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No. 3 Longtan Road, Qianzhou Supporting Area, Huishan Economic Development Zone, Wuxi, Jiangsu, is the registered address of Wuxi Qianzhou Xinghua Machinery Co., Ltd. and the plant address published on the company’s official website. To describe where the firm comes from, two legal stages must be kept distinct. What started in 1993 was the predecessor, Wuxi Qianzhou Xinghua Machinery Factory (无锡市前洲兴华机械厂). In 2003 the business was established as a limited company under the business license, and that company name remains in use. The unified social credit code is 91320206755880341L. The official website is https://www.xhmachinery.com/.
The official site describes the company as a manufacturer of complete coating, setting and carpet-backing lines, and states that since its founding it has focused on extra-wide multi-purpose coating lines, specialty stenters and carpet finishing equipment. Placed against the geography of Qianzhou, that focus is enough to explain why a plant was established here, without inventing a founder’s memoir: the work is complete equipment for the finishing of textiles and technical textiles, and both registration and manufacturing sit in the Qianzhou supporting area of the Huishan Economic Development Zone. Public sources do not provide a verifiable oral history or a feasibility study from the founding years, so this article stays with the documented change of legal form, the address and the scope of business.
What changed from factory to limited company was the legal form, not the place and not the main line of work. Several enterprise-record aggregators list the limited company’s date of establishment as 12 November 2003; the official website uses the wording consistent with the business license and states that the limited company was established in 2003. Registered capital is given on the about page as RMB 5 million. In later patent filings in which the company is the applicant, Xi Jianxing appears frequently as an inventor; Zhou Tian, Ma Changkai, Xi Xiaohu and Pu Zhenyu also appear on some documents. Those names can be cross-checked in the public record. Early orders, the first customers and precise historical output figures are not used here, because no primary file confirming them has been opened.
Coating, setting and carpet finishing sit downstream of spinning, weaving or tufting. After a fabric or carpet grey enters a line, it is coated or glued, dried or heat-set, and in some cases cut, packed or rewound, so that the product gains properties such as water resistance, light-blocking, dimensional stability or a secured carpet back. The official catalogue is organised around that process position: coating machines for functional finishes on curtain, banner, luggage, mesh, tarpaulin, nonwoven and industrial conveyor-belt fabrics; stenters for screen mesh, filter cloth and fabric heat-setting; and carpet machines for carpet-tile, woven-carpet coating, print after-treatment, artificial-grass backing and vinyl-floor coating lines. Describing the business at this level helps explain why the Qianzhou plant was laid out around complete finishing lines rather than spinning or weaving machines.
One clarification is necessary. Some third-party profiles have given 1988 as a founding year, or have treated the limited company itself as having been founded in 1993. This series does not use those wordings. Under the approved corporate profile, the predecessor factory started in 1993, and the limited company dates to 2003 per the business license. The current official about page follows the same distinction. When reading company introductions, the origin of the business and the registration of the limited company should be kept apart, so that two legal stages are not collapsed into a single year.
Qianzhou, in Huishan, is both the registered seat and the manufacturing site. The about page and the contact details point to the same address. Today’s plant description adds a clearer sense of scale: about 23,500 square metres of land and about 18,000 square metres of buildings, with cold-working, sheet-metal, machining, final-assembly, electrical and warehouse workshops. Headcount is stated, in the approved wording, as more than 100 people. Those figures describe the plant as it is now, but they also show that manufacturing that began in 1993 later became a complete site in the Qianzhou supporting area that visitors can inspect and to which enquiries can be sent.
The official site currently lists about 29 published models, covering coating machines, stenters and carpet finishing equipment, as well as an electrostatic flocking machine and adjacent special lines for conveyor-belt coating, latex mattresses and automotive fibreglass board. Machines can be customised to the customer’s process. The site states that equipment has been exported to Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Nepal, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Argentina, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia and other countries and regions, and summarises this as exports to more than 20 countries. In China the company mainly serves carpet mills, home-textile plants and similar customers. That is the market scope the company itself publishes. It is not a ranking, and it is not a list of named contracts.
The timeline can be closed in one sentence: in 1993 the predecessor factory started; in 2003 the limited company was established under the business license; since then the firm has continued, in the same area, to design and build complete coating, setting and carpet-finishing lines. Anyone wishing to verify the company’s identity can use the unified social credit code, the registered address and the official website together. Patents, qualifications and the process capability of each product line will be described in later articles in this series, based only on public material that has been opened and checked.
For purchasing and technical staff who wish to visit, the official contact path is clear: on weekdays from 08:00 to 17:00, telephone 0510-83397635 or 0510-83382635, or email info@xhmachinery.com. The plant is about 40 minutes by car from Wuxi Shuofang Airport and Wuxi East high-speed railway station. Setting out the years, the address and the main business of the predecessor and the limited company is already a sufficient starting point for this series.