Selected articles on industrial development in emerging economies

Taiwan: Machine-tool orders jam Taiwan's production lines

Thanks to the economic recovery, Taiwan`s machine-tool industry is booming. Major manufacturers all experienced a sales growth of more than 100% in the first four months of the year, and their production lines are booked full through the second quarter.

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Taiwan: Global meltdown fails to hobble machining-center makers

Despite occasional reports of a gradually recovering global economy, Taiwan’s machining center manufacturing sector is still reeling from the global meltdown. Orders are coming in from China, where coastal areas are suffering from labor shortages due to unacceptably low wages offered.

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Taiwan machine-tool sector's export plummets in 2009

Taiwan exported USD 1.7 bn of machine tools in 2009, down 53% year-on-year, according to customs-cleared statistics compiled by the Taiwan Machine Tool Foundation. Of this, exports for metal-cutting machine tools came to USD 1.3 bn, down 55% and that for metal-forming machines totaled USD 419 m, down 45%.

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Taiwan: Cross-strait cooperation in the offing

Taiwan's machine tool manufacturers focus on high-tier products while those of China still concentrate on low-end products. In this situation, China's machine shops should adopt the price-competitive Taiwan-made high-tier machine tools to boost their production efficiency. In this way, Taiwan would supplant Japan and South Korea in the high-tier machine-tool market across the Taiwan Strait.

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Taiwan: Fair Friend Group teams up with machinery firms in Beijing

Fair Friend Group, Taiwan's largest conglomerate of machine tools, has signed strategic alliances with Beijing-based two machinery works, including Kaijieli Group and Beijing No. 1 Machine Tools Works, showing the machinery industry across the Taiwan Strait has turned a new page, shifting from competition to cooperation.

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India: Machine tool makers de-risk their business

The economic downturn of the past 12 months has taught Indian industry many lessons in its quest to become competitive, cut costs and stay alive in the market. Some sectors have had to change the very way they do business. The machine tool sector, considered the mother of all industries, has learned a lesson in how to de-risk itself.

Business Standard

Taiwan's exports of machine-tools hit USD 710m January-May

Taiwan exported USD 710 million of machine tools in the first five months of this year, down 54.8% year-on-year, according to the Taiwan Machine Tool Foundation (TMTF). Regarding specific items, the machining centers saw an annualized decline of 64.7% in exports, lathes (-50.1%), grinding machines (-62.7%), drilling, boring and milling machines (-50.8%), shaping, sawing and gearing machines (-43.7%), presses and shearing machines (-44.1%), and other metal-forming machines (-48.1%).

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Taiwan: New 'community' to boost development of machining centers

The Precision Machinery Research and Development Center (PMC), a non-profit organization based in the central Taiwan city of Taichung, has launched a 'five-axis machining center service community'. The new group of 17 leading domestic makers of machine tools has been set up at the direction of the Industrial Development Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

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Taiwan’s tsunami-survival plan

The Taiwanese refer to the current global manufacturing recession as an “economic tsunami”. So how does Taiwan plan to weather the tsunami and protect its lucrative machine tool industry? The answer is to invest in research and development to turn crisis into opportunity in the face of global financial turmoil.

American Machinist

Taiwan: Large-sized machine tools buck the industrial downturn

Large-sized, multitasking, energy-saving, five-axis machining centers have become the mainstay of Taiwan`s machine-tool industry. Many manufacturers in the line believe that these machines will become their most important engine for sales growth in 2009 and beyond.

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Czech machine tool, forming machine production up by 13% in 2008

According to the data of the Association of Engineering Technology, Czech machine tool and forming machine production rose by 13 percent year-on-year last year despite the upcoming economic crisis. This year, it is expected to fall by more than a tenth.

Prague Daily Monitor

Belarus cooperates with Russia and Ukraine in machine tools

For the recent two years, the Belarusian machine tool industry has reached a new level. Currently, Belarusian machine building companies work with partners from Russia, Ukraine and the Czech Republic on projects not only for domestic customers but also for exports.

The National Legal Internet Portal of the Republic of Belarus

China: The 11th International Machine Tool Show

Firmly established as one of the four largest machine tool shows in the world, the 2009 CIMT will feature 650 domestic and 550 foreign manufacturers. In total, some 60 different countries and regions will be represented at the event, facilitating direct interchange between the world's foremost manufacturers and end users in this field.

People's Daily Online

India: Downturn deals a blow to machine tools industry

The Indian machine tools industry has to adopt new strategies and drastically reorient itself if it is to emerge fighting fit from the current downturn. Its future is important as despite the industry’s relatively smaller size the world over, it mirrors the health of manufacturing in any economy. The immediate problem with the industry, which has been growing at 15-20 per cent annually for several years, is the overall slowdown in manufacturing and the severe downturn that has affected the automotive industry. This has meant sales in the current year running at around 15 per cent less than the previous year.

Business Standard

Tata Motors' arm TAL expands portfolio

Tata Motors' machine tools subsidiary TAL Manufacturing Solutions has expanded its portfolio by adding three new, indigenously developed products: Horizontal Machining Centre (H-500 Plus), Vertical Machining Center (V- 800 Plus) and Vertical Turning Centre (MTV B-500). The company plans to introduce more such tools in partnership with Germany-based Heller.

Business Standard

India: Machine tool industry flat in FY 2009

The Indian machine tool industry will survive and grow despite a 5 per cent cancellation in orders from the prospective customers in the automobile and auto components sector. The industry, which had been growing at an average 30 per cent over the last five years, is likely to remain flat during the current financial year.

Business Standard