abrasives (incl. graded only)
  • nonmetallic abrasive products (including diamond abrasives)
  • nonmetallic coated abrasive products and buffing wheels, polishing wheels, and laps
  • metal abrasives including steel and iron grid, shot, and sand, and other metal abrasives
  • metal cutting machine tools
  • metal grinding, polishing, buffing, honing, and lapping machines
  • other metal-cutting machine tools
  • metal machining centers
  • rebuilt metal-cutting machine tools and parts for metal-cutting machine tools
  • metal forming machine tools
  • metal-forming machine tools (except rebuilt and parts)
  • metal punching and shearing (power & manual), and bending and forming machines (power only)
  • metalworking presses (except forging and die-stamping presses)
  • other metal-forming machine tools (except presses)
  • rebuilt metal-forming machine tools and parts for metal-forming machine tools
  • tools, dies, jigs, fixtures & ind. molds
  • special tools, dies, jigs, and fixtures
  • jigs and fixtures, including parts
  • metalworking dies and die sets
  • standard punches, industrial prototypes, die parts & other special tooling for dies
  • industrial molds and mold boxes
  • industrial injection-type molds made of metal for plastics
  • other industrial molds and mold boxes


PPI data updated: Oct 8, 2019

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