39 Strategies For Designing Products With A Lower Environmental Impact

Renaud and Adrian from the team tackle how to design products with less negative environmental impacts and share and comment on the 39  environmental improvement strategies from the IEC 62430:2019 standard for environmentally conscious design. You’ll find that you won’t … Continue reading

The Shore Hardness Test for Silicone and TPE Items

In this post, we’ll show you how to check the hardness of soft silicone and TPE parts and items with the Shore hardness test. Much of the time the hardness (or softness as it may well be seen) of these … Continue reading

9 Questions You Need Answers To When Developing A New Product (Part 2)

Sofeast’s CEO Renaud completes part 2 of his journey through 9 of the key questions businesses who’re developing new products commonly need answers to. Here’s part 2 of the podcast covering questions 5-9…(by the way, you can catch up on part … Continue reading

Where is Chinese manufacturing capacity being relocated to in the Asia Pacific in 2023

If we said that nothing is changing when it comes to outsourcing manufacturing to suppliers in China we wouldn’t be being entirely truthful. Now that the Covid pandemic is in the past, businesses are starting to look at where their … Continue reading

Manufacturing Alchemy! 5 Ways To Turn A ”Cheap” Product Into A High Profit One

Sofeast’s head of New Product Development, Andrew Amirnovin, is back with Adrian from the team. They’re talking about manufacturing alchemy: taking a cheap product and converting it into a high-profit one! How can importers do this? Andrew shares 5 ways … Continue reading

DFM for PCBA – 40+ Improvements

Printed Circuit Board Assemblies (or PCBAs) are a critical component for electronic products of all kinds as they’re home to many of the electronic components that, simply put, allow the product to operate. Manufacturing and assembling them is either done … Continue reading

9 Questions You Need Answers To When Developing A New Product (Part 1)

Sofeast’s CEO Renaud is joined by Adrian from the team and they’re going to go through 9 of the key questions businesses who’re developing new products commonly need answers to. Here’s part 1 of this podcast covering questions 1-4…(by the … Continue reading

sofeast china raw materials price indices

Here’s the monthly update from Sofeast’s sourcing team who has been tracking the costs of commonly used raw materials from China since January 2021 to help you understand where the market is right now. If you or your supplier are … Continue reading

Planning For Effective Pilot Runs [Podcast]

Sofeast’s head of New Product Development, Andrew Amirnovin, explains what pilot runs are, their benefits to importers, the risks of skipping them, and the 5 key things that you need to plan for in order to get good results.   … Continue reading

Sourcing & Manufacturing In China For E-Commerce Sellers [Interview By Proboxx]

Our CEO Renaud was recently interviewed on Proboxx‘s YouTube channel about sourcing and manufacturing in China. They’re a company that helps sellers manage logistics. We’re grateful for the invite! 😉 Specifically, he shares some advice for Amazon resellers and new … Continue reading