Japan: Capital investment in China: Brother, Yamazaki, Citizen, Tsugami, DMG
Brother Industries
Invested 900 million yen to expand the Xi’an factory (Xi’an city) and double the machine tool production capacity
Yamazaki Mazak
Gradually increase the capacity of both factories in Yinchuan and Dalian, Ningxia
Citizen Machinery
In the summer of 2021, a new factory starts operation in Shandong Province, doubling the production capacity of automatic lathes.
Tsugami
In 2021 year prospect, new plant establishment of the automatic lathe in Anhui
DMG Mori Seiki:
DMG Mori Seiki will build a new plant in China.
It is scheduled to start operation in January 2025.
The local production capacity has doubled to 1,000 units per year.
DMG Mori Seiki’s new factory:
Scheduled to be constructed in the area adjacent to the Tianjin Plant (Tianjin City).
The Tianjin factory is filled with backlog until February 2022.
Demand for automobiles and semiconductor manufacturing equipment is expected to increase in the future.
DMG Mori Seiki’s Tianjin Factory:
In October 2013, the Tianjin factory started operation.
The horizontal MC “NHC” and the vertical MC “CMX” are being produced.
Also in charge of automation system and assembly such as LPP.
Japan Machine Tool Builders’ Association (Nikkokai):
Order value for China in February 2021
It increased 4.1 times from the same month of the previous year to 30.2 billion yen, increasing for 9 consecutive months.
It has exceeded 30 billion yen for the first time in 34 months since April 2018.
The ratio to the total external demand exceeds 40%.
New switch
Increased production capacity at Tianjin Factory Construction of new factory on site: DMG Mori Seiki Co., Ltd.
https://www.dmgmori.co.jp/corporate/news/pdf/20210414_Tianjin.pdf