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Australian Model Maker Loses Tooling With Close of Factory in China

Posted November 10, 2011 9:00 AM by dstrohl
Pathfinder Tags: Australia Biante China tooling

Biante, makers of high-quality models of new and vintage Australian street and race cars in a number of popular scales, has seen one of its Chinese contract factories declare bankruptcy suddenly, causing the company to lose some of its tooling for the cars.

According to CEO Andrew Whittles, it is unlikely Biante will be able to recover these molds from this Chinese based supplier, so a number of models have been postponed, including:

1/18-scale Cooper T51 and T53s
1/18-scale, 1/43-scale and 1/64-scale V-8 Supercars
1/18-scale Plain White Holden VE Commodore
1/18-scale HSV Maloo Utes (resin)
1/43-scale Holden EHs
1/12-scale Norton Motorcycles

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Re: Australian Model Maker Loses Tooling With Close of Factory in China

11/11/2011 7:09 AM

It sounds highly suspect that Biante can't procure the molds from a company that's going bankrupt. I suspect that these models will soon be available again, just not through Biante.........................it will be a Chinese firm.

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