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March 15 , 2024 Adrian Leighton
Renaud hosts and welcomes special guests Marc Burban and Amanda Han, insurance brokers from Asian Risks Management Services. We get advice from these two China insurance experts, explore the typical risks that manufacturers and buyers in China face, and learn … Continue reading
March 11 , 2024 Adrian Leighton
A customer came to us because they have had a BIG disagreement with a Chinese supplier and want to remove their tooling to go to a new manufacturer…what could go wrong?
March 08 , 2024 Adrian Leighton
Renaud is joined by regular guest, Clive Greenwood, an international product compliance expert based in China. They talk about the growing risks of Li-ion batteries used in Chinese e-bikes and scooters amid many high-profile fires in China, deaths in the … Continue reading
March 05 , 2024 Adrian Leighton
Our CEO Renaud chats with reliability and durability expert, Andrew Amirnovin, about Apple’s recent bad news about cracks appearing in their much-hyped Vision Pro headset just weeks after its release to the public. They explore the reliability and durability problems … Continue reading
March 01 , 2024 Adrian Leighton
Adrian hosts and is joined by Sofeast Group senior engineer, Paul Adams, and they talk about the uses and limitations of the metal and plastic ‘development prototypes,’ that is to say, product prototypes made during the development process and before … Continue reading
February 28 , 2024 Paul Adams
Here’s the monthly update from Sofeast’s sourcing team who has been tracking the costs of commonly used raw materials from China for the past year to help you understand where the market is right now. If you or your supplier … Continue reading
February 23 , 2024 Adrian Leighton
Adrian and Renaud discuss how to plan for the handover of your innovative new product to manufacturing (with a focus on hard goods with mechanical elements and some electronic/electrical parts). You’ll learn: What a product handover is. The drawbacks of … Continue reading
February 19 , 2024 Adrian Leighton
Following on from our recent blog post Fake Kickstarter Projects: Do Crowdfunding Sites Protect Backers? where we delved into how well Kickstarter and Indiegogo protect backers from seeing products that end up not fulfilling their promises for different reasons or … Continue reading
February 16 , 2024 Adrian Leighton
Renaud hosts today and welcomes guest speaker Amit Rosenthal, CEO of Proboxx, to the show and this episode’s focus is on moving your products from Asia to where they need to be via freight forwarding. They discuss how the latest … Continue reading
February 14 , 2024 Renaud Anjoran
Do crowdfunding sites do enough due diligence on the advertised products to ensure that backers aren’t seeing fake Kickstarter projects? The situation might surprise you. We also give some examples of how some backers try to bend the rules and … Continue reading