Our company WHK Manufacturing Trading Corporation started in 1992 as a distributor of water treatment and purification systems under the brand name AQUAsafe. Aside from selling to residential customers, we also serviced commercial as well as industrial water treatment and purification systems.

In 1993, the first water store selling purified drinking water in the Philippines, Club Aspen (later renamed AQUAsafe), was opened. This served as a test market store and was the basis of today's water store franchises.

The company water stores now number more than 700 throughout the entire country. The success in this area of water station franchising has allowed WHK to claim its position as the undisputed leader in the water technology field in the Philippines. WHK also prides itself for having set up AQUAsafe bottling plant operations and franchises in Canada, Thailand, Indonesia, and Taiwan.

Today, the company has thousands of customers including homes, hotels, restaurants and offices, hospitals, dialysis centers, pharmaceutical, mining, semi-conductor, and food beverage plants, here and abroad.

Beginning of 2007, we added Laser Art Corporation which is engaged in surface and sub-surface laser engraving, to our business.

Eventually, we ventured into the mining industry and added Manticao Mines Minerals Corporation which operates our copper ore mine and copper ore concentrate processing plant in Cagayan De Oro, Mindanao, Philippines. We used to sell to domestic buyers. However, we learned that there is a bigger market for copper ore concentrate outside the Philippines. We have already made several shipments to buyers in China.

In dealing with our customers in China, we have our copper tested by CCIC or Alex Stewart at the port of loading. CCIC or Alex Stewart also seals the container to assure the integrity of the contents in the container. CCIC or Alex Stewart takes samples while loading. They divide this sample in four parts. One part is for CCIC or Alex Stewart testing, one part is testing by our local lab, one part is for us, and the last part is for the buyer.