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Governor visits two factories in Tai Po
The Governor, the Rt Hon Christopher Patten, today (Wednesday) visited two factories, Thomas De La Rue (Hong Kong) Ltd and Motorola Semiconductors Hong Kong Ltd in Tai Po Industrial Estate.
Accompanied by the Director-General of Industry, Mrs Regina Ip, Mr Patten first visited Thomas De La Rue (Hong Kong) Ltd. He was briefed by the Director and General Manager, Mr David Chapplow, on the factory's production and toured its high-security production area.
Thomas De La Rue (Hong Kong) Ltd prints banknotes for all the note-issuing banks of Hong Kong. Its factory at Tai Po embodies state-of-the-art designs in both print technology and security systems, the two unique features for security printing.
Headquartered in the United Kingdom, the Thomas De La Rue Group is the world's largest independent security printer of banknotes and security documents, printing banknotes for over 80 countries.
The Governor next visited Motorola Semiconductors Hong Kong Ltd, one of the most technologically advanced integrated circuit (IC) packaging factories in Asia. Motorola is engaged in the design, assembly and testing of a full range of advanced semiconductor products.
The manufacturing processes conducted by Motorola are highly automated, making the best use of CIM (computer-integrated manufacturing), CAD (computer- aided design) and CAM (computer-aided manufacturing). Motorola is very quality conscious. It won the 1994 Governor's Award for Industry in Quality.
Mr Patten was briefed by Motorola's Senior Vice-President and General Manager (Asia Pacific Semiconductor Products Group), Mr C D Tam, on the development of Motorola in Hong Kong.
Mr Patten toured the factory's design centre, and IC automated assembly area where he saw a design process demonstration and the front-end and back-end operations.
End/Wednesday, November 8, 1995
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