PETpla.net Insider 10 / 2016

PREFORM PRODUCTION 22 PET planet Insider Vol. 17 No. 10/16 www.petpla.net SPONSORS The China Road Show Injection moulds made in Guangzhou By Kay Barton August 10, 2016, Guangzhou Huayan Precision Machinery Co., Ltd. We met: Mr Kenneth Yao, General Manager Sales Mr Simon Chen, Project Engineer Kenneth Yao, General Manager Sales, who I interviewed as part of the China Road Show, has been part of the team since 2007. In the late 1990s, before joining Huayan, he worked for SinoChem China, the state-owned chemical materi- als import and export company, and then at Husky Injection Molding. His market expertise and differentiation is appropriately extensive. “At SinoChem China, which bought KraussMaffei at the start of the year, I was responsible for selling the imported rigid plastic injection materi- als to the customers in Guangdong,” Yao explains. “At that time, it was the only company that was authorised to import plastics. China’s domestic plas- tics industry was very small back then; 95% of all chemical materials were imported.” Huayan itself occupies a 38,000m² site and employs approximately 580 members of staff. In addition to injec- tion moulding machines for the manu- facturing of preforms and closures, preform moulds with 6-144 cavities and removal robots are also devel- oped and built here. “Many of our moulds are used on Husky and KraussMaffei equip- ment, as well as on our own – a total of around 180 machines, currently, mainly in the area of 72-128 cavities. We also supply bottle blow moulds and hot runner components,” Yao says. We talked about the Chinese beverage packaging market and dis- cussed C’estbon, the water bottling firm from Shenzhen, who I have also interviewed. Yao informed me that almost 80% of their preform supplies are moulded using Huayan equip- ment. During the subsequent tour of the plant, I saw once again a new 12 cavities HY-F250 injection mould- ing machine that manufactures 300g performs for 5 gallon for a Turkish customer. Huayan demonstrated it at the Chinaplas 2015 trade show (PET- planet Insider 07+08/15). “Our sales ratio is evenly balanced between machines and moulds,” Yao says. “In 2015, our turnover was roughly US$80 million, which was equivalent to approximately 20,000 cavities and 80 machines.” Around 20% of Huayan’s turnover is accounted for by exports to South East Asia. “Strong growth of 30%, which was the reality for us just a few years ago, has more or less stagnated since 2013. We are currently consid- ering cooperations with companies in Europe and the USA, with the inten- tion of entering the mould manufactur- ing markets there.” www.gzhuayan.com Kenneth Yao, General Manager Sales With around 600 of an estimated 1,100-1,200 PET pre- form injection moulding machines in the Chinese market, machinery and mould manufacturer Guangzhou Huayan Precision Machinery has a 55% market share. The devel- opment and manufacturing divisions of the company, which was founded in 2002, are situated at the Zengcheng Indus- trial Estate in Guangzhou. It originated in the Guangzhou Machinery Research Institute, which specialised in mould making for and servicing of ASB and Aoki PET machines from 1990 until 1996. In 1996 the founders left the Insti- tute and founded Rijing, with the intention of manufacturing PET bottle blowing machines. In 2002 Rijing was sold and became the basis of a new company, which we know today as Tech-Long, a bottling line manufacturer. The current Huayan identity was registered in 2002.