Jian'ou City, located in the north of Fujian Province, enjoys a reputation of "City of woods and home of bamboo", ranks the first woods coverage ratio in the province for its dens forest. The wood procession plays the most important role among its local industries. The leftover from wood production provides ideal raw material for activated carbon manufacture, with an annual output reaching 20,000 tons. And materials from neighboring counties can also produce more than 40,000 tons of activated carbon annually.
With great output and adequate material, Jian'ou city's activated carbon industry was developed earlier and has had some management and producing experience. The local authority is attentive to active carbon industry and nominates reserved woods area for active carbon industry usage only as well as arranges preferential policy to support local enterprises. In 1992, the local forest committee arranged special funds and sites to set up Jian'ou Activated Company carrying out regular management and scale enterprise. For the past years, we have raised the quality of our products and annual production volume. We have established our own sales network and developed our major accounts. The corporation has now growing much bigger than it used to be and is very important in the provincial active carton industry. At present, the annual production capacity of activated carbon has reached 10,000 tons, and the new added production line (15,000 tons/yr.) in the second phase was started construction in Dec. 2006 and can be put into production in 2008. Jian'ou city has very convenient transportation making purchasing and marketing convenient. The 316 and 205 national highway is just passing by. There is first class road leading to Mafei Port, Xiamen Port, Changle and Xiamen international airport and big cities like Shanghai. It only costs 3 hours by bus from Jian;ou to Fuzhou. The container can be loaded and discharged directly to and from company. Low cost can be achieved by train transfer result in the Heng-nan Railway Network passing by. The customer can reach our city by plane via Wuyishan airport and there is only one and half-hour tour by car. The telecommunications system is highly developed in Jian'ou city and there is no shortage for electricity and water. The local authority will fully support active carbon production business and Jian'ou is for sure an ideal place to develop active carbon industry.