Does Black
River have any experience in machined parts?
What sort of projects are best suited to your
supply lines?
What volumes are suitable for offshore sourcing?
Do you need prints or samples or both?
How good is the quality?
What are typical lead times?
How do payments work?
How do deliveries work?
Do you carry inventory with multiple drawdowns?
Can you do plating?
Do you work with plastic injection?
Do you have sales reps in our country?
Does Black River
have any experience in machined parts?
We have about twelve years of experience working with Chinese
machine shops. We can work on projects which require up to
five axis of machining.
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What sort of projects
are best suited to your supply lines?
We are looking for product engineering, drafting, stamping,
die casting, lost wax, sand casting, plastic injection, extrusion
and assembly projects.
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What volumes are
suitable for offshore sourcing?
Volumes should be in the 5K to 10K range per part, and multiple
parts to be consolidated into one shipment to the US.
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Do you need prints
or samples or both?
We need prints at a minimum, preferably via email. For engineering
prints we work with AutoCad, ProE, SolidWorks, Unigraphics,
and RhinoCad software packages. We bill engineering out at
US$50 per hour if you need some help in getting sketches into
a standard engineering format.
We would also prefer to have at least six (6) samples from
any project to allow us to get the part in front of multiple
factories and get the best value in the shortest amount of
time.
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How good is the
quality?
Quality depends on customer requirements and price points,
but we have parts in production for the oil and gas, automotive,
health & fitness, office seating, marine, and airline
industries. Our inspection reports are tailored to the product
and often include testing such as salt spray, pull tests,
material certification, etc.
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What are typical
lead times?
General lead time for tooling is 40 days. Stamping projects
are usually a little quicker, and plastic injections projects
can be a little slower if we have a lot of core pulls or DME
parts. We make tools for local production and for export.
Quantity production is generally within 30 days of tooling
completion.
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How do payments
work?
To keep costs low, we do not factor any financing into the
cost of our products. Tooling fee payment terms are 50% upon
order placement and the balance due upon part approval. Production
payment terms are 50% deposit and the balance when we email
an inspection report with photos of the shipment ready to
go. Goods do not leave China until payment has been made to
our US account.
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How do deliveries
work?
We sell most often on FOB Shanghai terms. We have the ability
to ship from China to your dock, and clear US Customs, but
in general it makes more sense for the customers to work with
a forwarder in the US to keep their costs lower and maximize
cash flow.
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Do you carry inventory
with multiple drawdowns?
We do not carry inventory, except as needed for ongoing production,
or unless customer buys it in advance. Most of our customers
ship in large shipments, and do partial shipments to their
customers in their country.
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Can you do plating?
We do all kinds of plating. Common are zinc, nickel, chrome,
copper, and brass. We can also handle teflon and cadmium plating.
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Do you work with
plastic injection?
We do a great deal of plastic injection molding, both for
domestic use and for export.
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Do you have sales
reps in our country?
We have customers worldwide but no formal rep network.
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