Many foreign injection mold buyers faced buying problems in China, different business culture and language make things complicated and sometime risky. This article will provide a basic guide for you to understand and identify the Chinese injection mold companies. Especially for the one who just start to deal with Chinese mold makers.

When you are a foreign buyer and get an offer from a Chinese injection mold company, you should not just care about the mold price but also require other information.

What is the mold size designed?
Adequate mold base size provides the necessary strength and stability of injection molding performance, try to lower down the injection mold price by inadequate mold size endanger mold quality.

What is the mold steel used?
There are various mold steels out there, their performance has very many differences, the difference also reflected in unit price.

The process of successfully designing and manufacturing new injection molding tools starts with the design of the product, and the design of the injection mold. If an injection mold is correctly designed and all of the tolerances specified, as well as the materials, steel grades, hardness and surface finish requirements, then with that information the injection mold can be built anywhere.

Certain companies have experienced difficulties with China mold makers, because the most important criteria when placing a mold making order is cost. In order for a mold making company to quote 50% of the cost of its nearest competitor for the same injection mold, they have to cut their costs to below 50% of their competitors. This is normally reflected (or not) in surface finishes, material selection, material hardness, lack of precision grinding of mating surfaces, and lack of close tolerances in wall thickness on thin wall products.

I have outsourced plastic injection molding tooling built in China for years, the best source I have found is "JAVE Mold" located in Shenzhen China. They have 2 manufacturing facilities in China. Go to their web site and you will see they have it all covered. I've spent many hundreds of thousands of dollars for plastic injection mold tooling with them and had great success. Their standard shipping (sea) customs charges and freight to your dock is included in the quote and standard ship time is 30 days, plus most if not all engineering charges are free. Also you have to pay for molded sample shipping, but that is understandable. You can even get video of samplings. One last, all plastic injection molds are built with German tool steel and DME components or their equivalent all easy to get here in the United States.

Some of the buyers who buy the mold from China might only be interested on the price offered by the mold suppliers, but l have to tell you it's not wise enough to make any buying decisions base on a simple price. A injection mold offer should include information that influence the injection mold price, ensure you get information: mold size, gating way, runner design, cavity steel, number of the cavity, mold accessories brand, cycle time, guaranteed cycle, by these information, you can calculate the costs and see why some companies' prices are lower and the others are higher.

If you don't do your due diligence up front and during the mold design, build and approval phase---- you'll get what the supplier wants to give you rather than what you want and need. Choosing the top cost German, Swiss or UK mold making suppliers only speaks for not applying, enforcing and monitoring compliance throughout the process.

There is no reason that you cannot get the same quality mold as your German, Swiss or UK suppliers if you do the correct and appropriate actions. You can make a mass anywhere in the world if you choose the wrong supplier.

For injection mold importers, it is always a headache to control the mold making process, as the mold factory in China is thousands of miles away from their companies' location. Let's look into this and try to find the best solution.

It's very important to really evaluate the design from the Chinese mold supplier, an optimized design is the beginning of a success project, find the potential design problems and prevent the risks from happening. Predict all the problems and solve it as earlier as possible. A Design For Manufacturing (DFM) report is definitely necessary at the pre-design stage.

More and more people intend to do mold import business in China, but due to language and cultural different, many western buyers feel it very difficult to communicate with Chinese plastic injection mold makers.

JAVE Mold is a professional plastic injection mold supplier in ShenZhen, China, JAVE Mold has many years experiences to work with customers from western countries, JAVE Mold also have excellent mold making expertise.

Made in China is popular in the world for years. However, the image of Made in China has been judged and recognized as low quality, Chinese mold suppliers faced the questioning from oversea mold buyers and suffered from faith-lack.To ensure the mold quality, there are some main processes need to pay attention to.

It's a trend to invest on research and development in mold making technology, for the past 30 years, China mold making capacity is basically gained from coping the way of developing countries. China mold factories rely heavily on the import machining equipment and CAD/CAE/CAM technology. Along with Chinese economic fast growing, some of the Chinese mold factories realized the shortages and noticed the big devolving space, it's happy to see that in the earliest future made in China becomes to create in China.