Our History

Mak Kee Company has been established in Hong Kong since 1957. In the past 50 years, we have evolved ourselves from a ship supplier into a leading lifting and rigging products distributor and manufacturer in Hong Kong.

Mak Kee produces and distributes a wide variety of lifting and rigging related products and accessories including steel wire ropes, steel wire rope slings, lifting chains, webbing slings, synthetic fiber rope slings, mooring equipment and industrial safety products, etc. Because of Mak Kee’s good reputation, Mak Kee becomes trustworthy first class agent and dealer for distributing many worldwide famous brands products. Mak Kee's inventory is completed with thousands of tons of worlds' brand names wire ropes and accessories. With 5 decades' accumulated experience, Mak Kee is capable of providing valuable training and lifting solutions in a large variety of difficult lifting situations.

Mak Kee always regards products safety as her first priority. We have tension test benches and can provide load testing service to customers. Mak Kee also attaches great importance to product quality. Mak Kee has implemented ISO management system (ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 18001) to facilitate quality, environment, health and safety management.

Foreseeing the importance of quality assurance of steel wire ropes in lifting, Mak Kee invested resources into R&D and developed a Non-Destructive Testing device (MKDNT) in replacement with or complementary to the traditional visual inspection for steel wire ropes.

Based in Hong Kong, Mak Kee has a network of branches located all over major cities in China (Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Macau, Beijing and Shanghai) and serving a broad clientele, both local and overseas. Several thousand tons pressing machines and tension machines are present on site at all Mak Kee's branches ensuring efficient production and on-time delivery. Mak Kee is continuing to expand her business and aims at providing our superior service and products to more potential customers.

In the future, Mak Kee will keep striving for providing safe and high quality products and service to satisfy the dynamic customer needs.

1957

In 1957, Mak Kee was established in Hong Kong as a shipping material re-purchaser and supplier.

1970s

In the 1970’s, Mak Kee gradually focused her business on ship deck supplies, such as wire rope, rigging, anchor chains, radio receivers, navigation instruments.

1980s

1980
In the 1980’s, as the industry in Japan, South Korea and China Chinese grew rapidly, Mak Kee utilize her geographical advantages in Hong Kong and gained a large profit by re-exporting a large amount of wire rope.
1981s
In 1981, Mak Kee renamed as ‘Makkee Corporation Limited’ and set up a 300 square meters office. In the same year, Mak Kee invested and established ‘Makkee Transportation Company Limited’ in Hong Kong.

1990s

1990s
In 1990, Makkee started to expand her overseas business and renamed as ‘Mak Kee International Hong Kong Company Limited’.
1991s
In 1991, branch office ‘Guangzhou Makkee Machinery Co. Ltd.’ was established.
1993s
In 1993, ‘Guizhou Steel Union Co., Ltd.’ was jointly established by ‘Guizhou Wire Rope Incorporated Company’ and Mak Kee as sino-foreign joint venture.
1998s
In 1998, branch office ‘Shenzhen Makkee Hardware Co. Ltd.’ was established.

2000s

2003
In 2003, branch office ‘Makkee International Macau Co., Ltd.’ was established.
2003s
In 2003, branch office ‘Makkee Hardware & Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.’ was established.
2004s
In 2004, branch office ‘Makkee Hardware & Machinery (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.’ was established.
2007
In 2007, ‘Gustav Wolf Wire Rope (Suzhou) Co. Ltd.’ was jointly established by ‘Gustav Wolf Group (Germany)’, ‘Jiangsu ShenWang Metal Product Co., Ltd.’ and Mak Kee as joint venture.
2007s
In 2007, Makkee has set up her plant and warehouse, which was about 18,600 meter square, located in Hong Kong New Territories.
2008s
In 2008, Makkee launched her R&D product ‘Mak Kee Non-Destructive Testing device (MK NDT) for wire rope inspection.

2010s

2012s
In 2012, Mak Kee achieved the certificate of DNV2.7-1 offshore container and started supplying DNV2.7-1 sling sets for offshore application all over the world.
2013s
Makkee Hardware & Machinery (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. obtained the DNV 2.7-1 TYPE APPROVAL CERTIFICATE, the certificate update number: S7040.