British Products in China - some good news

[robm3]

on a recent visit to Linde's Chinese Factory (forklifts) I noticed containers with UK paperwork, on further investigation it seems they import Perkins diesels from Peterborough, around 500 per month. Important to note that all these end up being used in China too!
A nice surprise...


(seems the German designers insist on the UK motor)

[robm3]

The extension units were produced in Germany, the engines were a mixture of Perkins and Yanmar. The sand cust bodies, welding and assembly Chinese. The entire factory was clearly run on Western manufacturing principals. Sadly the complete unit costs four times as much as cheapest local competitor but was being brought by other Western backed companies. In fact we're part of the KKR group of companies and the motto is "eat our own cooking"

Anyhow after spending five odd years visiting Asian manufacturing it was great to finally see British built products being used!