Xiamen, Fujian, China

One building, coil at one end and packed racking at the other

Xiamen Hongda Navigation Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. has designed and built storage racking and logistics equipment since2012. The figures on this page are the operating numbers from our own floor.

10,000 m²Factory area

260+Workers

0+Monthly output

5Years in industry

Inside the plant

From coil to a packed bay, in one building

Filmed on the floor that produces the orders: decoiling, forming, punching, welding, coating and the finished stacks waiting for the container. No showroom, no stock footage.

Filmed on site. English call-outs at every stage; the score is an original piece.

Steel storage racking
Xiamen · Fujian · CN

Plant tour — nine stages, in the order they run

The same order of operations for every job

A stock model and a custom drawing travel the identical route; only the setting on each machine changes. Each stage below is photographed on our floor, with the thing it decides written underneath it — because that is the part a buyer is really asking about when they ask how it is made.

Slit steel coils stored indoors under an overhead crane — 01

Coil yard

Cold-rolled coil in slit widths, stored indoors under the crane. Thickness and grade are checked against the mill certificate on receipt, before any of it reaches a line.

What it decides: the substrate every profile below is formed from.

Steel coil mounted on an uncoiler feeding a straightener — 02

Decoiling

Coil is loaded on the uncoiler and pulled through a straightener, so the strip enters the line flat instead of carrying the curl of the coil.

What it decides: whether the formed profile stays straight after cutting.

Cutting

Sheet and plate are cut on the plasma table and the shear, to lengths taken from the approved drawing rather than from a stock list.

What it decides: the cut length of every part in the bay.

CNC turret punch press with numerical control panel — 04

Punching

The turret punch puts the hole pattern into uprights and the slots into shelf profiles. Hole pitch is fixed here, and that pitch is what makes a level adjustable later.

What it decides: level adjustability, and where the beam connectors seat.

Long roll-formed steel profiles resting on a support jig — 05

Roll forming

Roll forming turns flat strip into uprights, beams and shelf edges. The same line runs a heavier section when the load calls for one, which is why a rating change is a line change.

What it decides: section stiffness, and therefore the rated load per level.

CNC press brake with sheet steel positioned on the bed — 06

Bending

Brackets, corner plates and the parts that are not a rolled profile are formed on the press brake, against the same drawing as the rest of the bay.

What it decides: how the frame closes at the corners.

Welding

Frames and brackets are welded at fixed stations rather than on the floor. Welds are inspected visually for penetration, and brackets are checked for square before coating.

What it decides: whether the frame stays square under load.

Red powder-coated uprights hanging from an overhead conveyor — 08

Coating

Degrease and pre-treat, then electrostatic powder, then the oven. Uprights hang on an overhead conveyor so the coat reaches the full section, including the inside of the profile.

What it decides: colour, and how the finish survives a humid store.

Bundles of painted steel beams wrapped in stretch film — 09

Packing

Bundles are film-wrapped and steel-strapped by order, and the packing list is matched to the bundle before it leaves the bay. Nothing is counted for the first time at the port.

What it decides: whether the quantity on the list is the quantity in the container.

The building

Roll forming, welding, coating and packing in sequence

Racking is a steel product before it is a storage product. Because the uprights and beams are formed here, a change in load rating is a change on the line — a heavier section, a different hole pitch — rather than a re-order from another factory.

Coil is checked on receipt, formed into profiles, welded at fixed stations, coated on an electrostatic powder line, then bundled and palletised against the packing list. Every one of those steps sits within the same building, which is why a re-run on a missing bundle takes days rather than a shipping cycle.

Wide interior view of the factory with overhead cranes and coil storage

Production equipment and stages

Steel coil storage: Cold-rolled coil held indoors under the crane; thickness and grade checked against the mill certificate on receipt.
Decoiling: Coil loaded on the uncoiler and pulled through a straightener before the strip reaches a line.
Cutting: Sheet and plate cut on the plasma table and the shear, to lengths taken from the approved drawing.
Punching: Turret punch for the hole pattern in uprights and the slots in shelf profiles; the pitch set here is what makes a level adjustable.
Roll forming: Uprights, beams and shelf edges formed from strip; a heavier section is run on the same line when the load calls for it.
Bending: Press brake work for brackets, corner plates and parts that are not a rolled profile.
Welding: Frame and bracket welding by hand at fixed stations, inspected before coating.
Pre-treatment and coating: Degrease, pre-treat, electrostatic powder, then the oven; uprights hang on an overhead conveyor so the full section is coated.
Packing: Film-wrapped and steel-strapped bundles, palletised by order against the packing list.

On a working day

Fourteen photographs, no styling

Taken on the floor rather than in a studio, on ordinary working days and in whatever colour that order was running. If you want to see a specific stage before you order — coating, packing, or a coil actually being formed — ask and we will photograph it for your file.

Slit steel coils stored indoors under the overhead crane — Coil yard — held on site, graded on receipt

Decoiler feeding coil into the press line — Decoiler feeding the line

Plasma cutting head cutting steel plate with a bright arc — Plasma cutting

CNC turret punch press with its control panel — Turret punch

Roll-formed steel profiles resting on a support jig — Roll-formed profiles

CNC press brake with sheet steel on the bed — Press brake

Welder joining a steel frame in a welding mask — Frame welding

Powder-coated uprights hanging on an overhead conveyor — Coating line

Small powder-coated components stored on shelving — Coated components

Tooling and dies stored on green racking by part — Tooling and dies

Two workers assembling a racking component — Assembly

Bundles of painted steel beams wrapped in film and strapped — Bundled and strapped

Wrapped red and blue racking bundles on the factory floor — Ready for the container

Stacked perforated shelf panels on the factory floor — Shelf panels

Quality control

Five checks between coil and container

Incoming steel

Coil thickness and grade checked against the specification before forming.

In-line forming

Profile dimensions checked at the start of each run and at fixed intervals.

Weld inspection

Frame welds inspected visually for penetration and bracket alignment.

Coating check

Film thickness and colour matched against the approved sample.

Pre-shipment

Load test on sample units, quantity and packing list verified before loading.

Packing and loading

Counted twice, then strapped

A racking order is a long, heavy, awkward load, and most of the damage it takes is between the factory and the site. Bundling is done by order rather than by part number, so a bundle that arrives short can be traced to the bundle, not to the container.

Bundle packing: Film wrap and steel strap, bundled to the container length so uprights are never cut to fit.
Palletised option: For buyers who receive into their own warehouse and want the load to move by pallet truck.
Loading plan: One plan per container, in loading sequence, with the weight distribution checked before the doors close.

Wrapped red and blue racking bundles stacked on the factory floor

Company record

What is on file, and dated

Business typeOEM / ODM

Factory area10,000 m²

Workers260+

Monthly output200,000+

Years in industry5

SGS onsite verification2026-06-30

CustomizationSample-based

Onsite verification by SGS Group dated 2026-06-30. Certificates and reports are issued on request.

Before you place an order

Three ways to check us, none of them a brochure

Buying racking from a factory you have not visited is a real risk, and most of our customers are in that position on the first order. These are the three ways they normally resolve it.

Read the certificate

Onsite verification by SGS dated 30 June 2026, covering the site and the business licence. The report is issued on request.

Walk the floor on a call

A scheduled video call through the lines in the order they run, so you see the coil, the forming line and the packed bundles in one session.

Start with a sample order

One bay or one shelving unit, built to your drawing, before a container is committed. The sample is the same line as the production run.

Who you deal with

A small team, one contact per enquiry

Enquiries are handled by the sales team that owns the drawing, so the person quoting is the person answering the technical question. Names are not published here; the reply comes from a named contact.

LocationXiamen, Fujian, China

Business typeCustom manufacturer · ODM available

How an order startsDrawing and quotation before production

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