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trade fair CIFC had erected a large scored 68%. Two key recommendations centred which Western buyers could time and cost
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marquee between the office building on achieving consistent quality of wire and economically develop initial relationships with
and Phase 1 site, inviting an array of dignities controlling heat treatment as prerequisites to potential Chinese vendors would have made a
from associations and local government. On the ensuring acceptable final product quality. It was lot of sense. Now, though, most volume buyers
opening day a series of presentations were also argued that investment in more automated know their way around China. Personal audit of
made to an audience, we estimated at around production would benefit both productivity and factories and, just as important, personal
200. These included several from representatives quality. Emphasis was placed on the importance meetings and negotiations with factory principals
of steel companies, all of whom, it seemed, of good quality dies and tooling. In concluding are core to developing business.
studiously focused on developing technologies the speaker also stressed that factories should Perhaps most critically of all, the impact of
and efficiencies rather than current cost inflation, take ‘personal responsibility’ for ensuring the raw material inflation and the potential impact
assuring fastener producers of their support in achievement of quality standards rather than of antidumping measures from Europe and the
moving up the added-value spectrum. The being ‘forced’ to do so by the buyer. US could very easily overtake CIFC’s vision.
imperative of improving the quality of exported The ‘trade fair’, which ran alongside and after We will continue to monitor and report on
fasteners was key to several other speakers, the symposium was a table-top format, with developments in Haiyan.
notably one from a standards and quality perhaps 250 companies participating. Visitors
Dignitaries and speakers at the Symposium
assurance organisation, which carries out were almost entirely Chinese – we counted no
included:
inspections of Chinese factories. There was an more than ten western visitors during the day
• Sun Xiongwei, deputy county chief, Haiyan
overt recognition of the need to improve product we attended the event.
People’s Government,
consistency and for factories to move up the
value spectrum. This included telling the Overview
• Yao Shenliang, vice president, Haiyan People’s
audience that the average per ton value of There is no doubt that CIFC is a serious and
Government,
fasteners exported from China was around substantial project with apparently strong
• Shen Jiahua, chairman, Haiyan Industrial
US$1138 compared to Taiwan averaging financial backing and the support of many
Fasteners Institute of China
US$2700 and the highest level in the world fastener related organisations in the area and
• Xu Deren, administrative vice chairman,
market, almost certainly a reference to Japan, nationally. CCPIT is very energetic in trying to
Haiyan Industrial Fasteners Institute of China
being seven times higher than that of China. raise its international profile and gain • Yin Yefen, vice chairman, Haiyan Industrial
The speaker also discussed an exercise carried commitment from fastener organisations and Fasteners Institute of China
out with one factory, at which a range of 107 companies worldwide.
• Shen Jianzhen , director, Haiyan Foreign Trade
fastener items was tested. The results, he said, Geographically, there remains in our mind a
& Economic Cooperation Bureau
revealed quality inconsistencies across the question mark. Certainly Haiyan has gained in
• Zhu Haihong, director, Haiyan Economic &
different items. Annual inspection of fastener importance with the opening of the Hungzhou
Trade Bureau
companies, however, did show significant Bay bridge but it is a small town by Chinese
• Yang Yongchang, president, Huaxi Iron & Steel
improvement in quality. Only 59% of those standards, with limited visitor resources. Certainly
Group Co., Ltd
inspected in 2004 achieved a satisfactory level. it is not, right now, an international or even a
In 2005 the proportion improved radically to national centre – in contrast to say the provincial
• Yang Qishan, sales manager, Maanshan Iron
70%, improving again to 78% by 2007. The capital of Hungzhou or Shanghai itself. This
& Steel Group Co., Ltd
speaker emphasised that the sample was taken would seem to represent a significant deterrent
• Lu Lihua, sales director, Sha-Gang Iron & Steel
across all sizes of factories and that larger to the involvement of overseas companies,
Group Co., Ltd
factories scored consistently higher on the reflected in the limited international participation
• Chen Lan, director, Jiaxing Foreign Trade &
quality scale than their smaller counterparts. at the event this April.
Economic Bureau
He also noted that, in the latest round of There also have to be a whole series of • Di Minjie, deputy secretary, China General
inspections, the provinces around Shanghai questions about the function and role of CIFC. Machine Components Industry Association
scored close to 100%, whereas Guangdong Ten, maybe even five, years ago a centre at
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