Menghai Tea Factory

Menghai Tea Factory used to be called Fuhai Tea Factory, commissioned by China Tea Co. it was setup by Mr. H.J. Fan in the Autumn of 1940. Menghai Tea Factory is a famous brand by itself and it was elected as an AAA class reputed enterprise in China, and the 1st class enterprise in Yunnan. Once it was the largest tea producion company, it was renowned for making the 'Dayi' brand ripe Pu-erh tea by using the traditional processing method. In 1973 both Kunming Tea factory and Menghai tea factory were succeeded in making the ripe Pu-erh tea via a 'closed pile' fermentation method, the compressed tea bricks were made. The first batch of the ripe bricks made in Menghai Tea Factory was known as '73 thick Brick', an over fermented product that lost its nature as a tea, but found its good medicine value, and it hard to find nowadays.

Today Menghai Tea Factory is a modernized tea factory with the state of the art equipments, 800 skilled workforce, 120 technicians with a total capital of 1.2 billion RMB. The factory takes an area of 23 million meter square, 4 fine production plants, 11 pre-production workshops. It managed two million mu tea production fields in Bulang and Bada mountains, with 165 sets tea processing machines, and 2 sets CTC black tea production lines.