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MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY looking at them as discrete athan cities. We have a higher level of cooperation within the region, such as transferring resources from one city to another within Asia. It makes it easier in terms of marketing strategy.” According to Vineet Seth, Delcam’s managing director for India and Middle East, although there are numerous significant differences, Asian countries are all trying to excel and improve from current levels. “If you look at a mature economy like Singapore, together with the other countries like Malaysia and Thailand, they were all Tiger economies of the 1990s. “For India, a tremendously diverse country, it has a lot more room to grow with a lot of potential. As for the Middle East, it is almost a brand new economy. With dependence on oil, there was not much emphasis on manufacturing 20 years ago. But now, all these countries they were very big in the oil drilling industry. Today, many Middle East countries, such as UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Yemen, realise that manufacturing is the way forward. “Initially, CAM was more for woodwork, furniture and artwork, but now it is more for white goods, electrical and customized automotive parts. For example, we have an ambulance manufacturer in the Middle East who likes to customized their parts and build ambulances for the region. “For me, the spectrum of countries is a diverse array of economies, and each is different in development and needs, but all accept the fact that if you’re well-versed in technology and hard-working, you will be wellaccepted,” says Seth. “And when you look at a developed economy like Singapore, they’re trying to upscale, doing things in a different way. They’re thinking of how to change the games, how to bring the timelines down, and excel on an existing process. www.asiamanufacturingnewstoday.com
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“For India, there are a few challenges. There are areas in India that are very good at the way they deploy technology, and there are areas that don’t. Their challenge is to improve those less developed areas and bring those areas up to the same level as the rest of the country,” he notes. Commenting on the situation in Southeast Asia, Sandy Moffatt said: “There are distinctly different countries, yet as a whole, it is a very strong region. Thailand has seen immense growth and is enjoying an industrial boom that is the highest in this region at the moment. As a consequence, there has been an immense boost to sales of our products.” “Indonesia, the fifth largest country in the world (by population), has seen steady growth in the last four to five years. So Indonesia is also very strong, with a lot of potential that could become a much more important industrial market later. Large market size, well-educated, hardworking and enterprising, that’s a formula for success that we see in Indonesia.
“Vietnam is an interesting market where a lot of the red tape is gone, where we might see huge growth in another three to four years. Cambodia and Laos, beside Vietnam, are also catching up, although they are smaller markets. The Philippines is not growing at the same degree as the countries I just mentioned, but still growing nonetheless. “Singapore has a lot of large MNCs headquartered there, with which we have some business with. There are also quite a few smaller manufacturing plants which we also do business with. “So on the whole, the Southeast Asia region has been a good place to grow our products, with about 10-20 percent growth year-on-year on average in the region.“ ”For all markets in Asia, we have our targets that we need to meet,” adds K H Chai, Delcam business development manager for South East Asian Division. “But within the region there are different markets with different targets. For example, tool making, the mould and die manufacturing for automotive is still very strong in