Do you have a forecast how many pieces you will produce or sell? ACO Mold needs a figure to decide what is the most proper mold solution for your project. For high volume production, ACO Mold will propose customer to invest a little more on injection molds so the molding productivity gets higher, that would benefit the molding production cost later after. For low volume production, ACO Mold may just focus on most economic mold solution only even it means a little higher unit price since you won’t make it many. The point is we need to look at this as a package and take the most economic way.

If this is high volume production, ACO Mold would propose you import injection molds only from China and then do injection molding in your country, such as US, UK, Germany etc. If this is low volume injection molding, ACO Mold proposes you do both mold/molding in China. This is how my other clients practice, it works like this for a reason we think.

If we go export molds way–we do molds only, my mold price will be higher than current mold price, estimated 30% higher at least for reasons below:
1. Extra cost for adaptation
Since the mold will be operated by third party such as in US, export mold to US will be made in DME standard and we have to adopt your local molder’s injection machine and their internal mold standard & mold steel we have to use recognizable steel brand LKM with steel certificate. For an in house production mold, we can use cheaper local steel vendor we trust, and mold standard to just adapt to my own injection machine.

2. Extra cost for risk management
For all exports to US or Europe, we will guarantee an minimum molding cycle, for example, harden steel mold 1 million cycle at least, pre-harden steel, 300K cycle at least, that means within this guaranteed cycle times, we take full responsibility for any non-operation caused failures, for this reason we intend to make it more durable than expected usually to ensure safety and meanwhile customer’s satisfaction, by this way, the complaints we got from clients were controlled at an extremely low level, it would be a huge lost if we have to send people to US to do rework or find any US local mold shop to do it, Years also l got bill from my client to rework a mold at 30 USD per hour while l had 20 RMB/ per hour cost here in China, it is a good lesson that we have learned. In another word, it can be a relieve for me to do the mold that just meet’s production requirements if we are the one to operate the mold.

3. Business Strategies
Unlike export mold we count on mold only, we naturally want to win the molding orders by a much lower mold cost or even no profit for mold as we can count on consistent molding order, this is a better business to us.

For all contract molding business, mold cost are always one time charge, that means if the molding orders really exceed the current mold life we will make new molds for free to continue mass production.

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