Harkness
Screens, the world’s leading manufacturer of cinema
screens has announced expansion of its Chinese operation to meet the increased
demand for its products. The new investment sees the creation of a new larger
production facility in Wuqing, south of Tiajin in China.
“The Chinese market is now the world’s largest and
with expansion continuing at such a rapid pace combined with unprecedented
demand for our premium screen surfaces, we felt that we could no longer meet
local demand from our previous facility in Beijing,” explains Mark Ashcroft,
CEO at Harkness Screens. “The new
purpose-built facility not only allows us to significantly increase capacity to
support the growth in the Chinese and wider Asian markets but also boasts the
largest screen coating facility in the Harkness group allowing all of our
premium surfaces to be manufactured to bigger sizes than ever before in Asia to
support almost every screen required, even the most challenging of Premium
Large Format sizes” Ashcroft adds.
The new facility which boasts a maximum coated
screen size of 16.00m x 41.00m is now fully operational and will allow Harkness
Screens to provide its industry leading brands such as Clarus XC, Spectral,
Perlux Digital and Precision White for RealD along with its innovative 4K Digital
Perforation Pattern with shorter lead times to better serve local demand in China
and across the Asia Pacific region.
“With a completely new facility, we’ve been able to
take learnings from our other global production facilities in France, India and
the USA and roll these into the Chinese factory to produce a truly
state-of-the-art screen technology facility with best-in-class production
equipment and techniques,” explains Allen Xing, General Manager at Harkness
Screens China. “Quality remains at the
forefront of our production process and to that end, we will continue to import
our proprietary premium raw materials from Europe to produce our screens,” he
adds.
