Statistics for the first active quarter since the launch of the redeveloped Manufacturing Technologies Association web site indicate that buyers of members’ products are the most frequent users.

Statistics for the first active quarter since the launch of the redeveloped Manufacturing Technologies Association (MTA) web site indicate that prospective buyers of members’ products are the most frequent users of the site.

The site recorded nearly 40,000 visits in the first quarter, 80% of whom accessed the site from the homepage and clicked into the easy to use company and product search facilities on the right-hand side of the home page.

Visitors to the site can search by company, product, overseas principal or trade names, making it easy for users to find suppliers of the product for which they are searching.

The site featured highly on all the top search engines through both relevant keyword and phrase searches.

The Members Online Diary, which can also be accessed from the right-hand side of the home page, is also a one-stop-shop for all industry events, both UK and overseas, and to which MTA members are welcome to submit their events.

MTA Director General, Andrew Manly, said: “We’ll be working hard throughout 2006 to keep the number of visitors to the site rising to help our members sell their products”.