Manufacturing Cosmetics in Henan - China

Manufacturing Cosmetics in Henan - China

Workers perform anodizing treatment on aluminum ferrules at a factory of a company in Luyi County, central China's Henan Province, June 17, 2025. Luyi County of Henan Province is home to more than 300 makeup brush manufacturers and over 1,000 supporting businesses. The county has an annual output of 150 million sets of mid-to high-end makeup brushes, generating over 13 billion yuan about 1.8 billion U.S. dollars) in annual sales. Leveraging cross-border e-commerce platforms, these products are now sold in more than 20 countries and regions. As the industry continues to grow, makeup brush companies in the county are steadily expanding up and down the supply chain. Many have moved beyond simple assembly into in-house production of bristles, metal ferrules, brush handles, makeup sponges, and packaging bags, forming a relatively complete industrial chain. Photo by Li Jianan/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

Aluminum tubes coated on the inner surface with Akebono's anodizing technology

Aluminum tubes coated on the inner surface with Akebono's anodizing technology

Akebono Kinzoku Industry has succeeded in anodizing the inner surface of a long, thin aluminum tube. By developing a special manufacturing method, the company has made it possible to coat the inner surface of thin tubes, which was previously difficult. The length of the tube is about two meters, and the diameter is three millimeters, and the wall thickness can be as thin as one millimeter. It was confirmed that the film could be deposited even when bent into a spiral shape. (May 24, 2019, Akebono Kinzoku Kogyo, Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan.