http://www.steellong.com.cn/Steellong Wire Cloth Co., Ltd - RainbowSoft Studio Z-Blog 1.8 Arwen Build 81206en-ukCopyright Steellong Your WebSite. Some Rights Reserved.Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:09:57 +0800sales@steellong.cn (steellong)http://www.steellong.com.cn/post/497.htmlTue, 15 Sep 2009 02:31:09 +0800http://www.steellong.com.cn/post/497.htmlAnping Wire Mesh Origin and Development:
We hope to draw your attention to the contents emphasized in bold forms as we consider these information as the most important links.
According to the written historical record of Anping County, Anping Wire Mesh (Screen) started from XiaoHongZhi Period of Ming Dynasty. At that time, as described in the record, there were silk screen weavers in Tangbei village of Huangcheng Town and they had business friend with Asian merchants.
In 1918: Xu Laoshan, born in Xiangguan village of Anping, introduced production technology of metal wire mesh from Japan, and set up the first Wire Mesh plant in Anping.
In 1928: Anping City saw the birth of Mingsheng, Yongan, Tiansheng, Gaisheng and other copper Wire Mesh plants.

In 1937: The copper wire mesh plants were all ended in destruction because of the Japanese invasion of China.
In 1949: After the foundation of New China, Anping set up the State-Owned Anping County Wire Drawing Plant and four wire mesh (screen) making plants named separately as Chengguan, Youzi, Hezhuang and Jiaoqiu base on the collective-owned management.
In 1966: With the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, there was a sharp drop in production scale of the screen.
After The Third Plenary Session of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Anping Wire Mesh Industry started to recover.
In 1984: "People's Daily" and "CCTV" reported the development of Anping Wire Mesh (Screen).
In 1985: "1511 Loom" was successfully transformed: A signal that hence wire mesh production changed from traditional handicrafts to mechanical production.
In 1987: Screen (or wire mesh) development was listed into the national development plan. The first wire mesh products purchase meeting was successfully held at the same year.

In 1990: The relevant state ministries and commissions listed Anping as key export base of wire mesh products.
In 1991: The first enterprise with foreign investment was set up in Anping with the successful introduction of the Japanese shuttle-less arrow loom.
In 1996: Anping saw the construction of Grand Wire Mesh World, a project approved by the State Development Planning Commission.
In 1999: Anping was awarded the honorary title of Wire Mesh Native Land of China by China Hardware Products Association.
In 2000: The Business Directory of Anping Wire Mesh Enterprises was published.
In 2001: The First China (Anping) International Wire Mesh Fair was successfully held in Anping. Anping was awarded the title of Wire Mesh Production Base Area.
In 2001: The book “Anping County Wire Mesh Illustration Selection” was published.
In 2002: The construction of the project Hebei * Anping Wire Mesh Industrial Park began.

From 2002 to 2007: The second to the seventh China (Anping) Wire Mesh Fair was held in Anping every year. Attracting more and more domestic and foreign companies.
In 2008: The Eighth Wire Mesh Fair will be held from Sep.21 to Sep.23. ]]>An Pinghttp://www.steellong.com.cn/post/497.html#commenthttp://www.steellong.com.cn/http://www.steellong.com.cn/feed.asp?cmt=497http://www.steellong.com.cn/cmd.asp?act=tb&id=497&key=0804eb1asales@steellong.cn (steellong)http://www.steellong.com.cn/post/494.htmlTue, 15 Sep 2009 00:41:02 +0800http://www.steellong.com.cn/post/494.htmlAnping District (traditional Chinese: 安平區; pinyin: ĀnpíngQū; Wade-Giles: An-p'ing Ch'ü; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: An-pêng-khu) is a district of Tainan City. The history of Anping dates back to the 17th century, when Dutch East India Company occupied Tayuan/Tayoan/Tayouan/Tayowan (Chinese characters: 大灣/台員/大員/台圓/大圓/台窩灣, referring to the Sirayan origin of the modern name Taiwan). In the period of the Japanese occupation, the history of trade between China and Japan unfolded at Anping.

Anping was originally a small island separated from the mainland of Tainan until the 19th century. Due to the ocean current, the small lagoon between Anping island and Tainan was silted up and gradually disappeared, and Anping became a part of Tainan.
]]>An Pinghttp://www.steellong.com.cn/post/494.html#commenthttp://www.steellong.com.cn/http://www.steellong.com.cn/feed.asp?cmt=494http://www.steellong.com.cn/cmd.asp?act=tb&id=494&key=66e75a20sales@steellong.cn (steellong)http://www.steellong.com.cn/post/493.htmlTue, 15 Sep 2009 00:32:46 +0800http://www.steellong.com.cn/post/493.htmlAnping Wire Mesh Factory is a privately owned productive enterprise in Anping County, Hebei Province of North China. Established in 1981, Anping Wire Mesh Factory has a long tradition in the manufacture and supply of quality wire mesh machine and wire mesh products for a wide range of end uses. We have excellent equipments, perfect craftsmanship, scientific inspection skill. Every product is strictly inspected according to its international standard. We sincerely hope to establish good and long business relationship with all friends. May our cooperation bring you happiness and benefit. ]]>An Pinghttp://www.steellong.com.cn/post/493.html#commenthttp://www.steellong.com.cn/http://www.steellong.com.cn/feed.asp?cmt=493http://www.steellong.com.cn/cmd.asp?act=tb&id=493&key=03a2f665sales@steellong.cn (steellong)http://www.steellong.com.cn/post/270.htmlThu, 06 Aug 2009 07:51:27 +0800http://www.steellong.com.cn/post/270.htmlwire netting and wire mesh

Article on how China's small steel producers are moving the country forward.

By David Lindley
President, EXIM LLC

Checking my email early one morning, I see correspondence from a friend in Florida. He is building a new organic produce operation and needs literally several football size fields' worth of steel wire grid mesh to be laid out for planting season later this summer.He is making rows of miniature greenhouses, but on an industrial farming scale. He's contacted several places on his own here in China, but he's not getting anywhere fast enough because it all has to be delivered by July. We talk for a while and make a plan to get his factories to finish their quotes and ramp up their production. Then it's time for me to take to the road.

Situated three hours drive south east of Beijing, on the coast of Hebei province, sits An Ping. Leaving Beijing, you drive past the glittering Olympic structures and acres of call centers, office buildings and hi-rise apartments. The last major billboard you see is one where Jackie Chan is inviting you to live in a new residential subdivision on the outskirts of Beijing. An Ping, though, is beyond the glossy reach of a 20-foot-tall Jackie Chan, and way beyond the charms of consumer-friendly Beijing. More than just few hours' drive deep the into flat, wheat fields of the country side, a visit to An Ping is to take a journey into the periphery of modern global capitalism.

It is an example of what happens when you mix the extreme dimensions of late nineteenth century steel production techniques with twenty-first-century global communications and a seemingly infinite pool of low-cost labor.

Steel wire and wire products have been at the forefront of global capitalism since their inception. Technical improvements in the United States during the 1800's made it possible to draw long strands of strong, consistent, high-quality wire that could be woven and twisted. Enough of that wire was produced to circle the globe countless times and eventually led to the series of long and bloody range wars that were fought over the right to fence property with what became known as barbed wire. The eventual succession of the American west to "parceling" land by barbed wire fence forever changed the culture and land management practices in the United States.

Easy rail transportation and 30 years of unabated demand for steel wire products also gave rise to some America's biggest industrial monoliths of the era where names like Carnegie and Mellon were upheld across the land as giants of industry and wealth.

The world has since moved on, but the need for wire and wire products remains as strong as ever. And while automation, robotic welding and other techniques have to come to industry, many of the techniques and practices for working with wire go back well over a hundred years. Still, the more things change, the more they remain the same: Much of industrial processes used to make wire fence and wire mesh continue to be labor intensive work.

At first glance, An Ping appears to be a chaotic series of roads, all filled the same 500 square meter workshop yards, a scene that is repeated again and again. Each shop has crews of men bent over welding grids of wire. If you drive in any direction, you're sure to pass hundreds of work yard shops like this while making your way out of town. If you drive west, you pass hundreds of shops until you get out of town.

But what appears as chaotic and incomprehensible on the ground is really a very efficient production network of individual job shops that is organized, in viral terms, by cell phones, text messages and the Internet. Into this network, amorphous cadres of sourcing agents for global and domestic sales pour their demands for steel wire and mesh work. This is all supported by a transportation infrastructure and steel mill technology built during the last era of fully state-controlled economic planning.

Hebei was the recipient of heavy industrial investment in the 1960's and 70's. While many of those steel mills are now considered inefficient, dirty and not up to world standard, they are very capable of producing large quantities of wire, the composition and basic requirements of which have been the same for about 200 years. In the case of An Ping, sometimes you don't need the world's best equipment to be the world's largest supplier.

But unlike the old days in America and China of big steel being organized around a single, corporate or state-owned entity, or so-called "factory town," An Ping is a network of thousands of job shops, distributors and suppliers, all of whom scale up or down to fit whatever job is at hand. Common scenario: An order comes in, 20 job shops go to work, another order comes, another 30 start, the order changes and five lose their chance to work without a doubt, the Internet has added a wild card, an almost win-the-lottery mentality, to the overall work and operations of any given shop. Now, a big order can come to any shop with a Web site.

No longer is it just the larger shops that can parcel out work because of their sales force and ability to sponsor a travel budget or inventory steel. The global lottery is there for anyone who gets the call, who can respond to the inquiry and who can organize and finance the work and material orders. In other words, today's small job shop may be just one email away from becoming a big player. It's an enticing prospect for newcomers and an almost intoxicating happening for the very few that can get a lucky break of a sizable order.

The new-found prosperity of An Ping has been hard-earned. Seeing workers welding beneath an umbrella in the pouring rain is not uncommon. For most workers, learning English and owning a computer seem impossible dreams for the present. Though far better than it was before the work came, life still remains hard in An Ping, and every worker's tanned face shows a lifetime of physical toil. But most prefer it to the farm, and there is, for the first time ever, a chance for disposable income to save for a child's education, to visit relatives in another city, or maybe even to own a motorcycle or, someday, a car.

But even An Ping, which has gone from nothing to a world production center is less than a decade, has found there is a limit to the sky. Last year, for example, when metal prices in China spiked 30 percent above the world market, work came to a halt. More competition is coming, too. Other depressed industrial areas in northern China have noted An Ping's success and have started their own wire production areas. Likewise, the RMB has gone up in value, diesel fuel costs more for shipping and Indian wire is finding its way to market as well. In large-scale projects, where labor costs less (relative to material costs), An Ping still finds fierce price competition from very efficient American and European producers, as was the case for my American farming client who bought wire both in China and America.

With its fragile beginning and hard fought emergence, An Ping sits at the very forefront of what's happening in the countryside of China's economic revolution. How An Ping finds a way to hold its few gains and keep moving forward to increase the skill and labor value of its people will be the story of non-urban China's development in the coming decades.

">wire netting and wire mesh
Sourcing Stories: An Ping is a trip back in time and a vision of the future

Article on how China's small steel producers are moving the country forward.

By David Lindley
President, EXIM LLC

Checking my email early one morning, I see correspondence from a friend in Florida. He is building a new organic produce operation and needs literally several football size fields' worth of steel wire grid mesh to be laid out for planting season later this summer.He is making rows of miniature greenhouses, but on an industrial farming scale. He's contacted several places on his own here in China, but he's not getting anywhere fast enough because it all has to be delivered by July. We talk for a while and make a plan to get his factories to finish their quotes and ramp up their production. Then it's time for me to take to the road.

Situated three hours drive south east of Beijing, on the coast of Hebei province, sits An Ping. Leaving Beijing, you drive past the glittering Olympic structures and acres of call centers, office buildings and hi-rise apartments. The last major billboard you see is one where Jackie Chan is inviting you to live in a new residential subdivision on the outskirts of Beijing. An Ping, though, is beyond the glossy reach of a 20-foot-tall Jackie Chan, and way beyond the charms of consumer-friendly Beijing. More than just few hours' drive deep the into flat, wheat fields of the country side, a visit to An Ping is to take a journey into the periphery of modern global capitalism.

It is an example of what happens when you mix the extreme dimensions of late nineteenth century steel production techniques with twenty-first-century global communications and a seemingly infinite pool of low-cost labor.

Steel wire and wire products have been at the forefront of global capitalism since their inception. Technical improvements in the United States during the 1800's made it possible to draw long strands of strong, consistent, high-quality wire that could be woven and twisted. Enough of that wire was produced to circle the globe countless times and eventually led to the series of long and bloody range wars that were fought over the right to fence property with what became known as barbed wire. The eventual succession of the American west to "parceling" land by barbed wire fence forever changed the culture and land management practices in the United States.

Easy rail transportation and 30 years of unabated demand for steel wire products also gave rise to some America's biggest industrial monoliths of the era where names like Carnegie and Mellon were upheld across the land as giants of industry and wealth.

The world has since moved on, but the need for wire and wire products remains as strong as ever. And while automation, robotic welding and other techniques have to come to industry, many of the techniques and practices for working with wire go back well over a hundred years. Still, the more things change, the more they remain the same: Much of industrial processes used to make wire fence and wire mesh continue to be labor intensive work.

At first glance, An Ping appears to be a chaotic series of roads, all filled the same 500 square meter workshop yards, a scene that is repeated again and again. Each shop has crews of men bent over welding grids of wire. If you drive in any direction, you're sure to pass hundreds of work yard shops like this while making your way out of town. If you drive west, you pass hundreds of shops until you get out of town.

But what appears as chaotic and incomprehensible on the ground is really a very efficient production network of individual job shops that is organized, in viral terms, by cell phones, text messages and the Internet. Into this network, amorphous cadres of sourcing agents for global and domestic sales pour their demands for steel wire and mesh work. This is all supported by a transportation infrastructure and steel mill technology built during the last era of fully state-controlled economic planning.

Hebei was the recipient of heavy industrial investment in the 1960's and 70's. While many of those steel mills are now considered inefficient, dirty and not up to world standard, they are very capable of producing large quantities of wire, the composition and basic requirements of which have been the same for about 200 years. In the case of An Ping, sometimes you don't need the world's best equipment to be the world's largest supplier.

But unlike the old days in America and China of big steel being organized around a single, corporate or state-owned entity, or so-called "factory town," An Ping is a network of thousands of job shops, distributors and suppliers, all of whom scale up or down to fit whatever job is at hand. Common scenario: An order comes in, 20 job shops go to work, another order comes, another 30 start, the order changes and five lose their chance to work without a doubt, the Internet has added a wild card, an almost win-the-lottery mentality, to the overall work and operations of any given shop. Now, a big order can come to any shop with a Web site.

No longer is it just the larger shops that can parcel out work because of their sales force and ability to sponsor a travel budget or inventory steel. The global lottery is there for anyone who gets the call, who can respond to the inquiry and who can organize and finance the work and material orders. In other words, today's small job shop may be just one email away from becoming a big player. It's an enticing prospect for newcomers and an almost intoxicating happening for the very few that can get a lucky break of a sizable order.

The new-found prosperity of An Ping has been hard-earned. Seeing workers welding beneath an umbrella in the pouring rain is not uncommon. For most workers, learning English and owning a computer seem impossible dreams for the present. Though far better than it was before the work came, life still remains hard in An Ping, and every worker's tanned face shows a lifetime of physical toil. But most prefer it to the farm, and there is, for the first time ever, a chance for disposable income to save for a child's education, to visit relatives in another city, or maybe even to own a motorcycle or, someday, a car.

But even An Ping, which has gone from nothing to a world production center is less than a decade, has found there is a limit to the sky. Last year, for example, when metal prices in China spiked 30 percent above the world market, work came to a halt. More competition is coming, too. Other depressed industrial areas in northern China have noted An Ping's success and have started their own wire production areas. Likewise, the RMB has gone up in value, diesel fuel costs more for shipping and Indian wire is finding its way to market as well. In large-scale projects, where labor costs less (relative to material costs), An Ping still finds fierce price competition from very efficient American and European producers, as was the case for my American farming client who bought wire both in China and America.

With its fragile beginning and hard fought emergence, An Ping sits at the very forefront of what's happening in the countryside of China's economic revolution. How An Ping finds a way to hold its few gains and keep moving forward to increase the skill and labor value of its people will be the story of non-urban China's development in the coming decades.

]]>An Pinghttp://www.steellong.com.cn/post/270.html#commenthttp://www.steellong.com.cn/http://www.steellong.com.cn/feed.asp?cmt=270http://www.steellong.com.cn/cmd.asp?act=tb&id=270&key=ae5ae1c4sales@steellong.cn (steellong)http://www.steellong.com.cn/post/252.htmlThu, 06 Aug 2009 03:44:43 +0800http://www.steellong.com.cn/post/252.html
Switching names to “Taiwan City,” “Imperial Castle,” and, finally, “Anping Fort” (安平古堡) after the Taiwan Retrocession in 1894, this nostalgic piece of colonial history (NT$50 admission fee for adults) should be jotted down on all must-see Taiwan destination lists.

A noodle vendor serving up spicy bowls on the sidewalk outside agrees. “See it now,” he said in Taiwanese. “Because you never know when it will change hands again.”

My travel partner and I asked him to clarify this statement.

“It was taken by the Dutch and expanded upon by them many, many years ago,” he continued. “And the word on the street is that they want it back.”

We asked where he got his information from.

“The Dutch themselves,” he replied. “There is still a small group of them from way back when living here. They walk by Anping and glare at it enviously. Taiwan is distracted by China at the moment, so this is an opportune time for Holland — which they say has an invasion plan drawn up — to snatch it back.

Taiwan will never know what hit her. Once the Dutch launch the attack and scoop Anping back, they’ll be able to reclaim the entire island...”

I looked up at the battle cannons and tried to imagine them being manned by modern day Europeans repelling a Taiwanese counter-strike. As bizarre as the vendor’s story was, one Dutch student from Cheng Kung University (成功大學) who we ran into near the fort refused to comment on the rumor and walked briskly away, fueling our suspicion.

Located on the same block as Anping Fort just outside the entrance is the Anping Fort Museum (admission free), which houses an amazing collection ancient Taiwanese artifacts ranging from traditional garments, musical instruments, opium pipes and fish traps that could snare a sea monster — just for starters.

A short drive from Anping Fort is the Eternal Castle (NT$25 admission), which is surrounded by a carp-filled moat. This place is not so much a castle as it is a former training ground for troops.

]]>An Pinghttp://www.steellong.com.cn/post/252.html#commenthttp://www.steellong.com.cn/http://www.steellong.com.cn/feed.asp?cmt=252http://www.steellong.com.cn/cmd.asp?act=tb&id=252&key=d743132bsales@steellong.cn (steellong)http://www.steellong.com.cn/post/127.htmlTue, 28 Jul 2009 03:06:13 +0800http://www.steellong.com.cn/post/127.htmlAnping has now over 10,000 enterprises and more than 120,000 people involved in production and business of wire mesh now. The product develops into 8 series, over 600 varieties and 6000 specifications, mainly include woven wire mesh, welded mesh, perforated metal, expanded metal... widely used in industry, agriculture and scientific research and other fields. Sales offices of Anping Wire Mesh are spread over 600 cities of the whole country. Anping wire mesh products have been exporting to more than 100 countries and regions in the world. The output and export volume of Anping account for 80% of that of China.

Anping International Wire Mesh Fair
China Anping International Wire Mesh Fair:
China (Anping) International Wire Mesh Fair, held every year since 2001, is the only wire mesh professional fair in the world, now is attracting more and more exhibitors and businessmen home and abroad. It is considered the most important business platform for Wire Mesh and its related wire.

History of China Anping International Wire Mesh Fair:
The first International (Anping) Wire Mesh Fair was successfully held at Wire Mesh World in October 2001. The fair received totally business visitors over 120000 times from home and abroad, including 168 foreign businessmen from US, Canada, Sweden, Ukraine, Australia, India, Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, Vietnam. Some businessmen from Hong Kong and Taiwan were also present at the first fair. 140 show booths were sold out and 46 buyers were sino-joint ventures and foreign enterprises which took up 35% among all exhibitors. Niu Maosheng, the provincial governor, and Tong Zhiguang, the former chairman of the National Import and Export Bank took part in and congratulated the fair. Till now, Anping has successfully hosted 8 sessions of wire mesh fairs.
]]>An Pinghttp://www.steellong.com.cn/post/127.html#commenthttp://www.steellong.com.cn/http://www.steellong.com.cn/feed.asp?cmt=127http://www.steellong.com.cn/cmd.asp?act=tb&id=127&key=f39b13bfsales@steellong.cn (steellong)http://www.steellong.com.cn/post/6.htmlFri, 26 Jun 2009 23:16:12 +0800http://www.steellong.com.cn/post/6.htmlIn 1918, Xu Laoshan, born in Xiangguan village of Anping County, introduced the technique of manufacturing metal wire mesh from Japan, and set up the first wire mesh plant in Anping.
In 1928, Anping saw the birth of Minsheng, Yong'an, Tiansheng, Yisheng and other copper wire mesh plants.
In 1937, during the Japanese occupation, the copper wire mesh plants were all ended in destruction.
In 1949, since the founding of People's Republic of China, Anping set up the state-owned Anping County Wire Drawing Plant and four wire mesh (screen) plants named separately as Chengguan, Youzi, Hezhuang and Jiaoqiu based on the collective ownership.
In 1966, with the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, there was a sharp drop in production scale of the screen.
After The Third Plenary Session of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Anping Wire Mesh Industry started to recover.
In 1984, "People's Daily" and "CCTV" reported the development of Anping Wire Mesh (Screen).
In 1985, "1511 Loom" was successfully transformed which signified the changing of wire mesh production from traditional handicrafts to mechanical production.
In 1987, Screen (or wire mesh) development was listed into the national development plan. The first wire mesh products purchase meeting was successfully held at the same year.
In 1990, The relevant state ministries and commissions designated Anping as a crucial export base of wire mesh products.
In 1991, the first enterprise with foreign investment was set up in Anping with the successful introduction of the Japanese shuttle-less arrow loom.
In 1996, Anping saw the construction of Grand Wire Mesh World, a project approved by the State Development Planning Commission.
In 1999, Anping was awarded the honorary title of Wire Mesh Native Land of China by China Hardware Products Association.
In 2000, the Business Directory of Anping Wire Mesh Enterprises was published.
In 2001, the First China (Anping) International Wire Mesh Fair was successfully held in Anping. Anping was awarded the title of Wire Mesh Production Base Area.
In 2001, the book "Anping County Wire Mesh Illustration Selection" was published.
In 2002, the construction of the project "Hebei Anping Wire Mesh Industrial Park" began.
From 2002 to 2007, the second to the seventh China (Anping) Wire Mesh Fair was held in Anping every year. Attracting more and more domestic and foreign companies.
In 2008, the Eighth Wire Mesh Fair have been successfully held from Sep.21 to Sep.23.

]]>An Pinghttp://www.steellong.com.cn/post/6.html#commenthttp://www.steellong.com.cn/http://www.steellong.com.cn/feed.asp?cmt=6http://www.steellong.com.cn/cmd.asp?act=tb&id=6&key=f4b6a02fsales@steellong.cn (steellong)http://www.steellong.com.cn/post/2.htmlFri, 26 Jun 2009 14:16:53 +0800http://www.steellong.com.cn/post/2.html
The main products in the market include 8 series over 600 varieties and 6000 specifications such as stainless steel mesh, medium carbon steel and soft steel wire mesh, steel mesh, copper mesh and chemical fiber mesh. The products are widely used in industry, agriculture and scientific research and other fields, radiating to the whole country and the world. The turnover amount in 2001 is 3.2 billion RMB.

The market is excellent in terms of facilities and functions. Besides all kinds of wire mesh stores, there are still exhibition center, information center, personnel training center and quality control center and over 50 offices of transport service, financial units in the market. The Wire Mesh World is becoming the window opening to the world in this field.

The Administrative Committee of Wire Mesh World is responsible for various service facilities and administration in this market. It also plays an important part in organizing China Anping International Wire Mesh Fair held every year in Oct.22 to Oct.24.

]]>An Pinghttp://www.steellong.com.cn/post/2.html#commenthttp://www.steellong.com.cn/http://www.steellong.com.cn/feed.asp?cmt=2http://www.steellong.com.cn/cmd.asp?act=tb&id=2&key=4fa389e9