Top Priority: Quality & Service
Ningbo Long I Metal Industry Co., Ltd. is a foreign-capital enterprise co-invested by Singapore and established in 1994. Since it establishment, it has been mainly producing all sorts of stainless steel nuts and selling them to places including Japan, Europe, the US, and Southeast Asia. Its products are compliant to International GB, German DIN, Japanese JIS, American ANSI/ASME/IFI, British BS, and Italian UNI, etc. As per client’s drawings and samples, it can also provide stainless steel nuts, bolts, screws, washers, threads, and studs. In addition, it produces fasteners of carbon steel, alloy, copper, and nylon, etc.
Mr. Yang Zhifeng of the company said, “For clients, Ningbo Long I Metal Industry does the best to provide excellent products and good service.” From manufacturing to delivery, the company uses standard stainless steel wire rods for production, and performs strict digital chain checker inspection on the outer size of products to ensure product standard. Besides, the company also strictly inspects via go - no go fixed gauge, ring gauge, plug gauge, and vertical gauge to ensure thread precision, tensile, and torque requirements. The company sets high standards for itself and therefore gains praise and trust from clients regarding product quality and delivery. Especially when it comes to dealing with the Japanese market that has very high demand for product quality and service, the company’s stainless steel nuts can retain substantially high market shares.
Mr. Yang mentioned that the company has developed a high-strength fastener called “LINED U-BOLTS” for offshore facilities such as petroleum platforms. During use, the fastener can prevent shaking pipes, reduce noise, and substantially decrease corrosion caused by the contact of pipeline and general connecting parts. “This product has been approved by some major offshore facility manufacturers as well as maintenance clients, and the company has started to supply it,” said Mr. Yang.
Speaking of the fastener industry of China, Mr., Yang thinks that China’s general fasteners lately have been in the situation of over capacity, supply over demand, and low-price competition. In response to the future development, the fastener industry must promote industry upgrade and transformation to extend the product from low end to high end. He added, “Ningbo Long I Metal Industry is backgrounded with years of fastener professional knowledge and techniques, as well as understanding and cooperation with companions’ resources, and it will make every effort to develop products of high added value.” He pointed out two directions that the company is heading for: (1) Duplex stainless steel & super-alloy, such as fastener and parts products of A286/NAS660, 1.4529, and INCONEL601; (2) Seeking end clients that have higher requirements for quality and service.
As far as the current China domestic and foreign economic condition is concerned, the fastener industry in the latter half of the year will still face extremely huge pressure. Regarding this fatiguing market condition, Mr. Yang states, “Ningbo Long I Metal Industry will grab the ‘intervals’ to take on technological revolutions and complete the hardware and software for new products and end-client service with no slack.” Finally, looking into the future, the company will continue to expand the special fastener (especially special stainless steel nuts, all sorts of prevailing torque nuts, fasteners for all offshore facilities, and fasteners for solar energy industry, etc.) market share in the US and Southeast Asia to look for clients’ demand and satisfy them.
