A crucial aspect of choosing your LED products supplier is seeing if they have a well-equipped lab. The ones with more advanced in-house labs will have a better R&D and Quality Control capability, since they can check up components and products during all steps of its production. 

 What tests and equipment should your supplier provide to ensure better control of lighting quality? What aspects should be tested to check your product’s quality before import?

Sourcing lighting products from Asia allows you to find innovative products for a reasonable cost, but even though more tempting import opportunities open in China, as well as India and Vietnam, the Quality issues would remain your #1 concern when production is outsourced.

Here comes the million dollar question for you - furniture importer and buyers! 

You heard about Vietnam, you know their furniture industry is booming and were told their price is competitive. Maybe you are even from the US and it is becoming urgent for you to supplement China?

Although the Vietnamese furniture export business is still considered new to the international trade of indoor and outdoor furniture, Vietnam has a respected history of making traditional style furniture.    

Begun by a fair amount of Foreign Direct Investment looking for lower labor costs, the furniture manufacturing industry in Vietnam has developed swiftly over the past decade.

To us Westerners, Chinese New Year is often seen as the same everywhere, in any Asian country with Lunar Calendar, and to be honest it is not completely wrong! The general atmosphere is similar no matter if you celebrate it in China, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore or Vietnam.

Of all the inspections I’ve reviewed and observed, two in particular stand out to me: a shipment of lanyards bound for the US, and a shipment of portable slow cookers bound for the EU. These inspections are interesting both for their similarities and their differences, and they point to some important trends in the ever-changing landscape of quality control in China. 

During China fairs we meet dozens of foreign buyers who say that they manage quality control by themselves and usually fly to China in order to visit their pre-selected factory. However is it always the best choice to have your own representatives visit the production and will you actually get a good understanding of the manufacturing process and factory capacities while arranging the visit? What do you need to take into account when planning a trip to China and how to get the most of efficiency out of the planned trip?

Let us share you a story that recently happened to one of our inspectors with a supplier trying to cheat us and our customer.

This specific story happened in Vietnam few weeks ago. But frankly speaking similar stories also happened in every other country where V-Trust already operates no matter it’s in Vietnam, China, Cambodia, India or Bangladesh.

Have you ever joined inspections of your products, conducted by a 3rd party QC company? You can get a better picture of the process or situation if you actually become a part of it. It can help you to understand how the inspection process goes and be more confident about your QC partner. If you never joined inspections, then this article is for you!

We understand you compare options on the market, so here are giving you some points which might be useful when choosing a right QC solution: