WHILE many UK-based manufacturing companies remain either oblivious or are simply ignoring the threat posed by China, Tyne & Wear-based Omega Plastics is determined to meet it head on. Leading the fight back is Gordon Styles, Omega's newly appointed managing director. His experience in the rapid prototyping/toolmaking sector is substantial, having owned and managed businesses both here in the UK - and in China. This inside knowledge of the industrial behemoth threatening UK manufacturing will prove invaluable. 'Having lived in China and managed factories there, I am convinced that by 2015 China will dominate the world politically and economically', he says. 'The Chinese are the fastest learners and most industrious people I have ever encountered. Unless Western governments react extremely fast to these developments by investing huge amounts in skill training and manufacturing, the UK and other ostrich like nations will be bulldozed out of existence. Whilst the US, UK and others are fighting costly diversionary wars, China is building the most significant Empire the Planet has ever seen.
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