Qi County, Shanxi Province, is one of the major glassware producers in China, with an annual production capacity of about 300,000 tons, of which exports account for about 70%. As the holiday shopping season in Europe and the United States approaches, glassware manufacturers in Qi County are rushing to catch up with orders. In a glassware production workshop in Qi County, there is a lively production scene. After more than ten processes such as taking, blowing, and annealing, crystal clear glass glasses filled the storage area of the workshop.
Yan Chuanming, person in charge of the production of the manual blowing workshop of a glass production enterprise in Qi County, Shanxi Province:There are more Christmas orders this year, an increase of 30% over last year, and the daily production volume reaches 8000 to 9000. It is understood that from May to October every year, it is the peak season for production and sales of Christmas glassware orders in Qi County. At present, it has entered the final production and centralized delivery stage of final orders. In order to meet the needs of the international market to the greatest extent, local production companies are also constantly introducing advanced process equipment, transforming and upgrading them.Li Kai, production leader of the manual blowing workshop of a glass production enterprise in Qi County, Shanxi Province:At present, our workshop is fully automatic ingredients. For example, the small vase we are currently producing is a product used for Christmas in the European and American markets. About 80% of the products have been transferred from manual to mechanized production. The reporter learned that the glassware of Qi County is exported to more than 80 countries and regions, mainly Europe and the United States, and the annual foreign trade volume exceeds 1.7 billion yuan. In the first three quarters of this year, the export earnings of the glassware industry in Qi County exceeded 1.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10%.
