Days of Delays?Equipment Purchasing Report

The dichotomy in converters' current purchasing power is evident in their top spending plan picks—22 percent favor a $500,000 to $1 million budget for 2001, while 18 percent have less than $25,000 on the spending docket. Has the industry entered a climate of "haves" and "have-nots"?

Tag and label converters, the segment that clearly had the most enthusiastic spending intentions in 2000's survey, didn't form such a united front this year. Twenty-eight percent of these converters favored a $500,000 to $1 million dollar budget for 2000. Only 20 percent plan to spend this much in 2001, though it was the most-often cited equipment budget range.