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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1990

STUDY ON PLASTICS INDUSTRY COMMISSIONED

THE

SHOULD BE

INDUSTRY

PROVIDED

DEPARTMENT

HAS

COMMISSIONED

A STUDY ON THE BASIC SUPPORT THE DIRECTOR OF

PLASTICS INDUSTRY WITH A VIEW TO DECIDING WHAT FURTHER

FOR PLASTICS

MANUFACTURERS,

INDUSTRY, MR T.H. BARMA, SAID TODAY (TUESDAY).

TECHNOLOGY SPEAKING AT THE LAUNCHING OF THE HONG KONG PLASTICS

BARMA SAID CENTRE'S INDUSTRIAL CLUB AT THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC, MR

AND MARKET RESEARCH REGULAR TECHNO-ECONOMIC THE STUDY WAS PART OF

BY THE STUDIES MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES.

COMMISSIONED

"THESE STUDIES

DEPARTMENT

ON MAJOR

GROUPS

OF

AIM

WITH AN THEM IN THEIR

то PROVIDE MANUFACTURERS UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IS HAPPENING WORLDWIDE SO AS TO ASSIST UPGRADING THEIR OPERATIONS AND IN ACHIEVING HIGH VALUE-ADDED IN PRODUCTS, HE SAID.

HE SAID A STUDY ON THE PLASTICS INDUSTRY WAS FIRST CONDUCTED IN A 1985 AND RECOMMENDATIONS ARISING FROM IT LED TO THE INTRODUCTION OF

THE

OF THIS TO MEET

DEMANDS RANGE OF INDUSTRIAL SUPPORT SERVICES

CENTRE WAS A NOTABLE PLASTICS TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY. THE HONG KONG EXAMPLE.

THE LATEST STUDY ON THE PLASTICS INDUSTRY WAS COMPLETED TOWARDS THE END OF THIS YEAR, HE SAID.

EXPECTED TO BE

SET

MR BARMA SAID THE HONG KONG PLASTICS TECHNOLOGY CENTRE WAS UP TO PROVIDE A TECHNOLOGY-ORIENTED CONSULTANCY SERVICE TO SUPPORT AND TO HELP THE DEVELOPMENT NEEDS OF LOCAL PLASTICS MANUFACTURERS, THEM INCREASE EFFICIENCY AND PROFITABILITY THROUGH TECHNOLOGY.

"AS THE CENTRE'S

OF. AN

RANGE A WIDE CAPABILITY IN PROVIDING

UP, IT WAS FELT THAT CONSULTANCY SERVICES HAS GRADUALLY BUILT

TO ENSURE THAT THE SERVICES INDUSTRIAL CLUB SHOULD BE ESTABLISHED PROVIDED BY THE CENTRE CAN REACH A GREATER NUMBER OF MANUFACTURERS.

"THE ESTABLISHMENT

OF THE INDUSTRIAL

IS CLUB

PARTICULARLY

FACE

MANUFACTURERS TO TIMELY IN THAT IT WILL BE ABLE TO HELP OUR PLASTICS UPGRADE THEIR OPERATIONS IN VIEW OF THE GROWING COMPETITION THEY

HE SAID. IN WORLD MARKETS,

[LI

MR BARMA SAID WHILE THE HONG KONG PLASTICS INDUSTRY THIS POSITION COMPETITIVE IN MANY SECTORS, NOTABLY TOYS, THREATENED BY THE PACE OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE ON THE ONE THE IMPROVED CAPABILITIES OF OUR COMPETITORS ON THE OTHER.

"THIS REINFORCES THE NEED FOR MOVE TOWARDS GREATER EFFICIENCY AND THEY ARE TO MAINTAIN THEIR COMPETITIVENESS.

WAS STILL WAS BRING HAND AND

ΤΟ OUR PLASTICS MANUFACTURERS

PRODUCTS IF HIGHER VALUE-ADDED

HIGH VALUE-ADDED

THROUGH

AND

PRODUCT PRECISION

AND

"TECHNOLOGY IS THE KEY TO ACHIEVING PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH, QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INNOVATION, HE SAID.

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