Recently our Quality control division sent a team to a factory in YongKang near Yiwu. Our team frequently travels like this to conduct quality inspections in factories. Ensuring that standards are met, our QC staff monitor the manufacturing process and check the production. On this particular visit our staff lived at the factory for over 1 week to supervise product development and help speed up product development.
When dealing with companies in more remote parts of China, trade and communication can break down far more easily. Setting up production with a factory more than 6 hours by train and an additional 2 hours by car from Shanghai can really be a difficult job. Without a partner in China or a China Buying Office projects can become very difficult.
Some leading exports from Yongkang are;
- Hardware machinery
- Power tools
- Vacuum cups
- Security Doors
- Scooters
- Chemicals and,
- Building materials
Yongkang is one of China’s biggest hardware export suppliers and China’s biggest power tools production base. It is a major producer for a whole variety of products from scooters to vacuum cups/flasks.
Located in the central part of Zhejiang Province- China, Yongkang has been well known for both its aggressive promotion of tourism and booming economy in hardware manufacturing for the past two decades. Yonkang likes to be considered as a ”Hardware Capital of China”.
Additional details:
- Accessible by both train and bus
- Traveling time from Shanghai to Yongkang by train about 6 hours
- Yiwu Market, which is near Yongkang is famous for small promotional gift products - and this attracts businesses from Yongkang.
- Area: 1049 km²
- Population: 536,000; more than 100,000 non-resident workers.
ODM Shanghai is where our group develops most of our hardware products.
