Bosch improves diesel injectors factory in China

Although diesel is not supported by the Chinese government as a "green" technology, Bosch is hoping to spread some of the joy Europeans have driving new-generation diesels there. The company has upgraded a facility in China to manufacture diesel common rail systems for use in passenger vehicles, starting next November. The facility is run by Bosch Automotive Diesel Systems, a Bosch subsidiary based in the eastern China city of Wuxi. The factory currently produces about 100,000 units per year, but this will be boosted to 1.4 million units by 2010. Bosch common rail technology is installed in most European diesel engines.
[Source: Automotive News (subs. req'd)]
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Tim 10:08AM (10/31/2008)
Why is the US not getting these jobs?
Too much gov't regulation and high corporate taxes drives up the cost to manufacture in the US so the jobs go abroad.
Marxist central planning does NOT work!
Hear THAT McCain and Obama?
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GoodCheer 1:14PM (10/31/2008)
Yeah, damn that OSHA!
... and minimum wage!
... and environmental protections!
They're ruining EVERYTHING!
Brn 10:49AM (10/31/2008)
"Why is the US not getting these jobs?"
If they did that, how would China steal it?
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tekd 2:58AM (11/03/2008)
Yeah how could China steal something that was never the United States' to begin with.
Seriously, are you all retarded or something? Bosch wants to sell diesels to the Chinese car market, why would they purposely build the injectors in the United States with more expensive labor, then ship them halfway around the world to sell in a country where very few people make nearly enough money to pay for stuff made with American labor? If you make $1 an hour it's a lot easier to afford injectors made by someone else who makes $1 an hour, and not an insanely expensive imported diesel injector which is costlier because the labor was $30 an hour, and they had to waste tons of fuel to ship it 10000 miles to you, and then there were tariffs from importation.
Stop being retarded already, you don't sell to other countries by whining all the time about why European countries don't come make stuff here to sell to China. You give them no reason to do so. If you want to sell stuff to other countries make stuff here that they can't make, and export that stuff. The Chinese are more than happy to buy Boeing jets, but they have no reason to buy American-made diesel injectors.
tekd 3:10AM (11/03/2008)
Oh and if you really want the Chinese to import American diesel injectors then you need to stop whining about this crap on the internet and go engineer a better diesel injector rail and build it in the US. Oddly enough most of the people whining about our lost jobs don't actually try to innovate so that American goods are so much better that people everywhere will want to import them. Whining isn't going to fix things, you're not magically going to become globally competitive by whining. Go learn how to engineer stuff and go make some really advanced stuff that the Chinese can't make. Leverage the fact that you have far more resources for cutting edge technology than your Chinese counterpart would.
The Chinese could also sit around whining about how the clothing industry often manufactures stuff in countries with lower incomes, but they either innovate to save money with more advanced manufacturing, or they find other stuff to make money with and forget about clothing. Look on your clothing labels and you'll often find India, or Bangladesh, or Sri Lanka, or even poorer countries as the place of manufacture. Those laborers make probably 1/10th as much as Chinese laborers, but China still makes most of the stuff out there because those countries don't have the technology to make much more than clothes.
So innovate, or no amount of whining is going to stop you from becoming obsolete.
Brn 11:23AM (11/03/2008)
Normally I wouldn't bother to respond to someone that uses repeated name calling as their primary tactic, but I feel the need to point something out to you.
The quote "Why is the US not getting these jobs?" was not made by me. You're attacking the wrong person.
vw junky 10:58AM (10/31/2008)
Euro company updating a existing plant. NOt a factory going to china from the US, at least not this time ;)
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