Shengkai Innovations, Inc., a leading ceramic valve manufacturer with operations in China, provided an update on its newly established facility in Tianjin Airport Economic Area, approximately 7 miles away from Tianjin Binhai International Airport and 17 miles away from its current factory.
The construction of the new manufacturing facility, which is expected to replace the current factory in the Tianjin Jinnan Development Area, was completed in June 2010. Since then, the company has been undergoing installation of equipment and machines, and trial production is being conducted prior to full-scale operation. Upon full operation of the new facility, Shengkai expects to increase the total annual capacity to 24,000 units of ceramic valves, from current production capacity of 7,500 units.
Mr. Chen Wang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Shengkai Innovations, remarked, "Thanks to the high quality and durability, our ceramic valve products have been well received by power generation, oil and petrochemical, metallurgy and other industries in China and overseas. With the new facility coming online, we expect our capacity bottleneck to be unlocked and in doing so we plan to quickly ramp up our production to meet rising demand, particularly from the oil and petrochemical sector. We are confident this fiscal year will be an even stronger year."
About Shengkai Innovations, Inc.
Shengkai Innovations is engaged in the design, manufacture and sale of ceramic valves, high-tech ceramic materials and the provision of technical consultation and related services. The Company's industrial valve products are used by companies in the electric power, petrochemical, metallurgy, and environmental protection industries as high-performance, more durable alternatives to traditional metal valves. The Company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Tianjin, the PRC.
The Company is one of the few ceramic valve manufacturers in the world with research and development, engineering, and production capacity for structural ceramics and is the only valve manufacturer in China that is able to produce large-sized ceramic valves with calibers of 6" or more. The Company's product portfolio includes a broad range of valves that are sold throughout the PRC, to Europe, North America, United Arab Emirates, and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The Company has over 400 customers, and is the only ceramic valve supplier qualified to supply SINOPEC. The Company also became a member of the PetroChina supply network in 2006.
