Flooring Resources - Hardwood Flooring Mills in Dalian, PR China

Located on the NE coast of China, Dalian is about an hour flight from Beijing. Thanks to Iris Yang and Edward Li of Alliance Trading Co., Ltd for arranging tours of hardwood flooring manufacturers in the area. Jeff Meltzer of Universal Hardwood accompanied me on the trip. We visited three solid wood flooring mills: Dalian Jiayang Wood Products, Caddie Woodwork, and ITMC. We also toured one engineered factory: Dalian Sanlin Wooden Product Company. Special thanks to Edward for acting as guide and translator. - Dave Spreen

Downtown Dalian	Large storage shed	Packaging area	Mr. Qin of Alliance views finishing line
Hardwood logs	Finger-joint line	Kiln doors and monitors	Discussions with management
Engineered hardwood mill	Overview of operations	Labor intensive grading	Dave with Jiang Bensheng, Sanlin Mgr.
Edward and Jeff on far right	Forklift moves through tight quarters	Plenty of stock here	Nice open facility for workng
Examination of installation technique and tools			Dave gets in position for photo of fitter