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)

[GTIR]

Those Perkins engines have a lot of history.

I saw a stationary one on the back of a 50s truck. It was original and used for winching.

Go UK!

[elster]

GTIR said:

Those Perkins engines have a lot of history.

I saw a stationary one on the back of a 50s truck. It was original and used for winching.

Go UK!

I didn't know there was an alternative to Perkins

[odyssey2200]

elster said:

GTIR said:

Those Perkins engines have a lot of history.

I saw a stationary one on the back of a 50s truck. It was original and used for winching.

Go UK!

I didn't know there was an alternative to Perkins

There probably will be, just as soon as the chinese can copy them in every detail.

[telecat]

odyssey2200 said:

elster said:

GTIR said:

Those Perkins engines have a lot of history.

I saw a stationary one on the back of a 50s truck. It was original and used for winching.

Go UK!

I didn't know there was an alternative to Perkins

There probably will be, just as soon as the chinese can copy them in every detail.

Except the chinese ones will break.

[Glade]

OT I know... An interesting book about manufacturing in china, for those that are interested.



http://www.amazon.co.uk/Poorly-Made-China-Insiders...

[Otispunkmeyer]

Perkins owned by caterpillar.... A US company. But true enough the Perkins engines aren't American designs.

[twister]

I work in the lift safety equipment sector, and China represents a huge market for gear produced anywhere but China - quite a few of the higher-value building contracts there are very clear that certain pieces of kit must be made in the west [1], no matter how good/competitively priced the local equivalents are.

There's even scope to compete against local products on the lower-end projects where no such stipulations are made, as provided the western kit isn't priced too far away from the local stuff, the mere fact that it is western kit can be sufficient incentive to pay that little bit more.


1. or at least, designed in the west and then manufactured in a local factory owned by/closely supervised by the western company, to the same audited quality standards as their kit built elsewhere.

[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!

[elster]

twister said:

I work in the lift safety equipment sector, and China represents a huge market for gear produced anywhere but China - quite a few of the higher-value building contracts there are very clear that certain pieces of kit must be made in the west [1], no matter how good/competitively priced the local equivalents are.

There's even scope to compete against local products on the lower-end projects where no such stipulations are made, as provided the western kit isn't priced too far away from the local stuff, the mere fact that it is western kit can be sufficient incentive to pay that little bit more.


1. or at least, designed in the west and then manufactured in a local factory owned by/closely supervised by the western company, to the same audited quality standards as their kit built elsewhere.

Which lifting safety company do you work for if you don't mind me asking?