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News Release from: Renishaw
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 27 January 2006
Renishaw opens Chinese trading office
Metrology company, Renishaw, has opened a subsidiary company in Shanghai to support its rapidly expanding customer base in China, and plans to open a four more Representative Offices in China.
Renishaw, a world leading metrology company, has opened a subsidiary company as a trading office in Shanghai to support its rapidly expanding customer base in China, with plans to open a further four Representative Offices there within the next twelve months Renishaw Shanghai Trading Co is based in the Unicom International Tower, and will enable customers in China to purchase from Renishaw in the local RMB currency
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 5 Sep 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Speaking about the new company, Andy Buttrey, managing director of Renishaw Shanghai Trading, said: "We will be supplying the full range of Renishaw's market leading products, including CMM probe systems, touch probes and laser tool setters for CNC machine tools, linear and rotary encoders for position feedback, calibration systems for machine performance analysis, and Raman spectroscopy systems for spectral analysis." Buttrey has worked with Renishaw in Asia for the last 13 years, with a specific focus on the Chinese market.
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There are currently around thirty employees in China, but with offices planned in Guangzhou, Chengdu, Shenyang and Qingdao, this number is set to rise rapidly.
The company is currently seeking sales and support engineers to work from these new offices, and is also recruiting home-based engineers to support customers in multiple cities across China, including Xian, Wuhan, Xiamen and Kunming.
The Renishaw Group currently has 34 offices operating in 27 countries, with a total of 1,865 employees.
* Asian Technical Summit - September 2005 - Shanghai was also the recent venue for an Asian Technical Summit, jointly hosted by Renishaw and CADCAM developer Delcam.
Attended by industry representatives from nine countries, the event covered all aspects of the product development process and showed how the two hosts can help companies improve efficiency at every stage from initial design through to manufacturing and inspection.
The latest methods were described to increase productivity, improve quality and reduce lead times, through the application of modern technology.
Speaking at the Technical Summit, Jean-Marc Meffre, Renishaw's managing director - Far East, said: "Asian companies in general and Chinese companies in particular, are realising that lower labour costs can only offer a competitive advantage in the short term.
They know that long-term competitiveness relies on introducing more of the advanced technology offered by companies like Renishaw and Delcam." Delcam's marketing manager, Peter Dickin added: "Our software works extremely well with Renishaw's hardware to provide comprehensive solutions to manufacturing problems across a wide range of industries. Request free introductory details about products from Renishaw ...
Together the two companies can offer powerful manufacturing technology to Asian companies that are looking to compete on an international basis.".
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