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IN ADDITION, HE SAID, TWO ABATEMENT NOTICES WERE ISSUED TO THE OWNERS/TENANTS OF A NEARBY BUILDING REQUIRING THEM TO CLEAR UP WITHIN 24 HOURS RUBBISH ACCUMULATED ON THE CANOPY THERE.
SUPPORTED BY THE POLICE, MORE THAN 60 USD STAFF MEMBERS MOVED INTO THE LANE EARLY THIS MORNING. THEY REMOVED A TOTAL OF FOUR-LORRY-LOAD OF JUNK AND REFUSE IN THE LANE WHERE IT WAS LATER HOSED DOWN BY USD CLEANSING STAFF.
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THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY MR PIERS JACOBS, TODAY (MONDAY) VISITED A FACTORY IN THE TAIPO INDUSTRIAL ESTATE WHICH USES ROBOTS.
MR JACOBS WAS TAKEN ON A TOUR OF THE HIGH-TECH, SHOWCASE PLANT OF CHEN HSONG MACHINERY COMPANY LIMITED WHERE HE SAW PLASTIC VIDEO CASSETTES AND THEIR INTERNAL PARTS BEING TURNED OUT WITH THE AID OF ROBOTS AND OTHER COMPUTER-CONTROLLED MACHINERY,
ACCOMPANIED BY THE DIRECTOR OF INDUSTRY, MR K.Y. YEUNG, HE WAS ALSO SHOWN THE DIFFERENT PROCESSES INVOLVED IN THE MANUFACTURING OF PLASTIC INJECTION MOULDING MACHINES, THE COMPANY'S MAIN LINE OF OUTPUT.
CHEN HSONG HAD PICKED UP TWO AWARDS FROM THE CHINESE MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION FOR ITS INJECTION MOULDING MACHINES, ONE THIS YEAR WHEN IT WON THE SECRETARY FOR TRADE AND INDUSTRY AWARD IN THE CMA'S HONGKONG NEW PRODUCTS COMPETITION AND ANOTHER IN 1966.
THE COMPANY IS NOW POISED TO EXPAND ITS OPERATIONS INTO THE MANUFACTURING OF ROBOTS UNDER A JOINT VENTURE AGREEMENT WITH A JAPANESE COMPANY AND THE NEW FACTORY IS SET TO OPEN IN EARLY 1987.
MR JACOBS' VISIT WAS PART OF A SIX-WEEK PROGRAMME OF FAMILIARISATION VISITS WHICH WILL TAKE HIM TO SIX FACTORIES, EACH REPRESENTING A MAJOR SECTOR OF HONGKONG INDUSTRY.
THE MANUFACTURING OF INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY IS ONE OF HONGKONG'S IMPORTANT INDUSTRIES AND AT CHEN HSONG, MR JACOBS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE SOME OF THE ADVANCES THAT HAD BEEN MADE IN THIS FIELD.
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