A British manufacturer has capitalised on China's demand for space age technology.
作者:admin 2014年04月21日 13:52 点击:2975
China is often described as "the factory of the world," but one British manufacturer is capitalising on the country's demand for imported high-tech goods.
ITP Group, based in Rugby, Warwickshire, has sold what they believe is the world's largest co-ordinate measuring machine to the Beijing Space Authority.
The agency will use the machine, which is the size of a house, to measure its satellites.
Founder and managing director of ITP group, Dick Turpin, says: "Doing business with China is different and the culture is interesting – it's still common for people to smoke in meetings, for instance. There is a reverence for age and experience and a focus on hospitality. I quickly learned that I was better relying on sketches and models than on interpreters.
"Building a machine for Chinese satellite maker might seem a bit unusual, but these large scale multi-function CMMs are suitable for any automotive, aerospace or nautical application where traditional machine tools are too cumbersome or inaccurate. I am proud to say that it has been designed and built entirely in Rugby using local expertise."
Xu Shuxia, who led a recent Chinese delegation to ITP's factory, says: "We know the expertise for creating these machines is in England and that's why we ordered from ITP."
The Chinese space industry turning to Britain's expertise is another sign that British manufacturing isn't dead, and that we can continue to compete on international markets.