China Rev 1.0

Well, today was most interesting.

We were picked up at 8am by the owner of a factory I visited almost three years ago. At that time they had just moved into their new factory. I expected to see some improvements and an increase in activity. Unfortunately, it appears that they have been struggling since. They do have one new product that could be interesting. The problem is that the huge effort we would have to put into the factory to get them to manufacture to acceptable standards would most likely not be worth it. So we cut the visit short and returned to our hotel.

After lunch, we were picked up by another company. This time there was a mini-bus with a driver and the factory representative. After a 45 minute drive, we arrived at this amazing industrial park, entirely for the use of the one group of companies under a single banner.

The factory tour was impressive, but the showroom was extraordinary. It was huge, and displayed all their products extremely well.

The quality control in the manufacturing process was apparent. Although they do not have UL approvals, the process would be reasonably easy considering their quality control standards.

They have a large range of products which could almost meet all of our needs.

We spent a lot of time with them, drove back to our hotel and continued the meeting until almost 7pm.

This second meeting has huge potential. We are going to get started on the process of trying to get the two companies, ours and theirs, to work together in a formal way.

A great day in China!