Fashion Cloth Furushima(Head office, HanyuCity in Saitama) in May established Changzhou Furushima Co., Ltd. as a joint venture with Shanghai Furushima and Changzhou IMP.&EXP.Commodities Inspection Co.,Ltd. This is the third Furushima company following Shanghai Furushima and Qingdao Furushima. Changzhou Furushima started operating a year ago, sending inspection teams to nearby factories and securing the support of Changzhou IMP.&EXP.Commodities Inspection Co.,Ltd.so that it was then authorized as an inspection factory, ensuring customer orders and in due course opening officially.
Total investment of the company is 25 million of which Furushima accounts for 45 % , Shanghai Furushima 15 % and Changzhou IMP.&EXP.Commodities Inspection Co.,Ltd.40%. Changzhou Furushima is headed by Chairman Zhu Ming Haiwith Kazuo Furushima as its president. The land area is 3,000 square meters with 1,200 square meters of building area. There are 50 employees. Its main services are production and sales of various textile products, finishing, pressing, mending and inspection. It is equipped with 5 vaccum and up-air pressing tables, 5 irons, 5 automatic needle detectors with conveyer, 5 knit lighting system, 7 special sewing machines, 2 cleaning guns for stain removal.
Changzhou is a table towels producing area. The company plans to respond speedily to the needs of nearby factories.
Furushima’s three factories in Shanghai, Qingdao and Changzhou link up with makers and logistics companies to provide a total service including its specialty of goods inspection, pressing, storage and distribution.
Last year’s business performance was 5 million items in Shanghai( established in 1995 ) and 3.6 million items in Qingdao( established in 1997).