EuroWire July 2016

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Expanding sales and service in China

Schmolz + Bickenbach is expanding its sales and services network in China. In January the company began operating a new warehouse for special steel with a first focus on tool steel in Chongqing. The 2,000m² facility is equipped with sawing technologies and high-tech milling machines. Customers benefit from shorter delivery times and tailor-made cutting services for the tool steels from the group’s own production. The product portfolio includes cold-work and high-speed steel grades, steel for plastic moulding and hot work steel from the Schmolz + Bickenbach companies Deutsche Edelstahlwerke and Finkl Steel. With expanded sales and service capacities, Schmolz + Bickenbach International is now also able to meet the needs of local companies in the automotive and plastic moulding industries from a central location in China. The Chongqing-Chengdu area represents between 10 and 15 per cent of the total Chinese tool steel demand. Jack Huan, former sales manager of the

▲ ▲ With the new warehouse for special steel in Chongqing, China, the company is able to meet the needs of local manufacturers of automotive components and plastic moulds

platforms of Schmolz + Bickenbach International in China are located in Dongguan (Guangdong), in Taicang (Jiangsu), in Ninghai (Zhejiang) and in Shanghai. Schmolz + Bickenbach International GmbH – Switzerland Website : www.schmolz-bickenbach.com

Ninghai (Zhejiang) warehouse, has been appointed manager of the new warehouse. He has many years of experience in senior management in the Chinese tool steel business and with his team will provide local customers with the necessary technical support to benefit from the group’s product quality.

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