MFG.com is the largest global sourcing marketplace for the manufacturing industry. MFG.com's platform enables companies to intelligently connect, source, collaborate and perform due diligence with transparency and intellectual property protection. It supports virtually all manufacturing process and industrial components, is in seven major languages, more than 50 currencies and has more than 200,000 members on five continents. For more information: www.MFG.com. The new MFGWatch is based on separate but correlative input from the online marketplace’s membership of manufacturing buyers and their suppliers. Over time it is designed to be a barometer of manufacturing trends.