Hi everyone,
I work with all kinds of tooling, be it plastic, die cast or stamping. One item that i came across is a simple stapmed plate with 2 bends and three holes in the center. For my US tooling i would expect one tool, progressive die containing three stations. I found the US quote for this around $25k, but in China, i found they seperated the tooling to three seperate tools, total cost $7.5k.

In asking why the difference in strategy it became apparant that be seperating the tools they could run on lower cost simple equipment..

the part price was also lower, but now with the decline of the dollar to RMB I have to watch out..

We deal with China on a daily basis. Sourcing, escrow payments, testing, shipping and final approval. Anybody need parts ourcing in China and don't feel like taking the risks, feel free to contact us.

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