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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1989

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FS VISITS FACTORIES IN TAI PO INDUSTRIAL ESTATE

THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY, SIR PIERS VISITED A MICROMOTOR

MANUFACTURER

AND A

JACOBS,

BREWERY

TODAY (WEDNESDAY}

IN THE ΤΑΙ

PO

INDUSTRIAL ESTATE AS PART OF HIS FACTORY FAMILIARISATION PROGRAMME.

SIR

PIERS

ΤΟ LIMITED WHICH

A WORLD LEADER MANUFACTORY TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT IN MICROMOTORS.

FIRST WENT

JOHNSON

IS

ELECTRIC

INNOVATION IN

INDUSTRIAL

AND

EMPLOYING NEARLY 2,000 PEOPLE AT

HOLDS

SUPPLIER ELECTRIC IS A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL PATENTS ON THE TECHNOLOGY, SIR PIERS WAS TOLD.

OF

THE ΤΑΙ PO PLANT, JOHNSON MICROMOTORS AND

SCORES OF

MICROMOTORS ARE

USED IN

APPLIANCES AND AUTOMOBILES.

EVERYDAY

ITEMS

SUCH AS

HOUSEHOLD

WINDOWS, THE SENSOR-ADJUSTED

SIR PIERS LEARNT THAT THE POWER REARVIEW MIRROR AND THE FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM IN CARS ARE ALL BY TINY MOTORS WHICH JOHNSON ELECTRIC IS SPECIALISED IN.

THE MICROMOTOR HE WAS TOLD THAT ALTHOUGH INVENTED BY THE UNITED STATES, HONG KONG IS REGARDED CENTRES OF DESIGN AND PRODUCTION.

WAS

POWERED

ORIGINALLY

AS ONE OF THE

AND

DOES NOT PLAN TO SIR PIERS UNDERSTOOD THAT JOHNSON ELECTRIC DIVERSIFY OUT OF MICROMOTORS AS THIS INDUSTRY IS ALREADY DIVERSIFYING

INNOVATION FLOW OF TECHNOLOGICAL ITSELF: THERE IS A CONSTANT END-USERS DEMAND FOR PRODUCTS WHICH ARE SMALLER, OF LIGHTERWEIGHT, EASIER TO USE AND MORE ENERGY-EFFICIENT.

THE UNITED STATES THE LARGEST MARKET FOR JOHNSON ELECTRIC IS

HONG KONG AND CHINA WHICH TAKES ABOUT ONE-THIRD OF ITS PRODUCTION. TAKE ANOTHER THIRD WHILE EUROPE AND ASIA SPLIT THE REMAINING THIRD.

BREWERY WHICH STARTED LATER, SIR PIERS VISITED THE CARLSBERG ITS PRODUCTION LINES IN TAI PO INDUSTRIAL ESTATE 10 YEARS AGO.

IS MACHINERY

THE

AND INSTALLED A LARGE AMOUNT OF AUTOMATIC CANNING LINES ARE CAPABLE OF FILLING MORE THAN 1,500 CANS PER MINUTE.

THE COMPANY HAS ALSO ADOPTED MEASURES TO PREVENT

ENVIRONMENTAL

POLLUTION.

INDUSTRY SINGAPORE.

WHILE ITS

LOCAL SALES CONTINUE MAJOR

MAIN

ARE

OUTLET

MACAU,

FOR

THE CHINA

BEER AND

TO BE THE

MARKETS EXPORT

ACCOMPANYING SIR

PIERS

IN TODAY'S

FACTORY

VISIT WERE THE THE DIRECTOR

OF

SECRETARY FOR TRADE AND INDUSTRY, MR JOHN CHAN, AND INDUSTRY, MR T.H. BARMA.

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