Haitima has been dedicated in
ball
valve manufacturing
for over 27 year. Through the
years, "Perfection" has been the
only goal we pursue. With persistence,
effort and 2 decades of experiences,
we have become one of the leading
enterprises of valves
manufacture in Taiwan. We
always concern our customers'
needs and requirements for providing
excellent quality valves to them.
If you are interested in our valves
products, Contact us now and we
will be glad to meet your request
and offer the best quality and
price. Your inquiries are cordially
invited and welcomed.
A lot of production going on
The Haitima Corporation is a
quite unique company in terms of
production, it actually
manufactures all of its own
products, and the only material
it gets from outside is scrap.
"In terms of valve production,
from casting through assembly
and testing, to finally
finishing the products and
making them ready for shipment,
everything is carried out by the
company itself. By keeping all
these tasks under one roof, we
can guarantee the quality of our
valves from start to finish.
This is very important to our
clients because they trust and
rely on us and know that when we
say that we produce high quality
valves, we really mean it. "In
addition to this quality control
aspect, another reason is that
it allows the company not only
to sell the valves but also the
individual components the make
up the valves: the castings, the
parts, and also the Teflon.
"Some companies only want parts
of the valves, the castings, or
just the Teflon because they
want to put the valves together
themselves, and we can provide
the with the appropriate
material to do so. We
export 300 metric tonnes of
castings per month in addition
to roughly 200,000 balls to all
sorts of locations around the
world."
With a customer-oriented
concept, the Haitima Corporation
has come to realize that it's
possible to achieve new
developments by expanding the
company's product range. Through
years of investment and
cooperation with partners,
today, Haitima is able to
provide not only valves, but
also castings including pipes,
fittings, flanges, and even
pneumatic actuators, most of
which are produced in this
Zhongshan factory. "The initial
idea behind this is that we
realize sometimes if the
customer buys the valves,
probably he needs also the pipe
and fittings, and if they have
ordered the ball valves,
probably the actuators are also
needed. As Haitima has been
quite famous for its valve
quality among the established
customers, we started providing
some related products which have
the same high quality as our
valves, and the pneumatic
actuator is just the latest
development. .
Actually we have been doing
this business for years through
our partner company, but we
started producing in our own
factory last year. We have
business experience in this
field, we have the know-how and
equipment in the factories with
all the tools, testing machines
etc to guarantee the production
quality. Our actuator products
have already been well
accepted by some leading
international distributors in
the flow control industry.
The Haitima Corporation
produces a diverse range of
valves, which have also been
applied to various industries.
The main products include
1-piece,2-piece, and 3-piece
flange and screwed-end ball
valves, gate valves, globe check
valves for the oil and gas,
mining and mineral processing,
chemical and petrochemical
industries, as well as the
nuclear power sector. All the
valves we produce for these
industries are, of course,
fire-safe and high-pressure
approved. We produce valves up
to 10 inches, DN 250 and small
size fittings from 1/8 to 4
inches. Actuators up to 300 are
also available here.
A global strategy
Targeting the international
market, the Haitima Corporation
has been doing 100% export
business since 28 years ago. At
the moment Europe and North
America are the biggest market,
however is South Asia, Middle
East, South Africa, and South
America the markets have been
growing and look promising. In
order to enter hte various
market areas, the Haitima
Corporation have spent a lot of
energy and investment to those
specifications the guarantee the
quality of its products,
Currently we are in the process
of obtaining API 6D, beside that
we have already got DNV for our
foundry, ISO 9001, API 607
fire-safe approval, CRN
registered, PED module H
certificate, and 3A. These
guarantees and the fact that we
produce our valves according to
European and American standards,
as well as being able to deliver
them either as single components
or as a whole, show our
customers our strengths and
possibilities within the world
of valves. Haitima holds
the PED certificate which is
required by producers to sell
their products to Europe. In the
US only a very few OEM products
are needed by customers.
Future success
Despite the economic climate,
Haitima' s business continue
growing. "It is good to see that
more and more customers are
planning to come to Asia to
visit valve suppliers. Since
March this year, we have had
several customers visiting our
factories and all of them were
satisfied. As everybody knows,
business was in quite a bad
situation last year. So in order
to get a bigger picture, We
Visited some customers in Europe
who were affected by this. They
told me that they expect this
year to be worse because the raw
material price might be going up
again. This means for us that
the customers tend to plan for
the whole year of 2010, which
results in them placing one
single order and us shipping
every few months. Now we see
that a lot of business is coming
back, which is really a good
sign.
About the company's plans for
the near future, Haitima will
keep expanding and achieving new
developments. We are planning to
buy new facilities which mean
some new equipment will be
imported for the foundry to have
a bigger capacity and better
quality products. For example we
are going to do the heat
treatment in our own foundry. On
the other hand, we will expand
our current sales networks in
some major geographical markets.
We have already set up one
warehouse in Vancouver, Canada,
branch offices in Tokyo, Japan,
Philippines, China, and Taipei
to support the distribution. And
now the plan is that soon we are
going to open a new warehouse in
the Netherlands, near Venlo.
For some time now We have
frequently been getting phone
calls from our Taipei sales
headquarters, telling me that
many customers say they need the
goods as soon as possible. We
have been thinking about opening
this new warehouse in the
Netherlands for years. Now
Haitima has decided to buy a
warehouse which is about 5,000
m2. With this new facility
starting, we will ship the goods
to the warehouse and by doing so
we can better support our
customers. Let me give you an
example: if one customer wants
2" ball valves, and they can't
wait for another two months of
shipping from Taiwan or from
China,m they will be very glad
to hear that I have something
here that can be delivered
within three days or a week's
time.
Service is the key
President Mr Shen Ming-Show
also emphasizes that the service
has always been one main focus
at Haitima, although quality is
also one of the most important
concerns. He continues: "Nobody
can guarantee that they have
100% perfect products. However,
we always try our best to help
the customer if there's any
problem with our products." In
addition to this, he and his
team constantly travel the world
to keep up their very close and
personal ties, not only with
their existing clients, but also
to find new and future
customers. He describes the
reasoning behind this as
follows: "Obviously, it's
necessary for companies to
establish close relationships
with clients. However, in our
case, they tend to be very
fruitful. One reason for this
is, maybe, that we strive to
develop real friendship with
most of the companies with whom
we do business. So, we never
have the feeling that we are
just doing a business deal. I
think that this is uncommon
these days, especially in this
tough and continually changing
industry,"
