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Today’s consumers are increasingly taking a product’s eco certifications into account when making the decision to purchase products or not. How environmentally-friendly is the product? Does the company care about their carbon footprint? Is modern slavery an issue in the … Continue reading →

As we’ve written before, importers have a choice of supplier types when sourcing a manufacturer to outsource production to in China. Let’s assume that you’ve discounted working with an OEM or ODM, and your focus is on finding contract manufacturers … Continue reading →

British product designer Andy Bartlett joins Adrian from the team for an interesting episode about all things industrial design. Andy shares some great information and advice for people starting out in industrial design and entrepreneurs and businesses who’re looking to work … Continue reading →

China is hard to compete with when sourcing suppliers for all kinds of products, however, India is an emerging option for products and services that China used to corner the market in such as PCBs and plastic injection molding. For … Continue reading →

Our CEO Renaud wrote this guest post on Harris Bricken’s ‘China Law Blog’ explaining the two typical Chinese manufacturing models for importers looking for a partner to help them develop and mass produce their new product. In this episode, he … Continue reading →

After we hit 10,000 downloads we promised we’d revisit New Product Introduction ~ here we go! We’ve written before about the complexity of the New Product Introduction process, and this can be off-putting for entrepreneurs and SMEs who’re new to … Continue reading →

The main topic is the non-disclosure non-use non-circumvention agreement. These agreements are important legal tools for importers to use if they’re serious about protecting their business interests and product IP. But there are right and wrong ways to use them, … Continue reading →

This is a guest post kindly submitted by Brad Pritts, Technical Director of Unibond, a longtime reader of our blog QualityInspection.org, who often contributes to conversations around the topic of my articles. A big thanks to Brad for this content… Let’s … Continue reading →

Our CEO Renaud Anjoran continues this mini-series of episodes for importers who want to handle their own sourcing from China from start to finish with this episode about final inspections that is the fourth in the series. Back in part … Continue reading →

QA activities, like supplier evaluations and product inspections, can take place both on and off-site today and the optimal approach is sometimes a blend of both. For example, most importers are familiar with an auditor going to their supplier’s factory … Continue reading →