Accurate Screen would like to announce that we are now fabricating bar
grating in our of our 37,000sqft warehouse located in Mississauga. We are set-up in house to band,
weld and cut bar grating to any size. We also now have the capability of
painting the bar grating with our in house paint line. Our paints and primers
are water based latex produced in Canada which is environmentally
friendly, and we are the only ones in the market we are aware of who use it due
to its cost.
We would also like to take this opportunity to clear up some rumours
since we don’t typically respond to our competition but we feel we have been
forced too because of the false statements our competition has been spreading
about us and our products.
We have been selling grating
for the past 10 years, however in the past 2 years we started importing some of
our bar grating from China.
Our competition is not giving us enough credit to think we would expand this
much with inferior quality, low grade steel, failing the NAAMM standards etc since
it took us 2 years to find a reputable mill. During the past year we have seen
tremendous growth in our bar grating our sales to resellers (which we
traditionally discount) and fabricators far more then we could have imagined
hence our tremendous growth.
Our first year in the west we
spent convincing potential customers the quality was not inferior to what they
were traditionally receiving from their standard sources which we had to do
because the North American manufacturers were set to deter the market from
attempting to buy from us so they would not have to compete irrespective of our
selling price which at the start was market pricing. To this day, we have yet
to receive a single complaint regarding our bar grating quality and this is
after 2 years of selling Chinese product.
Fact:
Accurate Screen is 100% Canadian Owned and Operated
Fact: The largest manufacturer of bar grating in Canada (USA owned) and the
largest bar grating importer into Canada (USA owned company) are both
portraying that all Chinese Grating is an issue however NAAMM references “Some”
so be careful who you believe. As one of
the two is clearly versed in Chinese quality and clearly sourced product that
would fail when they were not the only ones picking apples from the grating
tree.
Fact: There are 15 members of NAAMM and a % of them filed for anti-dumping
in the USA (Fisher and Amico), of which one of those companies was a regular
importer of Chinese bar grating into North America for years, yes years
(importing from there own manufacturing in China as well as out sourcing from
other mills subject to price.
Fact: We started distributing our own brand of product because in cases we
were interested in pursuing an opportunity with the North American Manufactures
but we were not happy with the service and/or quality as we have to pass this
potential service on to you since it reflects on us
Fact: There
are 4 major manufacturers of bar grating in North America 3 of them imported Chinese
Bar Grating on a regular basis for years, however the longest standing one shut
the USA market down when they had to compete with the others portraying there
disposition the USA Government impose a 45% duty on all Chinese imported bar
grating for the reasons you have read over the past few months.
Fact: Accurate Screen pays approx 8-10% more for our steel to insure graded
material
Fact: Once you try our bar grating you will realize our standard is North
American Grade and some have said better then the norm.
Fact: There are over 200 Chinese manufacturers of bar grating, where 95% of
them would not meet NAAMM standard consistently so it is easy to find inferior
quality if you have not done a lot of background on the companies.
Manufacturers
that sell product into Western Canada were and
continue to complain we are selling the product to low however they were
informing the market that our product was bad so we had to give customers a
reason to try it, which has lead to our success with it, with repeat business
from all levels. Please do not give into the propaganda or fear, and if you are
happy with all aspects of your current vendor stay with them, if you are
interested in our product then give us a try possibly our service, price, and
yes quality. We are confident you will
come back to us for all these reasons.
The most interesting part of this process is why would one company/s
talk so poorly about another companies quality when a company tells you the new
competition has an inferior product and leads you to believe it will not meet NAAMM,
try to pass anti-dumping laws, cheating on mill tests yet they end up lowering
there price immediately in order to compete, why not just let the product fail
and let us ruin our reputation in the meantime?
If
you require some reference of customers please advise and a list will be made
for you.As such, you want the experts of
accuratescreen.ca to help you make the decisions that can lend to success.
Sincerely,
Jeff
Groot-VP
Accurate
Screen Toronto
