THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1990
ACTING GOVERNOR VISITS FACTORIES
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THE ACTING GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID FORD, TODAY (THURSDAY} VISITED
TWO OF A MACHINERY FACTORY AND A PRINTING FIRM WHICH REPRESENT
HONG
KONG'S FASTEST GROWING INDUSTRIES.
THE TWO FACTORIES ARE LOCATED AT TAI PO INDUSTRIAL ESTATE.
SIR DAVID FIRST VISITED CHEN HSONG MACHINERY COMPANY LIMITED, WHICH PRODUCES PLASTICS INJECTION MACHINES, SMALL INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS, PRECISION MOULDS AND OTHER RELATED PRODUCTS AND SERVICES.
HE WAS TOLD THAT CHEN HSONG WAS THE FIRST FACTORY TO EMPLOY THE "COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING" CONCEPT. THIS INCLUDES THE COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN AND COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING (CAD/CAM) SYSTEMS, THE FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM {FMS), THE AUTOMATIC STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM (ASRS) AND THE MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (MIS).
AND
THE INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY INDUSTRY HAS GROWN FROM 695 ESTABLISHMENTS IN 1970 TO 4,817 IN 1988
THE NUMBER OF PERSONS ABOUT
OF ONE-THIRD ENGAGED FROM 6,814 TO 26,018. IT SUPPLIES
LOCAL
INDUSTRIAL REQUIREMENTS.
MILLION IN
1989.
THE
THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY
то $2,910 INCREASED FROM $9 MILLION IN 1960 LARGEST EXPORT ITEM IS PLASTICS MACHINERY.
SIR DAVID NEXT VISITED TIMES RINGIER (HONG KONG) WHICH OCCUPIES 100,000 SQUARE FEET ON THE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE.
LIMITED,
HAS
THE COMPANY EMPLOYS STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY IN COMMERCIAL PRINTING, INCLUDING TWO WEB OFFSET PRINTING PRESSES, ONE OF WHICH
WAS THE FIRST A SIX-UNIT SYSTEM CAPABLE OF PRINTING SIX COLOURS. IT SUCH MACHINE INSTALLED IN HONG KONG.
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THE LOCAL PRINTING INDUSTRY HAS GROWN FROM 532 FACTORIES IN ENGAGED GOING UP 1975 TO 3,980 IN 1989, WITH THE NUMBER OF FROM 19,488 TO 36,414 DURING THE SAME PERIOD.
GROSS OUTPUT OF THE INDUSTRY GREW FROM $4,588 MILLION
MILLION IN TO $8,480
1987, WITH THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC INCREASING FROM $32 MILLION IN 1969 TO $3,211 MILLION IN 1989.
IN 1981 EXPORTS
ARE PRINTING INDUSTRY
BOOKS THE LARGEST EXPORT ITEMS OF THE
ABOUT HALF THE AND PAMPHLETS, WHICH HAVE CONSISTENTLY ACCOUNTED FOR VALUE OF THE INDUSTRY'S DOMESTIC EXPORTS SINCE 1960.
SIR DAVID
WAS MET
COMPANIES WHO GAVE HIM A MANUFACTURING PLANTS.
BY THE SENIOR
GUIDED TOUR OF
OF MANAGEMENT
THEIR
THE TWO RESPECTIVE
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