Total domestic and foreign orders for industrial heating equipment, as reported by 15 members of the Industrial Heating Equipment Association (IHEA), for the first quarter of 2005, were $60.84 million. Comparing orders received and reported by the same companies for both years, there was an increase of 15.3% from the first quarter of 2004. North American orders for all industrial heating equipment for the first quarter of 2005 were reported at $51.5 million. For companies that reported in both years, there was an increase of 14.0% from orders reported in the same quarter of 2004. Foreign orders for the first quarter were $9.4 million. The comparison of same company reports for foreign orders showed an increase of 23.7% from the first quarter of 2004. Domestic industrial furnace and oven orders only for the first quarter of 2005 totaled $17.07 million, an increase of 41.0% from the same quarter in 2004. Other domestic equipment orders, including process control systems, industrial combustion equipment, replacement parts and other types of equipment totaled $34.40 million for the first quarter of 2005, a 20.3% decrease for the same reporting companies from the same quarter in 2004.