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Article: Increased general purpose range planned as Husky defends its specialities. (Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.)
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- British Plastics & Rubber
- Article date:
- July 1, 1998
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A thorough shake-up of both its machine ranges and the way it builds them is underway at Husky. In the past two or three years it has seen its niche markets - traditionally, thinwall containers and more latterly PET preforms - under attack from more generally-based machine makers having the benefits of bigger production volumes and so lower scale costs and inevitably cheaper machines.
Husky's defence has been to project itself into the same arena as its competitors, which it has done by introducing general purpose moulding machines, and tightening up its manufacturing with an investment this year alone of some $180 million in facilities for manufacturing rather than ...