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machinery

  1. items of capital such as a lathe or ROBOT welder which are used in production. See PLANT, EQUIPMENT, CAPITAL STOCK, FIXED ASSET.
  2. procedures for the conduct of negotiations between trade unions and management and the settlement of disputes. See PROCEDURAL AGREEMENT, GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE, DISPUTES PROCEDURE.
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The new company will locate its head office in Nishi-ku, Hiroshima Prefecture, and will mainly handle marketing, design, manufacturing, installation and after-sale services for machineries such as material handling systems, rubber & tire machinery, upstream equipment in iron-making and chemical industry-use machinery.
Today machinery manufacturers produce textile machineries at competitive prices, and sophisticated machines of higher speed and production capacity.
Increasing investments in textile production in the Asian regions fuel the market for textile machineries. Asian countries such as India, China, and Pakistan foresee favorable market for textile machinery due to the shifting of manufacturing operations from EU and US to a mass cost benefits.