Sofeast Knowledgebase Blog

A common fear that importers have when outsourcing product development and/or manufacturing to Chinese suppliers is that they will suddenly increase prices without warning. After doing months or even years of work to prepare to launch your new product, you … Continue reading →

Unauthorized subcontracting could really hurt your business. You need to get your products made on time, but at what cost? Our CEO Renaud is joined by Adrian from the team and they go through what this is and the dangers … Continue reading →

The European Union is getting serious about sustainability and is already working towards ‘becoming a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy where there are no net emissions of greenhouse gases in 2050 and where economic growth is decoupled from resource use.’ … Continue reading →

The Sofeast Group’s head of New Product Development, Andrew Amirnovin, joins Adrian to warn you about the ONE THING YOU MUST DO BEFORE GOING INTO MASS PRODUCTION! We won’t give it away here – you’ll have to listen to the … Continue reading →

India has a rich tradition of glassmaking which goes way back to the medieval period and spans all the way to today’s glass companies in India who are still producing excellent glassware for personal and industrial use. The earliest mention … Continue reading →

Manufacturing new products is riskier than those which have been in production for some time, that’s true for almost every product type and in particular for electronic products, because there’s just more to go wrong and more that we don’t … Continue reading →

Following my recent trip to India to tour a lot of component manufacturers and get to grips with what it’s like as a supply chain base for today’s importers who’re interested in alternatives to China in June 2022, I wrote … Continue reading →

For the past 2 weeks in June 2022, I’ve been travelling around India on a mission to discover how sourcing from India has changed since my last visit around a decade ago. I’ve seen a number of different component factories, … Continue reading →

Sofeast CEO Renaud is joined again by friend of the show and product compliance expert, Clive Greenwood of SMC GLOBAL Manufacturing Consultants, to talk about the new ‘Ecodesign for sustainable products regulation’ set to become law in 2023 that will … Continue reading →

Anyone that has worked with Chinese manufacturers or suppliers for a period of time will no doubt have experienced times when they simply do not want to give you supply chain information. We recently discussed the problems caused by a lack … Continue reading →