Packaging and assembly equipment orders are seen down 6.1% this year, with a further 13.5% drop next year, before a 26.2% rise in 2013.

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Take, for example, the semiconductor market: Here you have a market that has created employment sectors on its own merit, but has also created support markets in software, fabrication equipment, assembly, packaging, test and chemicals, etc.

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Consider instead the lesser-known case of Tetra Laval, the EU's market leader in paper packaging, and its attempt to buy Sidel, a leading manufacturer of equipment that produces plastic bottles.

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In addition, information tech projection Hitachi flat-screen TV has ever produced (President: Kenichi Yoshitake) is the production technology and techniques such as optical plastic substrate packaging technology developed in the manufacture of flat-screen televisions and other video equipment will continue to contract manufacturing products outside the Hitachi Group.

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