Plastics News Show Daily - April 4, 2012 - (Page 21)

PLASTICS NEWS, April 4, 2012 21 Taipei Plas expected to see increases New trade agreement, rising machinery exports bolster Taiwan’s growth By Steve Toloken PLASTICS NEWS STAFF ORLANDO, FLA. – Organizers of Taiwan’s largest plastics show, Taipei Plas, expect this year’s edition to see an increase in visitors and exhibitors, pushed by the island’s rising machinery exports and a new trade agreement with mainland China. The show, which will take place Sept. 21-25 in Taipei, is expected to have 450 exhibiting companies and 17,000 visitors, compared with 419 exhibiting companies and 15,100 visitors in 2010, the last time it was held, Taipei Plas officials said at an April 2 news conference at the NPE show in Orlando. The growth is being pushed both by rising plastics and rubber machinery exports – up 14.4 percent in 2011 to $1.33 billion – and by the new Economic Cooperation and Framework Agree- ment between mainland China and Taiwan, said Gin-Huey Yang, a publicity manager for the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (Booth 8790), which operates Taipei Plas. The ECFA will eliminate tariffs on plastics and rubber machinery exports (and 106 other categories of goods) between Taiwan and China in 2013, Yang said. The agreement took effect Jan. 1, 2011. Taiwan, a small island of about 23 million people, has an outsized plastics machinery industry. Its plastics and rubber machinery sector is the world’s fifth-largest, and is the fourthlargest exporter, according to Taipei Plas officials. But some machinery sectors are facing challenges. Another speaker at the press conference said Taiwan’s manufacturers of injection molding equipment saw their exports drop slightly last year as China and India cooled. Exports of Taiwanese-made molding presses dropped from $883 million in 2010 to $841 million last year, mainly because the Chinese and Indian economies slowed down in the last three months of the year, said Aron Chao, director of international sales for Asian Plastic Machinery Co. Ltd., based in Taoyuan, Taiwan. China, Southeast Asia and India together account for more than half of Taiwanese injection press exports, he said. ‘’We are in a very tough situation in the world, especially for injection molding machines,’’ Chao said. ‘’I think the major issue for Taiwan is that China and India went down.’’ ‘’It’s still not so good,’’ he said in an interview after his presentation. ‘’We do hope that India will get better after the second quarter. It seems now we see a little light.’’ APM is a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based press maker Chen Hsong Group, and has been building injection machines in Taiwan for 30 years. Ying Sun promoted within PN PLASTICS NEWS REPORT The most ambitious project in the history of dehumidification. AKRON, OHIO – Nina Ying Sun has been named managing editor of Plastics News China, which includes two related digital products — the “PN China eWeekly” email newsletter, and the related website at www.pnchina.com. Both are offered in English and simplified Chinese. Sun, who works from Columbus, Ohio, for the Akron-based publication, retains her existing duties as an assistant managing editor for Plastics News. “This change helps to better reflect the key role Nina has played since day one on our Sun various China products,” said Robert Grace, associate publisher and editorial director. Sun joined Plastics News as a reporter and Asia specialist in mid-2005, just as PN was launching its China e-newsletter and website. She was promoted to assistant ME for the newspaper in 2008. Sun has dual master’s degrees in journalism and international affairs from Ohio University. The Chinese native previously earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism, with a minor in economics, from Beijing’s Renmin University of China. She has worked as a reporter for Hong Kong’s Chinese-language newspaper Ta Kung Pao and was a front-page editor of the overseas edition of People’s Daily, China’s largest newspaper. Drying Revolution designed by Moretto Hall D Stand 6485 MORETTO S.p.A. Via dell’Artigianato 3 35010 Massanzago (PD) ITALY Tel. +39 049 93 96 711 Fax +39 049 93 96 710 www.moretto.com  http://www.pnchina.com http://www.moretto.com http://www.moretto.com

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