NEWS Yushin sets up in
Germans Yushin Precision Equip- ment, which supplies robots for injection moulding machines, has established a local subsidiary called Yushin Europe in the suburbs of Munich, Germany, “aiming at enhancing marketing channels and upgrading our service system in the European market”. This brings its total number of subsidi- aries worldwide to 13. The company had
previously supplied services in Europe through its UK subsidiary. However, it said, “taking the consequences of Brexit into account”, it decided to set up in Munich, where there is convenient access to other areas of Germany and Eastern Europe, to manage its business over the whole of Europe. �
www.yushinamerica.com
Brexit blamed for falling UK car production
According to figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders (SMMT), UK car manufactur- ing output plunged by 44.5% year-on-year in April to reach 70,971. For the first four months of the year, production declined on the same period of 2018 by 22.4%, or 127,240 cars. April also saw the 11th consecutive month-on- month fall. The SMMT attributed the decline in part to slowing demand in key markets and in part to factory shutdowns rescheduled to mitigate against the expected uncertainty of Britain’s exit from the EU on 29 March – as originally planned, but now postponed to 31 October. “The shift in shutdown, which cannot now be repeated for a 31 October deadline, was part of a raft of costly and ongoing
UK car production continues to decline Source: SMMT
contingency measures, including stockpiling, rationalisation, training for new customs procedures and rerouting of logistics – all designed to try to protect business when the UK leaves the customs union and single market,” it said. The SMMT added that this should ease by the end of the year, provided that the UK leaves the EU with a favourable deal and there is
a substantial transition period, as new models will come onstream and production lines will remain active over the usual summer shutdown months. Even so, total output for the year is expected to be 10.5% down. SMMT CEO Mike Hawes
said: “Prolonged instability [about Brexit] has done untold damage.” �
www.smmt.co.uk
VDMA members growing steadily in China
The VDMA, Germany’s plastic and rubber machin- ery manufacturers group, released a fourth China salary survey on the eve of the 20th Chinaplas exhibi- tion in Guangzhou in May. This showed that German and Austrian machinery makers have continued to increase their staff in China over the last six years. Most companies have more than 100 employees, an increase from the 10-50 range that
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prevailed in the 2013 and 2015 surveys. In addition, staff turnover
rate is less than 5% com- pared to an industry average of 21%. Thaddaeus Mueller, Executive Search
Director at Fiducia, which carried out the survey in partnership with the VDMA, attributed this to the “more mature and established organisations of the VDMA member companies in
Krauss Maffei’s machine production facility in Haiyan, China
China”. Many of these now have their own HR teams, which tends to improve retention, he added. There has also been a rise in salaries for both blue- and white-collar workers since 2017. This is driven by higher living costs, more recruitment competi- tion – especially from domestic companies – and a general increase in mini- mum salary requirements. �
https://kug.vdma.org/en
INJECTION WORLD | June 2019
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