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Japan Start High-End Machine Tool Production in China

time:2011-09-10

According to "Japanese Economic News" due to rising labor costs, high-performance machine tool demands in China has been in surge, machine tool sales has been expanded to three times over that in Japan, the amount to 2 trillion yen. In the situation of yen appreciation, the leading machine tool manufacturers from Japan decided to produce high-performance products in China, to meet the needs of the market.


The Japanese companies has always been good at High-performance machine tool, in order to prevent the loss of technology, the Japanese has been long-standing domestic production and export overseas. However, due to appreciation of yen, Japanese companies is in disadvantage in the competitiveness with European companies. In order not to lose Chinese market, Japanese companies are forced to invest in China to produce high-performance machine tool. Yamazaki Mazak horizontal milling machine  centers production will be dozens in Ningxia; OKUMA company decided to invest 2 billion yen to expand Beijing factory to produce horizontal machining center; Mitsubishi Electric began laser processing milling machine production in Dalian, is expected to double the monthly production from 5 to 10 units.