David Perry
\nSHAOXING, China\u00c2\u00a0— A new four-story building rises on the far side of the Xilinmen Group\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2 million-square-foot complex here.
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\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s called Building F, a 520,000-square-foot mega-mattress plant that doubles the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s production to 4,000 pieces per day.<\/p>\n
It is, according to Xilinmen officials, the single largest mattress factory in the world. And it is taking dead aim at the U.S. market.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The North American market is a most significant reason for the mattress plant expansion,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said David Zhong, who heads North America sales for Xilinmen (pronounced SHILL-a-men).<\/p>\n
Another reason, company officials said, is to serve the rapidly growing Chinese market for Western-style bedding.<\/p>\n
Some 80 million people in China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s population of 1.3 billion want and can afford Western styles and brand names, one Chinese bedding producer estimates.<\/p>\n
Xilinmen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mattress factory in this old eastern China city has attracted the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attention, including visits by a number of leading U.S. bedding producers, company officials said. They declined to reveal names.
\nIn a brochure on the company, Xilinmen says it has been hailed as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The King of Bedding in China.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\nXilinmen, which means \u00e2\u20ac\u0153happiness to your doorstep\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Chinese, has been dabbling in the U.S. market for the past couple of years.<\/p>\n
*For the complete article, which is the second installment of David Perry’s three-part series, Inside China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bedding Industry, see the July 17 print issue of Furniture|Today.\u00c2\u00a0 David recently returned from a weeklong trip to China, where he visited mattress factories and foam and fiber suppliers. The series is also\u00c2\u00a0offered in an exclusive electronic report.\u00c2\u00a0 For more details and to order the report, click here for Inside China’s Bedding Industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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