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Interview ‘When we place customers’ interest above ours, we earn their trust’ Hanjiang Director Ashley Quan Talks About Company Strategy, Focus And Future Plans In India In an interview with Glass Bulletin, the Beijing Hanjiang Automatic Glass Machine Equipments Co. Ltd. director talks about how setting up service centres and storing spare parts abroad helped cement the company’s position in international markets. Excerpts from the conversation: Q: How long have you been associated with Hanjiang? Hanjiang was my first job after I graduated as an MBA in 2012. This year marks my 10th year working for Hanjiang. This also is Hanjiang’s 20th anniversary. I am proud of the 10 golden years I have spent here. Q: What steps does Hanjiang follow for development of its machines? First, we focus on the market trend. A lot of new demand and even new equipment appear in the market, we should not follow anyone blindly. Our teams analyse what value we can bring to our end-customers with these new products and what benefit can bring to Hanjiang by following a new trend. We analyse SWOT and decide our development direction. Once we have decided on a new development, we put in the best resources to make it happen. For example, in 2008, we got an enquiry from a European company about online gas filling line. At that time, argon gas filling was a very new technology in China. Through two years of continuous efforts, we put major R&D on one thing, and we achieved it. Still now, argon gas filling line is one of the hottest selling products in Hanjiang. It’s the same logic we applied for the high speed sealing robot, super spacer robot, and even on TPS. Q: Hanjiang is a reputed name in IG line machines across the globe. What does it take to maintain this reputation internationally? In my opinion, we should understand our core competence well and try to keep it. Obliviously, without continuous development in terms of technology, we cannot keep up a good reputation in the market. Refreshing technology is always the most important thing what we follow. But it is not enough on this case. 60 Glass Bulletin | October - December, 2022
Hanjiang• 2 Hanjiang team realized that if we care for our customers’ interest ahead of ours, we can win their trust. We started building service centres in many regions in China and overseas. Till now, we have reliable service centres in more than 20 countries. When Hanjiang service and spare parts are easily reachable to endcustomers, trust building becomes easier. During the pandemic, we never stopped sending engineers to our customers when needed. “Easily reachable” is what we have been bringing to our customers for 20 years. For our users, Hanjiang is safe to invest, trustable and reliable, so they can repeat orders with Hanjiang and they love to recommend us to other industrial people too. Q: Currently Hanjiang is the market leader in the Indian subcontinent. What makes you the leader in the Indian glass processing industry? When I join Hanjiang in 2012, we had this idea that Indian market is tough – margin is low and market " Now we have installed more than 70 IG lines in India with a market share of 50 per cent and will complete our 100th installation in the country by the end of this year. Our warehouses in Mumbai and Delhi keep spare parts for daily running and sufficient material for IGU production." demand less. I remember the first time I came to India with an assistant in 2014, we planned to stay one month see the market. We faced a lot of troubles, but I could feel very strongly that the market had potential and we could change the market situation. So I hired two local engineers during that trip and set up our first office in India. Then we have decided to bring our IG lines to Indian local exhibitions. At that time, people knew about IG lines from Europe, Turkey or Korea, but rarely from China. We want to be the first Chinese company to display an IG line in an India expo. From 2014 to 2019, we successfully displayed IG lines to potential Indian customers at expos. We realized that customers also need reliable consumable material for IG production. So in 2018, we build “UNEX INDIA”. Customers can now get comprehensive service from Hanjiang team. Surprisingly, with this new segment, we covered more customers without using Hanjiang equipment. Now we have installed more than 70 IG lines in India with a market share of 50 per cent and will complete our 100th installation in the country by the end of this year. Our warehouses in Mumbai and Delhi keep spare parts for daily running and sufficient material for IGU production. Q: How is the India market crucial for Hanjaing? We do believe the Indian market will be one of the most significant markets for Hanjiang in the next 5-10 years. Currently, the Indian market is around three per cent of Hanjiang turnover. But if we consider the population of India, development speed of the market, and the rising demand, we are sure our size in the Indian market will become bigger in the future. Q: With travel being closed between India and China, how are you managing sales and installation here? It was very challenging for our team at the beginning. The first challenge was the service part. We had one fixed engineer in 2019, but due to too many machines awaiting installation, we hired one more. With our online and on-site training, both engineers can now work well independently. Very soon, a third engineer will join us from this month. I am sure Hanjiang service will maintain very high standards. We use most of all the traditional ways for sales – calls, emails, WhatsApp etc – and we manage social media more actively. We also invite Glass Bulletin | October - December, 2022 61
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