In Sino-Japanese plastics trade today, almost all of the investment flows from Japan toward China. But injection press maker Haitian International Holdings Ltd. is reversing that, at least in a small way, opening up a technical center in ...
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Pushed by the record-high yen and economic problems at home, Japan’s large plastic machinery manufacturing industry is accelerating its investment in lower-cost countries, expanding both in China and elsewhere in Asia. Japan Steel ...
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Flooding in Thailand appear to have done major damage to some of the country’s plastics processors, according to reports emerging from machinery suppliers with sizable business there. Tokyo-based Toshiba Machine Co. Ltd., for example, ...
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As Japan’s largest plastics show kicked off Oct. 25, the country’s machinery industry faces an uncertain time, with its global production up but companies under pressure to move manufacturing to low-cost spots. Japanese ...
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The last five years have brought big changes to China’s Haitian International Holdings Ltd. The maker of injection molding machines has more than doubled sales to 7.05 billion yuan (US$1.1 billion) solely on organic growth, launched ...
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Haitian International Holdings Ltd., China's largest injection press maker, saw revenues rise 15 percent in the first half of the year to 3.70 billion yuan ($578.3 million), as record-high exports, particularly to Southeast Asia and Eastern ...
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Shanghai (Sept. 6, 1: 15 p. M. ET) -- Equipment maker Wittmann Battenfeld GmbH plans to start assembling injection molding machines in China in 2013, its first such production in Asia, in a bid to reduce costs and shorten delivery times. ...
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To better tap factories moving to inland areas in central China, Japanese injection press maker Nissei Plastic Industrial Co. Ltd. has established a service office in Wuhan, Hubei province. The Nagano, Japan-based firm said Japanese and ...
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Beneath the eye-catching growth in China’s plastics machinery market, there are signs of big changes, with domestic-made equipment taking significant market share from imported machinery in what has become one of the world’s ...
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