1.   Almost all coffee machine makers only assemble parts made by other, mostly Italian companies.

2.   As sales and capital spending slow in Japan, machine makers and other manufacturers are receiving an increasing share of their business from overseas, figures show.

3.   But HP is confident that it can run with the big copy machine makers.

4.   Connecticut stocks fell as shares of Xerox Corp. fell after the office machines maker announced an unexpected drop in third-quarter earnings.

5.   For the past year, video-game machine makers and software companies have been developing products geared toward the new generation of machines.

6.   Game sales are crucial to success in the industry since their profit margins are far higher than those on machines, and popular games create loyalty to machine makers.

7.   Investors dumped shares of machine makers as the economy stagnated this summer.

8.   Krones said it would also acquire the operations of insolvent bottler and packaging machine maker Max Kettner Abfuell- und Verpackungsanlagen GmbH.

9.   Machine makers like Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries are also exporting more.

10.   Machinery, auto and chemical makers were the biggest investors, while construction, steel and electrical machine makers spent less.