I want to add three more items to the growing list of Chinese excellence for exports. I could add a lot more, but I just want to make the point that technology controls against China are pointless.
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SANY launches Asia's largest crawler crane
SANY Heavy Industry 1,180-ton crawler crane SCC11800. "SCC11800 crawler crane has a maximum lifting capacity of 1180 tons; the equivalent of lifting six [fully-loaded] Boeing 747 aircraft" (e.g. 88 tons empty weight per Boeing 747).
November 27, 2009 The special-engineering company in Guangdong, with SANY SCC9000-type 900-ton crawler crane, successfully lifts the dome into place at Ningde Nuclear Power Station 1000MW nuclear power plant No. 1.
Sany launches Asia's largest crawler crane.(News roundup) | HighBeam Business: Arrive Prepared
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Sany launches Asia's largest crawler crane. (News roundup)
Article from: Cranes Today | March 1,
2008
SHANGHAI
SANY SCIENCE & Technology Co, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sany Group, is launching a crawler crane with a maximum lifting capacity of 900t (and a maximum load-moment of 13,500 tm), which it claims is the largest-capacity crawler ever made by an Asian company.
In the past, large crawler cranes have only been available in China as imports, but
over the last few years Chinese manufacturers have rolled out larger and larger crawlers. Shanghai Sany said its goal is "to fully replace the import of crawler cranes and enter the international market."
In superlift configuration, the crane can lift 900t at 7m radius (and out to 12m), and 800t to 17m. In this …"
SANY America - Heavy Equipment Manufacturing
"About SANY America
SANY Group Company Ltd. was established in 1989 in China.
SANY is the largest heavy equipment manufacturer in China, and also one of the top 10 heavy equipment manufacturers in the world. SANY employs more than 30,000 employees worldwide.
SANY Heavy Industry, a core entity of SANY Group, is a publicly traded company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. SANY Group has had an annual growth rate of 50% for the past 10 years. Despite the impact of global economy recession in 2008 and 2009,
SANY Group maintained a 50% annual growth rate and achieved $3 billion in sales revenue.
As one of the overseas subsidiaries of Sany Heavy Industry Company, Sany America Inc. was founded in 2006. This North American headquarters is located in Peachtree City, Georgia.
September 12, 2007 Sany Heavy Industry signed an investment deal with the State of Georgia. According to this agreement, Sany shall invest in 228 acres and over $100 million to create and establish a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility; constructing and engineering Sany products to be competitive both in price and quality for all of North America. We have broken ground on phase one of our facility and estimate completion in the second half of 2011. The first phase on construction will consist of a 360,000 square foot manufacturing facility as well as 3 stories of office area totaling 180,000 square feet. With an expected 300 employees by the third year,
SANY America will focus on R&D, assembly, marketing and sales of our Truck Mounted Concrete Pumps, Stackers, Handlers, Motor Graders, Drilling Rigs, Excavators and Hydraulic Crawler Cranes which will begin production soon after the completion of our manufacturing facility.
With pride we integrate global resources to provide our customers with excellent equipment and services with unique advantages in cost, performance and localized manufacture, localized management and localized services. At Sany America, we are committed to the North American Market and bringing our customers a successful and outstanding product."
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Machine Tool Superpower (Machine tools: the foundation of industrialization - they're used to make everything)
World's largest manufacturers of machine tools in 2010:
1. China - $20 billion
2. Japan - $11.8 billion
3. Germany - $9.7 billion
4. Italy - $5.2 billion
5. South Korea - $4.5 billion
6. Taiwan - $3.8 billion
Source:
2011 World Machine Tool Output & Consumption Survey - Producers
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World's largest exporters of machine tools in 2010:
1. Japan - $7.8 billion
2. Germany - $6.6 billion
3. Italy - $3.3 billion
4. Taiwan - $3 billion
5. Switzerland - $1.8 billion
6. China - $1.8 billion
Source:
2011 World Machine Tool Output & Consumption Survey - Exporters
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Taiwan 6th-largest machine tool maker - CNA ENGLISH NEWS
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Taiwan 6th-largest machine tool maker
2011/07/09 20:39:28
Taipei, July 9 (CNA) Taiwan ranked as the sixth-largest machine tool maker in the world in 2010 in terms of production value, the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) said Saturday.
Citing data released by Gardner Publications Inc., a U.S.-based publisher of media on durable goods manufacturing, the DGBAS said output of Taiwan-made machine tools totaled US$3.8 billion (NT$109 billion) in 2010, up 67.8 percent from a year earlier.
China's production value of machine tools -- worth US$20 billion -- was the largest in the world last year, followed by Japan' s US$11.8 billion and Germany's US$9.7 billion, according to the data.
The top three producers accounted for 62.7 percent of the world's total output, which rose 21.2 percent from 2010 to US$66.3 billion, the data shows.
After the financial meltdown of 2008, the global machine tool sector got back on the road to recovery from the second half of 2009, the government agency said.
In 2010, Japan ranked as the world's largest machine tool exporter, selling US$7.8 billion-worth of products overseas, up 85.8 percent from the previous year, followed by Germany and Italy.
Taiwan was the fourth-largest machine tool exporter, shipping US$3 billion-worth of products abroad, up 72.1 percent year-on-year. (By Lin Hui-chun and Frances Huang)"
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Taiwan shows its prowess as World #4 in machine tool exports
The following videos are all high-definition (e.g. make sure to select 720p for the YouTube video in the bottom right-hand corner), widescreen, and in English. Each one is only a few minutes long. The videos provide a comprehensive and entertaining look at Taiwan's machine tool industry. For anyone interested in technology, I highly recommend watching them.
General overview of Taiwan's machine tool industry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzDUYIcKX6A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV29SN0eFsg&feature=related
The following videos have a similar format. The first two-thirds of each video discuss the outstanding technical features of the machine tool. For an ordinary person like myself, it is the last third of the video with action-packed footage that I find the most interesting.
High-tech features of specific machine tools:
CNC Engraving Machines, Laser Engraving & Cutting Machines
A beautifully-compact machine with 0.005 mm accuracy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyGMA7g1n-8
CNC Lathe, CNC Automatic Lathe
"Ultra-fast efficient machining"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edJYIarO4R0&feature=related
CNC Lathe, CNC Turning Center
Heavy machining of medium carbon steel, steel alloy, and aluminum alloy
"Fast turns and guaranteed repeatable accuracy"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfaOgAqTguM&NR=1&feature=fvwp
CNC Turning Center, CNC Turning Lathe
"For milling and complicated machining"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjGJaAK1fhQ&feature=related
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Taiwan remains world's biggest in LED-industry scale
Taiwan Boasts World's Largest LED Capacity in 2011; 27 New LED Fabs Going Up In Asia This Year | SEMI.ORG
2011 LED Capacity by Region (
Source: SEMI Opto/LED Fab Forecast May 2011)
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Taiwan Boasts World's Largest LED Capacity in 2011; 27 New LED Fabs Going Up In Asia This Year
June 8, 2011
Demand for Equipment Rising: Heavyweights Converge on LED Manufacturing Section at SEMICON Taiwan
LED application products -- tablet computers, LED TVs and smartphones -- are all the rage, fueling the rapid rise and proliferation of Taiwan-based LED businesses. Corporations such as AU Optronics (AUO), TSMC and CHIMEI have all crossed over into the LED industry, forging yet another trillion-[New Taiwan] dollar industry in Taiwan.
SEMI Opto/LED Fab Forecast has projected 27 new LED fabs starting operation in the Asia region (excluding Japan) this year. Of these, 17 will be built in China and 7 in Taiwan."
Taiwan remains world's biggest in LED industry scale - CNA ENGLISH NEWS
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Taiwan remains world's biggest in LED-industry scale
by Jeffrey Wu
2011/12/25 14:21:41
Taipei, Dec. 25 (CNA) The output value of Taiwan's LED industry remained the world's biggest in 2011, despite lower-than-expected market growth, according to a local industry association.
As the eurozone's debt problems dragged down demand, the output value of the global LED market grew by only 2.6 percent to US$16.6 billion (NT$502.48 billion) this year from US$16.1 billion in 2010, the Photonics Industry and Technology Development Association (PIDA) said in a recent report.
The PIDA is an organization jointly set up by the government and Taiwan's business and academic circles with the aim of promoting the local photonics industry.
In terms of regional performance,
Taiwan still topped the market with a total output value of US$4.54 billion in 2011 -- including those of the upstream epitaxial wafers -- although the figure declined 0.4 percent from last year's US$4.56 billion, the PIDA said.
South Korea, which has run its LED sector aggressively in the past few years, ranked third behind Taiwan and Japan with output values of US$3.35 billion this year, representing an increase of nearly 5 percent from last year, the association said.
Some South Korean companies have launched low-priced products to tap into the lighting market but they still need to purchase LED components from Taiwan to save costs because of their limited scale of production, the PIDA said.
The association added that LED output value in Europe plunged 7.3 percent from US$1.74 billion in 2010 to US$1.61 in 2011 due to the impact of the European debt crisis and fierce competition.
On the contrary to Europe's decline, China's LED output value surged 26 percent year-on-year from 2010 thanks to local government support, the highest growth among all regions, the PIDA said."