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Alliance links U.S. design, China manufacturing.(News)(alliances of Smartshape Design Corp. and Linglun Daycrown Case and Bag Industries (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd.)

Publication: Plastics News
Publication Date: 05-FEB-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Byline: Steve Toloken

Long before the "China price'' became a topic of everyday conversation in manufacturing circles, Mike Maczuzak and Kelvin Hou were searching for their own ways to tap into the changes China would bring.

Maczuzak, president of product development firm Smartshape Design Corp. in Cleveland, spoke Mandarin fairly fluently after studying it in college in the early 1980s. A summer in Taiwan and travels in Asia after he launched his company in 1989 convinced him China was required reading.

For Hou, a Taiwanese businessman who studied in the United States, the experiences...

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