subject: China also eager to enter the world's largest market [print this page] "Glass house" Glass Pavilion is the United States "glass as a symbol of the city", and to leave the local glass manufacturers. But not very harmonious, premises used glass imported from China in the new glass industry worldwide. No company in the United States as a whole has the ability to meet the sophisticated architecture of streamlined building specifications, although the 2006 contract for engineering use glass heat Replica Watches bending and laminating technology it was decades ago Torre more local. The premises have thicker glass 360, each up to 13.5 feet, eight feet wide, weighing over 1,300 points. Over the years, the Western concerns are Chinese clothing and furniture manufacturers, such as low-technology exports the threat posed by the enterprise. And glass industry developments, let people see a more formidable challenge has arrived. This is highly technical expertise and sophisticated, capital-intensive enterprises.
In the focus of global demand has been transfer to China's industries such as steel, locomotives, such as turbines, special glass, this phenomenon is nothing new. Those from the domestic market growth benefited fully-funded enterprises, a number of years make Western industrialized countries for decades of technological innovation have opened the gap. The next Toledo "Glass Museum" project is headquartered in China Shenzhen Catic sanxin (Avic Sanxin Co.) To wear jeans, reading the English architectural magazine Vice President Bruce Tsin said, bring to the project because of the company is willing to invest to develop complex glass technology, such as a device to a value of 50 million US dollars. He said that his company is too cautious, they are more willing to take a more standardized processes, want to make fun money.
But China also eager to enter the world's largest market of foreign glass manufacturer to obtain an important technology. Foreign-funded enterprises in China seeks to protect the confidential parts of production and products, often to balance. Headquartered in Ohio with manufacturers of bottles Owens-Illinois Inc. intends to invest in the next few years may be up to several billion U.S. dollars of funds in China to acquire companies or venture. In charge of the global glass sector, Crawford said that China is the world's largest glass market, we feel that there is not enough; how we bring to the Chinese market is the Replica Watches professional technology. But each merger transactions require the approval of the Chinese Government, but it is a well-known fact that the Chinese Government often pressured to foreign investors, asking them to introduce the latest know-how in the protection of proprietary technology has been ineffective.
Owens-Illinois company says it will retain the Torre more suburban lab key trade secrets such as how to produce black glass, how to make wine bottle 30% lighter. Crawford said that the company adopts "basic stuff" you can be successful in China. Glauber subsidiaries in Japan Board Nippon Sheet Glass Co. This month that it will release more than 5.7 million new shares, part of the purpose of the planned expenditures on energy-saving glass production line in Tianjin funding 5,300 million. Apple Inc. In Shanghai's first store opened in July, has a high 41 ft glass built tubular shape, these glasses are made in China. In the glass industry in the early stages of development, the Northwest Ohio to attract investment. In the late 80 's in the 19th century, the region with natural gas, land and labour prices including children as young as eight year old child labour, persuade Eide China Drummond schliebe Edward Drummond Libbe, East Coast area of glass manufacturers moved to local. The United States Government, through the tariff of the European glass block. 1900, Toledo District, about 100 glass producers. In 1925, who founded the schliebe Toledo Museum of art.
Ohio Fen Drayton University University of Findlay industrial historians Cray Baker Quentin Skrabec Said that China is the nineties of the 19th century; in the United States are steel city of Pittsburgh at that time, the city of Akron is rubber, Toledo is the glass city. Libbey Owens Ford Owens Illinois, Owens Corning Co. and the Bay of Libbey Inc, Ohio company in a light bulb, bottles and flat glass production automation, as well as New York's Empire State building Empire State Building supply the window and the commercialization of the fiber glass. For decades, Toledo's main business is the nearby Detroit and rapid development of Tiffany Jewelry automobile industry with glass. The 1920s, Libbey Owens-Ford Libbey-Owens-Ford, formerly the company perfected the lamination process, so that the car from the glass from being crushed. As the 1980s United States automobile manufacturing enterprise market share lost to Japanese auto manufacturers, Toledo glass manufacturing enterprises have also been implicated in a difficult position.
The majority of the world of flat glass from float glass line, this is a complex energy-intensive process, the molten glass liquid on a hot tin bath flattened in the cooling of uninterrupted transfer out hundreds of feet of glass. Float glass factory machines are usually a few years 24 hours of uninterrupted operation. Under the glass magazine (Glass Magazine) data, the United States has 33 float glass line, Toledo has two Japanese Board NOx child company of Pilkington branch operations. At present, China has at least 150 of float glass production line. The 1970s, the Chinese in the glass industry was small, but China's construction industry and the rapid development of automobile industry, and since then the market needs of the local glass has skyrocketed. The basic components include glass silica sand and soda ash, they almost everywhere. Due to the glass, not easy to transport, usually production as close as possible to the market. China glass production accounted for 45% of the world, but its consumption.
China also eager to enter the world's largest market
