This is very true, investment in manufacturing in this country is virtually nil, but the Chinese are spending big time. They will spend whatever is necessaery to get the right machine to do the job. Last week I was at a company who manufacture top quality measuring equipment, serious kit (tens of thousands per machine). Their main market is China. I was talking recently to someone in CAD/CAM software, specialised software for mould tools, and they have more users in China than anywhere else (again, £10K plus per seat stuff). We still have a core of high quality, small volume manufacturing -but mass production in this country is dead. Due to all sorts of global economic reasons, and succsessive governments trying to kill it
-somewhat ironicaly Labour seem to be trying even harder than the last lot......must stop now, I feel a terrible rant coming on
Regards
Kevin