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Over the last five years, our market share has grown steadily from 5% to 26%. This growth in market share, along with increased global demand has created a need for additional capacity.

To meet this extra capacity, Daikin Industries, Ltd. has established a new company, Daikin Refrigeration (Suzhou) Co., Ltd in Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou, China, which will manufacture the refrigeration units. Established with ¥1.39 billion capital (US$ 12.1 million), mass production is scheduled to begin in October 2008 with a capacity of approximately 40,000 units targeted for 2010.

 With the world’s container box producers concentrated in China, establishing the new 21,000 sq m reefer factory locally moves production closer to  box manufacturers and allows a rapid response to rising demand.  The location will shorten delivery times, enabling us to ship units to Shanghai in as little as 2 days and Qingdao in 5 days - an improvement on shipping times from Japan, which take 10-14 days.

The current Japanese production base in Osaka has an annual manufacturing capacity of 30,000 units. Production will be transferred gradually to the new Chinese company with the combined annual production of both bases supplying world wide markets, set to reach 70,000 units by 2010. In addition, all main parts will be produced in-house, ensuring high quality and shortening lead-time from production to product completion from 17 to 9 days.

For the past ten years Daikin have operated five production plants in China for their air conditioning division and therefore have extensive experience in producing high quality products locally. We will build on this experience to ensure that the reefer products built in China meet the same exacting standards.

In this fast-moving world market, customers rightly expect the highest quality products coupled with fast, efficient delivery and these are two areas where Daikin will continually strive to lead the market.

1-5-73 Hokko-Shiratsu
Konohana-ku
Osaka City
Osaka 554-0041

We realise that some of you haven’t had the opportunity to actually get up close to a Daikin unit and see just how easy it is to use.  We’d like to give you that opportunity and also the chance to meet our service and sales staff face to face.

We started these sessions last year on the West Coast of the USA and they have proved hugely popular.  Our next seminar will be held on 4 April 2008 in Singapore where the following companies will be attending: SeaCastle, Triton, Cronos, TAL, Ge-Seaco, Beacon.  We also have another one scheduled for 16 April 2008, coinciding with the South American Intermodal show in Sao Paolo.  Anyone interested in joining either of these seminars or in finding out about an upcoming seminar near you, please contact the relevant person in your area according to our contacts pages. 

Daikin Touch and Feel Seminars:

In the seminar, engineers will give you an overall introduction to the unit and take you through a practical demonstration to familiarize you with its functions and benefits.  Topics covered will include:

• Features and functions unique to Daikin o How easy it is to set up the machine
• How the machine works o How to change settings - and change set points
• Turning unit on and off o Downloading data from the controller
• Introducing the Daikin controller o How the hot gas defrost system works
• Parts distribution o Fault codes
• Warranties o Technical Support
• Further in-depth training seminars near you

In April, Daikin will once again be hosting a stand at the Sao Paolo Intermodal show in Brazil.  If you plan on visiting, please do drop by our stand to see us at Booth B46.  Details as below. For registration and further information please visit the website below:

Intermodal South America

Transamerica Expo Center
15-17 April 13:00 - 21:00
http://www.intermodal.com.br/

We were also very pleased to have so many of you join us at the Daikin party – this time held at the beautiful canal-side Dylan hotel – making it such a wonderful evening. Our congratulations to those of you who won gifts in our raffle. For any guests that were at the party, and had their photo taken, please get in touch, we will be happy to send you pictures taken by our photographer Fiona Campbell, who was recently short-listed for the Sony World Photographer of the year award.

Born in Manly, Australia, and raised in the USA, Alan now lives in the Netherlands. He says of his background: “In the last 22 years, I have been working in the industry with companies such as Hanjin, Safmarine, Maersk and Hamburg Sud as Marine Surveyor and M&R Manager. This has given me a broad perspective on global affairs and this experience can now be focused towards our customers’ needs and requirements to mutual benefit. However there is always more to learn with every day!”

Philip joined in September and comes from a background in container shipping spanning over 25 years, in which reefer containers have always played a major role. He spent his last 10 years at CP Ships as part of their global container management team.