An export chair plant in the chair town of China
Global Furniture (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd. — Jiaruifu — has built chairs for export in Anji, Zhejiang since August 2002. One large site, one focus: filling containers for overseas buyers.
Anji makes chairs the way other towns make shoes — the gas-lift makers, the foam cutters, the mesh and base suppliers all sit within a short drive. A factory here can quote sharply and turn a sample fast because the supply chain is next door. We’ve been part of it since 2002.
The numbers, plainly: USD 8 million invested, a 70,000 m² site carrying about 100,000 m² of buildings in the Sunshine Industrial Park, and a monthly outbound of 800 to 1,000 forty-foot containers. The site sits 62 km from Hangzhou and within trucking range of Shanghai and Ningbo, so sailings are rarely a bottleneck.
Why export-only changes how we work
Plenty of Chinese furniture makers serve the home market and treat export as a side channel. We don’t have a home channel — every chair we’ve built since 2002 has gone overseas, mostly to Europe and the United States, with long-standing relationships behind a lot of that volume. That focus shows up in small, useful ways: the documents are right the first time, the cartons are sized for sea freight rather than a local van, and the export desk thinks in HS codes and 40HQ counts.
We stay close to seating — office, gaming and leisure chairs — instead of chasing every furniture category. Keeping the catalogue to chairs means the tooling, the testing and the packing are all pointed at the same problem, which is the quiet reason a mixed container leaves on time.
The trade-off we’re honest about
A plant this size is built for volume, not for a tray of samples shipped by courier. If your order is a few dozen chairs or a single retail address, a smaller workshop will serve you better and we’ll say so. Where we earn our keep is the repeat full-container programme — that’s the customer the whole site is tuned for.
Inside the factory
Two photos from our own site in Anji — the campus and the upholstery line, as they are.
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We’re happy to walk you through the plant on a call, or host you in Anji. Send a note and we’ll set it up.