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Company Name: GREAT WALL MACHINERY & MFG. (PHILS.) INC.

Company Type: manufactured and fabricated

Company Profile

Machinery for the paper converting industry in the Philippines before 1975 were all imported from abroad, mostly from West Germany, Japan and a small portion of the imported machine coming from United States and other European countries. The cheapest paper converting machinery available in those years were obtained from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the People's Republic of China. These machinery's were obtained with understandably very average in quality, performance, speed and durability. Most paper converters had to invest in large amount of capital to start a new operation or to expand existing ones. With the abundance of resources in terms of raw materials, manpower and potential buyers, like a cub among the lions, a great task was ahead for the Philippine paper converters, thus GREAT WALL MACHINERY AND MANUFACTURING PHILIPPINES INCORPORATED was conceived.

About Company

In view of the market demand for such equipment's, its aim was to supplement and gradually substitute imported paper converting machines with locally manufactured and fabricated quality machinery, taking into consideration technological advancements as well as financial constraints of the Philippine working environment and the Filipino entrepreneur respectively during these critical years of the Philippine paper converting industry. Being the only pioneer in the paper converting machinery manufacturing and fabrication industry in the Philippines, GREAT WALL MACHINERY regardless of quality of fabrications and reasonable price, had to face the one truly difficult obstacle of the Filipino people, "colonial mentality". The line of thinking of most of the Filipino entrepreneurs, business people and the population in general, were that local products were no match for the quality of their imported counterparts. However, the company proved them false through the years by outmatching the competition from abroad in terms of cost and technological adaptability and feasibility to the Filipino worker and the Filipino working environment. Even as early as the late seventies, the company was already beating the Japanese in their own game – good quality at a low price. GREAT WALL MACHINERY offered better quality at a much lower price! To this day, the same product marketing policy is being practiced.