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SCHMOLZ + Bickenbach is expanding
its sales and services network in
China. In January the company began
operating a new warehouse for special
steel with a first focus on tool steel in
Chongqing.
The 2,000m² facility is equipped with
sawing technologies and high-tech
milling machines. Customers benefit
from shorter delivery times and
tailor-made cutting services for the tool
steels from the group’s own
production.
The product portfolio includes
cold-work and high-speed steel
grades, steel for plastic moulding and
hot work steel from the Schmolz +
Bickenbach companies Deutsche
Edelstahlwerke, Germany, and Finkl
Steel (USA).
With expanded sales and service
capacities, Schmolz + Bickenbach
International is now also able to meet
the needs of local companies in the
automotive and plastic moulding
industries from a central location in
China.
The Chongqing-Chengdu area
represents between 10 and 15 per cent
of the total Chinese tool steel demand.
Jack Huan, former sales manager of
the Ninghai (Zhejiang) warehouse, is
appointed manager of the new
warehouse.
He has many years of experience in
senior management in the Chinese tool
steel business and with his team will
provide local customers with the
necessary technical support to benefit
from the group’s product quality.
Other warehousing and commercial
platforms of Schmolz + Bickenbach
International in China are located in
Dongguan (Guangdong), in Taicang
(Jiangsu), in Ninghai (Zhejiang) and in
Shanghai. The group will now be able
to provide service and support to the
most important industrial areas in
China.
Schmolz + Bickenbach International
GmbH – Switzerland
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It’s all in a name!
DS Brookes Ltd, Davis-Standard’s subsidiary in the West
Midlands, UK, will now be called Davis-Standard Limited. The
modification is in name only, better reflecting Davis-Standard’s
global market position and current activities.
Davis-Standard Ltd will continue supplying screws and
barrels associated with the DS Brookes brand, and will
remain Davis-Standard’s key supplier of extrusion systems
for the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) region. This
includes support of aftermarket and spare parts activities
across all product platforms.
“The name change better aligns with Davis-Standard’s
corporate uniformity in serving customers worldwide,” said
Mark Woodgate, managing director of Davis-Standard Ltd.
“In addition to this development, we are pleased to
announce that our facility is Davis-Standard’s European
service centre for blown film, servicing the recently acquired
Gloucester Engineering product range.”
Davis-Standard LLC – USA
Website:
Free monthly webinars
The IWCS International Cable & Connectivity Symposium has
launched a free monthly webinar series of peer-reviewed
presentations on technologies and trends in wire, cable and
connectivity for the communications, data, electronics,
power, industrial, automotive and aerospace industries.
Held on the third Friday of every month at 10.30am Eastern
USA time, the webinars run for 45 minutes and include an
interactive question-and-answer period. A webinar
recording is available on in the Webinar
Archive about two weeks after each live presentation.
Launched in November 2015, the month following the IWCS
2015 Symposium, the IWCS Webinar Series presents
technical topics of interest to those in the industry. An
example of a popular recent topic from March is
Development of a Totally Dry Aerial Dielectric Self Support
Cable Family, which was presented by Tim Goddard of OFS.
IWCS – USA
Website:
Expanding sales and service in China
❍ With the new warehouse for special steel in Chongqing, China, the company is able to
meet the needs of local manufacturers of automotive components and plastic moulds
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