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Chen Hsong

Company based in Hong Kong

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ5090779
Source-derived summary

Chen Hsong Holdings Limited (Chinese: 震雄集团) is a manufacturer and supplier of plastic injection moulding equipment and systems. The company was established by Dr. Chiang Chen in a small village workshop in Hong Kong in 1958. The following half-century has been a period of growth and expansion both locally and internationally. Today Chen Hsong has a customer base covering more than 80 countries worldwide including China, Taiwan, the United States, Canada, France, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and most Southeast Asian countries.

Product and sector placement

Chen Hsong is primarily a developer, manufacturer and supplier of injection moulding machines, and manufactures a wide variety of equipment with clamping forces ranging from 20 to 6,500 tons, and injection rates between 28.4g and 106 kg capacity. They can provide mold machining and auto-molding systems as well as bespoke solutions for specific applications.

Chen Hsong's core business is the production and operation of injection moulding machinery, precision moulds, hydraulic proportional valves, and servo valves. They also carry out servicing and related parts supply for these products and offer production support, operation of preforms, and equipment leasing of injection moulding machines.

Chen Hsong is a significant supplier of injection moulding equipment.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Chen Hsong” as company based in Hong Kong. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Chen, Hsong and Company.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1958. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Chen, Hsong and Company providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Chen Hsong”, the useful work is to connect “company based in Hong Kong” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 10, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5090779. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1958.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from Chen Hsong” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.