China proofing UK machinery

Posted on 5 May 2016 by The Manufacturer

Tony Hague, managing director of PP Electrical Systems (PPES), gives an insight into how UK machinery builders can ‘China proof’ themselves against lower cost replicas.

We’ve heard it many times before and now many UK machinery manufacturers are seeing it first hand…the threat of the Far East replica. This increasingly common threat – once only reserved for the higher volume component producers – is now taking a firm stranglehold on the OEM sector and is not only threatening to curtail…

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