Machinery Ltd News

Caterpillar Marine Asia Pacific, the regional headquarters of Caterpillar Marine Power Systems in Shanghai, P. R. China, have moved to a new office at Yan’an West Road. This is also the location of the marine group of Lei Shing Hong Machinery Ltd., Caterpillar’s marine dealer for Eastern China. Together both entities now reside in the Caterpillar Marine Center building. Caterpillar Marine Asia Pacific’s regional headquarters are on the 25th floor, the top floor of the building, offering some 900 square metres of office space. Lei Shing Hong Machinery’s marine team is just one floor below.

The splitting of Daewoo Heavy Industries Co., the shipbuilding and machinery unit of South Korea's ailing Daewoo Group, into three firms should boost shareholder value, analysts said. A shareholders meeting earlier in the week approved a plan to split the company into Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co., machinery maker Daewoo Heavy Industries and Machinery Ltd., with Daewoo Heavy Industries Co. taking the remaining operations. Daewoo Heavy is among the 12 Daewoo Group firms put under a creditors-led debt restructuring program in late August last year as the group was teetering on the brink of insolvency. "The split of Daewoo Heavy is a painful but inevitable choice for shareholders," said an analyst at Daishin Securities.

Daewoo Heavy Industries Co. shareholders approved a plan to split the firm into three companies, officials said. The plan will go into effect May 1. Under the plan, the company will split into shipbuilding firm Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co., machinery maker Daewoo Heavy Industries and Machinery Ltd. and Daewoo Heavy Industries Co. for the remaining operations. Daewoo Heavy is among the 12 Daewoo Group firms put under a creditors-led debt restructuring program in late August last year, as the group was teetering on the brink of insolvency.

The splitting of Daewoo Heavy Industries into three firms should boost shareholder value, analysts said. The companies will eventually benefit from the split, analysts said, calling it a "painful but inevitable choice." Analysts said the shipbuilding and machinery units would be reborn as clean companies, while Daewoo Heavy Industries Co. would become a paper company, shouldering most of the company's debts. However, they said, Daewoo Heavy will eventually be liquidated in four or five years once it settles its internal debt issues. A shareholders meeting approved a plan to split the company into Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co, machinery maker Daewoo Heavy Industries and Machinery Ltd., with Daewoo Heavy Industries Co taking the remaining operations.