A provocative question about all-electric injection moulding machines is: are they really better than conventional machines or are they just more expensive? The first such machines were manufactured in the early 1980s by a Japanese company, a world leader in CNC and servo motors. The solution quickly caught on in Japan, with injection moulding machines now accounting for the majority of sales. The US is also an important market, although the rate of penetration is lower than in the US.