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2007-10-30T20:01:00.001-07:00

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2007-10-30T19:59:00.001-07:00

VW Bug Parts Their Only Little Industry

2007-10-27T18:58:00.001-07:00

Maybe it was Herbie that did it. Maybe it was the flower power movement. It seems like everyone wanted to have a VW Bug and they still do. Why else would Volkswagen begin manufacturing the Bug again? There are still millions on the road today and this has lead to an entire industry dedicated to VW Bug parts. This is true in the US and the rest of the world. With the demand for VW Bugs, parts companies have created their own little niche.

And its not just mainstream VW Bug parts that are popular. Owners are customizing their Bugs so specialty VW Bug parts are also the rage. There is also a large market for accessories such as floor mats and car covers.

But VW Bug parts are not the only VW auto parts that are flying off the shelves. VW parts are also needed for other models such as the Jetta and the Passat.

VW auto parts are manufactured to very strict standards. Only the best VW parts get put into Volkswagen models. That being said, many purists insist that authentic VW auto parts cannot be replaced by any other brand if you are to retain the high standards of your Volkswagen car. They are adamant about using only OEM, or original equipment manufacturer VW auto parts. This essentially entails replacing the worn VW parts with another of the exact same brand that the car originally came with. Can you say big money?

Others are firm about the fact that there are other brands that can be used as VW parts. These are termed Aftermarket parts, and are essentially parts that were brought out by other companies after your car model was released. They are auto parts that were not in the original models but are compatible with them. They can be used as replacement VW auto parts as long as they meet the standards of the original VW parts.

Activity is high in both the OEM and Aftermarket sales of VW auto parts, thanks to the continuing popularity of Volkswagen models. Just do a simple search online and youll probably find more dealers for VW parts than you will for the actual cars. It is a thriving business, with room for manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers. There are many companies and individuals who are making a large profit from creating or selling VW auto parts. In fact, it can be argued that the VW parts industry might just be larger than the Volkswagen car industry.

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Tomorrow belongs to Asia's Entrepreneurs?

2007-10-25T18:56:00.001-07:00

I'm looking to buy a rental property in Oxford - near to where I live. Last week I browsed the web sites of six local estate agents, clicked the "contact us" button of all six, asked one of two questions and to be added to their mailing lists.

Within two hours one had called me, discussed my situation and given excellent advice and service. As for the others - nothing, zero, not a dickie bird - after seven days.

Unfortunately that experience is not unusual in Europe or in the US.

It's the small details that delineate excellent service from the rest and for me this is a prime example. Guess which agent is going to get my business.

In Asia that attention to detail and outstanding service simply runs in the blood - and Singapore is simply the world leader. Singapore has a multicultural population of 4.5 million, no natural resources and no history of empire but it has a GNP per head almost identical to that of the European Union and growing. Singapores success has been built on service and delighting the customer - always and in a manner unparalleled anywhere else in the world. From the legendary service and memorable experience of flying Singapore Airlines (now the most profitable airline in the world - is there a connection I wonder?), to the remarkable performance metrics achieved at Changi airport (for example: no waiting at immigration and a matter of honour that your bag gets to the belt before you do), through the delight of staying in a Singapore hotel to the courtesy of taxi drivers and in-store sales staff.

Contrast that with the experience often felt when staying in a hotel in the UK - memorable only for a feeling of having been ripped off; or of riding in a New York taxi where, as often as not, you have to give the directions - that is if youre lucky enough to get a cab driver that speaks English.

Whilst Singapore is currently pre-eminent in matters of service and customer delight I see many other Asian nations aspiring to knock them off that top slot.

This then is the background out of which Asia's entrepreneurs are growing - and growing fast. A background quite simply of living in customers shoes and striving to delight them each and every time you impact with them.

I recently spoke at the "New Wave Leadership" conference in Singapore and had the privilege of sharing the platform with some of the top entrepreneurs, CEOs and business thinkers in the region - people like Ron Sim of OSIM. This is a business, under Ron's guidance, that is achieving fabulous worldwide growth and excellent returns in a market dominated by the big Japanese corporates. Sunny Verghese of Olam International was another memorable speaker - sharing his story of his company's transition from a green-field start-up to a global leader in the supply chain management of agricultural products and food ingredients.

These then are the entrepreneurs to whom the global future belongs. Why? - not just because they have customer service in their blood but they have other unique skills also. For example they seem to have an effortless ability to sell globally that others do not. Whilst we can all bring to mind successful global corporations from many national backgrounds my experience is that there are national "fault lines" that become apparent particularly when you look at smaller middle sized companies and the way they operate.

In Europe, for example, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and the UK are better than most at doing business around the world with successful major corporations like Nokia, Philips and Glaxo Smith Kline respectively but among smaller companies I still find a reluctance to do everything possible to make it easy for their overseas customers to buy from them. All too often, for example, I come across companies that are only prepared to sell in euros or pounds and will not contemplate selling to their overseas customers in their own local currency - no matter how strong it is.

Similarly US companies will certainly "talk the talk" on service and customer focus but all too often it is only skin deep and they fail to "walk the talk". In the US exporting is all too frequently seen as what you do when the home market takes a tumble - and many US companies really do seem to believe in a "one size fits all" mentality and fail to even attempt to understand the local business needs. When Disneyland Paris was in development Disney Corporation executives would not accept the local advice that in France you simply have to include wine on the lunch menu in any restaurant. Only when the business came perilously close to chapter 11 did this and other adjustments to the US model to adapt to local needs get belatedly made.

The Japanese fault line seems also to be an reluctance to adopt and adapt to local conditions - and I've also seen something of a nervousness and an insecurity in Japanese executives when they are outside their own country - mirrored also by middle sized German company executives and this leads them to a lack of perception of local business cultures.

Asian, and particularly Singaporean, business leaders seem immune from such "fault lines" - not only do they normally have the ability to speak both Mandarin Chinese and English giving them immediate access to both the largest and fastest-growing economies of the world - but also they have neither the arrogance to believe their business model is the only one nor the lack of perception when away from their home market of others. They appear to follow the textbook method and learn about the local business culture, put on that coat and then define a strategy for success in that market that is then driven through to success. It is extremely impressive.

When you add to all that the endemic culture in the region of continuous education and professional development plus the support of governments not seen in a majority of countries you have to admit that the rest of the world has a real challenge on its hands unless it shapes up, and shapes up quickly.

Okay, I hear you say, so you are in love with Asia and particularly Singapore, but you must have some areas of concern also

Well, yes I do. It's to do with families and family businesses - which of course is how just about every business starts out in life. I was speaking to the CEO of an advertising agency in Singapore recently and he told me that his very best designer had come to him that morning to say that she was resigning. He, of course, asked why and what he had to do to keep her. She said that she was joining the family business and that her father had told her that it was time and that she could not demure. The business is in window joinery and you do have to wonder if firstly her talents are right for the business and secondly whether she will be fulfilled.

I work with many family businesses, indeed I'm a non-executive director of two, and I firmly believe that whilst family members should be enabled to join the business if they have both a desire and appropriate talent, compulsion is not in anybody's long-term interest - including that of the business. It may simply be a generational phenomena but I believe Asian family businesses need to think about this.

They perhaps need to learn from the mistakes of the past. We have an expression in Britain: "clogs to clogs in three generations". This refers to the footwear that used to be worn by the working man and the fact that many family companies whilst highly successful under the entrepreneurs that conceived them are then destroyed by the next two family generations.

Josiah Wedgwood, of pottery fame, was one such 19th century entrepreneur. He was said to have the flair and creativity of the French, the marketing skills of the Americans, the manufacturing talent of the Japanese and the financial acumen of the Swiss. His was a truly world-class entrepreneurial business that was pre-eminent in its day but within two generations it had all but disappeared. Entrepreneurs by definition are risk-takers and it can often be that subsequent generations are naturally risk averse perhaps arguing that they want to protect what they have inherited. This alone can cause the rapid decline in the fortunes of the business unless the founder has put in place a very strong business culture that can survive the generations.

In this business world we are now in mediocrity is not tolerated - all of us believe as consumers or business buyers that we have an absolute right to buy excellent products and services. It is clear therefore that increasingly the differentiator between the successful business and the rest is not the quality and performance of the basic "product" thats a given - but the quality of the experience the customer has - the "wow" factor.

I see Asian companies get more "wows" than most and the rest of the world needs to take note.

So those five estate agents in Oxford you need to get your act together - and just maybe you could then conquer the world but only if the Asian entrepreneurs let you!

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Cold Foiling

2007-10-23T20:07:00.001-07:00

The cold foiling process, as the name implies, involves foil blocking without the use of heat. Traditional hot stamping foils require heat and pressure to transfer the foil from the carrier film to the substrate being printed, whereas cold foiling does not.

A hot foil generally consists of a polyester carrier, or, more rarely, polypropylene or cellulose film, a release layer, a lacquered layer, the colour which determines the shade of gold or coloured metallic effect, a layer of vacuum deposited aluminium and finally a sized layer to give adhesion to the printed stock. A cold foil has basically the same structure, though cold foiling usually requires a thinner aluminium layer, and the adhesive layer is not always necessary.

The hot stamping foil is applied to the stock by means of a heated die, set at a temperature of between around 100 Celsius to over 200C, depending on the type of stamping press being used and the area being blocked. The heat activates both the adhesive layer and the release layer, and allows transfer of the foil from the carrier film according to the design of the die.

A cold foil, on the other hand, requires no heat and adhesion is achieved by means of a completely different mechanism. In cold foiling the design is not applied by means of a heated die, but is printed in the form a UV activated adhesive. Any printing technique can theoretically be used in cold foiling, though offset litho and flexo are the most common. The run is started, the design applied using UV adhesive from printing plate or blanket, web and cold foil are brought together through a nip then the sandwich passed under UV lamps which cure the adhesive. The cold foil and print webs are separated and rewound. Since the UV has to penetrated the aluminium layer, this is thinner in cold foiling than with hot foiling. A cold foil must have an optical density low enough for it to sufficiently transparent to UV light to allow it to cure the adhesive in the short time available.

So, in a nutshell, cold foiling involves printing an adhesive, nipping the cold foil sandwich to it, curing, then separation, leaving the foil adhered to the stock according the printed design of the adhesive.

Traditional cold foiling is normally reel-to-reel and used in the self-adhesive labelling industry, but recent developments have allowed a viable sheet-fed process to be used.

Whatever method is used, cold foiling has yet to give the high shine of traditional hot foil stamping. The nip, composed of a metal roller and a rubber impression roller, has to spotlessly clean or pinholes will be seen in the finished result. Cold foil is prone to pin-holing and other visual defects. The separation in cold foiling is crucial, as is flatness of the web. Cold foiling is particularly prone to creasing if the webs are not completely flat when brought together,

ADVANTAGES

The advantages of cold foiling are:

1. In-line foiling. The cold foiling unit can be placed in-inline after the printing processes, and if required, between printing processes. In cold foiling, the process has been converted from a slow hot stamping process to a fast printing process using a cold foil. The printer therefore bypasses an additional relatively slow process through using a cold foil rather than a hot foil.

2. Fast set-up. The use of conventional printing methods such as offset allows fast set up of cold foil as against hot foil. There is no packing required in cold foiling to ensure even pressure to the substrate since the cold foil is applied to a wet adhesive.

3. The expense of having metal dies cut is eliminated with cold foil. The cold foiling process becomes more attractive for short runs, where previously dies costs could prohibit this.

4. Since we are using a printing process, there are fewer registration problems with cold foiling. The hot foil process frequently present problems in registration which require time to put right.

DISADVANTAGES

1. Cold foil print quality is not as good as that from hot foil. The brightness is generally lacking and pinholes are frequently a problem.

2. Cold foiling requires complete cleanliness if surface defects are to be kept to a minimum, and the hardness, cleanliness, alignment and pressure of the nip roller is extremely important.

3. The energy provided by the UV lamps must be properly maintained or the cold foil will not adhere to the partially cured adhesive. In cold foiling, the transmission of the UV energy through the foil is critical. Problems can be experienced with deep cold foil colours which act as UV absorbers, and foiling to black and deep blue substrates can be difficult in cold foiling since these colours contain pigments which act as UV absorbers and thus leaves less energy to cure the adhesive. For these reasons many suppliers do not offer cold foil in deep shades.

All in all, though, cold foiling is growing in popularity due to the increased profitability it gives, especially in areas where the very highest quality of foiling is not necessary. The newer offset cold foiling techniques are rapidly gaining ground on the quality of traditional hot foils, which is why most hot stamping foil manufacturers now include cold foil in their portfolio.

Copyright 2006 Peter Nisbet

Peter Nisbet has been involved in the development and manufacture of both hot and cold foil systems for many years, and currently offers a range of foils on his website http://www.hot-stamping-foil.com where he gives tips and hints on foil stamping in general.Buy Cheap Car Insurance
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