Companies in Foshan, Guangdong

Guangdong Xingfa Aluminium is a name most consumers never see, but the company's products are everywhere: its aluminum extrusions — the shaped aluminum profiles that become window frames, curtain walls, and structural components — are used in buildings across China and dozens of other countries. Founded in 1984 in Foshan, the heart of Guangdong's aluminum industry, Xingfa has grown into one of the world's largest aluminum profile makers. The business is built on extrusion: heating aluminum billets and pressing them through dies to create custom cross-section shapes, then treating them with anodizing, powder coating, or other finishes. Xingfa's profiles go into architectural applications (windows, doors, curtain walls), industrial uses (heat sinks, rail components, automotive parts), and a growing range of new-energy products (aluminum frames for solar panels and EV battery housings). With several thousand employees and annual revenue near RMB 20 billion, Xingfa operates one of the world's largest extrusion plants in Foshan plus factories in other provinces and overseas. For construction companies and industrial buyers, Xingfa is the scale player — a supplier that can deliver enormous volumes of consistent-quality profiles, backed by the deep aluminum ecosystem of Guangdong.

Midea's origin story is a Chinese manufacturing legend: in 1968, founder He Xiangjian and 22 neighbors started a workshop in Shunde, Guangdong, making plastic bottle caps. Five decades later that workshop is the world's largest home appliance maker by revenue — and, through its majority stake in German robot maker KUKA, a major player in industrial automation. The company's appliance empire spans air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums under the Midea brand and the acquired Toshiba home appliance brand. Its scale is staggering: annual revenue near ¥373 billion (US$52 billion), roughly 190,000 employees, and factories on every continent — including a new appliance plant in Egypt and expanding production in Vietnam and Thailand to serve global markets. Midea's industrial arm is the differentiator most consumers never see: through KUKA it sells industrial robots and automation systems to factories worldwide, and its own plants are among the most automated appliance factories on earth. For B2B buyers, Midea offers something rare — an appliance giant that is simultaneously a robotics and automation supplier.