Shijiazhuang, ChinaSince 2006USA-majority-owned
The quality problem with buying from China is a supervision problem.
SBCCO-China engineers, sources, inspects and expedites heavy industrial equipment for mines, smelters, refineries, cement and water plants worldwide. We are a USA-majority-owned company based in Shijiazhuang — and we are on the factory floor while your equipment is being built.01 / Why not the factory
We are not a factory. That is deliberate.
Buyers often want to deal with the manufacturer directly. For a simple repeat-order commodity that instinct is usually right. Heavy process equipment is not that.
| Factory direct | Trading company | SBCCO-China | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who chooses the shop | You do — from a search engine or a trade fair | They do, and will not say which | We do, from shops we have audited and used since 2006, and we name them |
| Who is present during fabrication | Nobody on your side | Nobody, typically | Our own staff, plus third-party inspectors and your own representative if you send one |
| Who owns the specification | The factory interprets it | Passed along unchanged | Reviewed by our engineers against duty conditions before quoting |
| Documentation you receive | Whatever the shop normally issues | Whatever the shop normally issues | Data book: material certificates, QC reports, third-party reports, as-built drawings |
| Nine product lines on one order | No — one shop, one product family | Sometimes, with no engineering behind it | Yes — FRP, steel, castings, pumps, valves and separation on a single purchase order |
| If something is wrong | Enforce a Chinese contract from overseas | Chase an intermediary who blames the shop | A USA-majority-owned company answers for it, in English, in your time zone |
02 / Our people
The people buying for you have sat on your side of the table.
Our buyers are not traders. Every one of them ran projects, engineering or regional sales for an international equipment major — NHI, Metso, Aker Solutions, Jacobs Engineering, Juli Group — before joining SBCCO-China. They read a specification the way the engineer who wrote it intended, and they know what a Chinese fabrication shop can and cannot actually do, because they have spent their careers auditing them.
Roger Beman
Founded TriAm Industries in Tucson, Arizona in 1988. More than 150 trips to Chinese factories since 2006, around ten a year, to make sure suppliers understood what the customer had actually specified — not what was convenient to build. Fluent in English, Spanish and French, which is how three continents of customers ended up dealing with the same person. He owns Crimar Industrial and is the majority owner of SBCCO-China. The difficult orders still come across his desk.Quality first, quality second, on-time delivery third — and only once all three are met do we talk about price.
Zish Zhao
Operations Director
16 years running China operations — removing the communication, cultural and logistics friction of buying from China.
Miller Yang
Senior Sourcing Manager
20 years in casting and machining. Former North America sales manager at Juli Group.
Wei Wang
Senior Procurement Manager – Mining Products
21 years managing international mining, cement and power plant projects. Former international sales manager at NHI (Northern Heavy Industries).
River Zhang
Technical Sourcing & Supplier Quality Manager
20 years in welding, coatings and supplier quality — ten of them inspecting for WesTech Engineering in China, Southeast Asia, North Africa and South America. International Welding Inspector (IWI), working to AWS D1.1, ASME B31.3 and NACE/SSPC. Was supplier quality engineer on an 83-tank FRP package built in Hebei to ASME RTP-1.
John Chalmers
Global Engineering Manager
34+ years in piping design and plant layout on heavy industrial projects in North America, the former Soviet Union, Africa and South America.
Juan Carlos Bagnod
Mexico Project Manager
33 years as a mechanical engineer, 31 of them in mining mechanical design, specialising in FRP systems for corrosive environments.
Antonio Gomez
Business Development Manager – Peru
35+ years in technical sales and project administration. Former Peru Country Manager for Aker Solutions / Jacobs Engineering.
Jaime Wied
Business Development Manager – Chile
36+ years in mining. Former Country Manager of the After Market Wear Products & Conveyor Components division of Metso Minerals in Chile.
Giorgio Ruggieri
International Sales Manager
Sales and business development professional focused on building customer relationships and developing new opportunities across international markets. Holds a B.S. in Business Administration and is fluent in English, Spanish and Italian.
03 / Quality control
Five points where equipment normally goes wrong. We stand at all five.
Our number one focus is quality. We will not claim a perfect record — nobody who has been building heavy equipment since 1988 has one. What we do claim is this: when something has not met specification, we have found it before the customer did, corrected it at our own cost, and held the shipment until it was right. That is the reason a delivery date moves here, and it is the only reason we will let one move.
Specification and drawing review
Before we quote, our engineers read your drawings, specification and duty conditions. Where information is missing — and on replacement parts it usually is — we measure on site and generate new drawings.Factory selection
We match the item to a shop that has actually built it before, from a network of ISO 9001 fabricators we have used and audited since 2006. Cheapest quote does not win.Customer-approved ITP
Drawings, welding and lay-up procedures and the Inspection & Test Plan are approved by you before fabrication begins. Hold points and witness points are agreed in writing, not assumed.In-process inspection
Our bilingual staff visit during fabrication and report with photographs. Where the contract calls for it we coordinate TÜV Rheinland, Bureau Veritas, ABS or Moody. Your own inspector is welcome at any stage.Data book on delivery
Material of construction certificates, quality control reports, third-party inspection reports and as-built drawings — assembled per major item and handed over at completion, not chased for afterwards.04 / What we supply
Nine product lines, weighted equally.
Most suppliers lead with one thing and treat the rest as an afterthought. We do not. FRP, steel process equipment, castings, crushing and milling, separation, pumps and piping, valves, PTFE-lined products and custom fabrication all carry the same engineering and the same quality control — and can be combined on one purchase order.
05 / Inspection & Expediting
Not buying from us? We can still be your engineer in the factory.
Some of our customers place their own orders in China and only need somebody standing on their side of the shop floor. We do that as a service in its own right — fixed fee, named engineer, report within one working day, and a written disclosure if we have ever bought from that factory ourselves.
Factory audit, before the order
Capability, equipment, quality system, and references we actually call. An honest go or no-go with the reasons written down.Drawings and ITP, before steel is cut
Your specification read against the shop’s drawings and procedures, hold and witness points agreed with the factory in writing.Surveillance and expediting
Dated photographic reports during fabrication, a non-conformance log, and someone who goes to the shop when the date slips instead of just reporting it.Pre-shipment and data book
Dimensional check, marking, preservation, packing and loading supervision — then the documentation assembled and checked before you release the final payment.06 / Industries
Built for plants that cannot afford a shutdown.
07 / Clients
Repeat orders, not one-off sales.
WesTech has been ordering from us since 2006. Glencore since 2016. Freeport-McMoRan, Codelco, FLSmidth, Jacobs Engineering and M3 Engineering have all specified equipment we supplied. In this business the only credential that means anything is the customer who comes back.
Send us the drawing. We will tell you what it really costs.
Upload drawings, specifications or a photograph of the part you need replaced. If we are not the right supplier for it, we will say so — that answer has kept customers with us for twenty years.