No damp spirits as UK firms show their mettle

摘要

Uncertainty continues over how serious and long-lived the economic downturn, spreading from the US to Europe and the UK, will prove to be. And given that investment in capital goods is usually one of the first things to be hit, you might expect the buzz around next week's EMO exhibition to be subdued. In fact, among UK-based machine tool makers there is an air of optimism.