A workshop begins
Chairwoman Yang Minghua gathered self-raised funds and fellow laid-off workers to begin producing pressed candleholders and decorative glass in Huishe Town, Pingshan County.
THE HUAYING STORY
Built under
pressure.
A story of laid-off workers, direct export, cleaner furnaces and a belief that pressed glass could become a design language of its own.
In May 1996, resolve became a workshop.
Yang Minghua had worked at a state-owned cement plant. When restructuring left her and many colleagues without work, she chose to build something new. The early team lived close to the workshop, travelled with sample cases and searched for export orders with candleholders and decorative pressed-glass crafts.
“The company did not begin with scale. It began with people willing to make one more sample, visit one more buyer and solve one more production problem.”
/ MILESTONES
Thirty years
in six chapters.
A direct route to the world
Independent import and export rights opened direct cooperation with international buyers and reduced reliance on foreign-trade intermediaries.
From workshop to manufacturer
A dedicated foreign-trade company integrated customer development, customs and order management. Mould, packing and surface-finishing workshops expanded around the core factory.
Cleaner heat, larger ambition
Investment in electric melting and automated production replaced polluting coal-fired equipment and strengthened Huaying’s position in pressed craft glass.
A broader design language
The library grew across tableware, decorative objects and holiday gifts, supported by new mould development and diversified markets in Europe, America, the Middle East and Australia.
An agile new chapter
Huaying retained core R&D, sampling and customized-order management while building a flexible network for standardized volume production and cross-border buyer development.
FOUNDER’S LEGACY
Enterprise as a way to create work, dignity and possibility.
Under Yang Minghua’s leadership, Huaying created jobs for laid-off workers, invested in cleaner production and took pressed craft glass into international retail programs. Her documented honors include National Model Worker, National Outstanding Female Entrepreneur and torchbearer for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
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Many techniques.
One standard of artistry.
Today, Huaying brings environmentally conscious soda-lime pressing together with blown glass, spun glass and complementary craft processes—offering customers one-stop product development, production and service across the full specification of handcrafted glass art.
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