Sourcing Catalog
The supply chains we actually walk through.
Sixteen industries, and in every one of them we already hold factory resources. This is not a shop: nothing here is priced, stocked or sold by us. Find the line your product sits in, and we start from suppliers we have already vetted.
Industries
Small appliances
Kettles, air fryers, irons, blenders. Moulds are cheap enough that a thousand units can carry your own brand; what slows a launch is the plug and the safety file.
Kitchenware & cookware
Cast iron, die-cast aluminium, clad stainless, and the non-stick layer on top. Cheap to sample, hard to get right: a five-year pan and a five-month pan differ by the coating.
Plastic housewares
Storage boxes, laundry baskets, kitchen racks, bins, planters. The lowest entry cost here and the easiest to get wrong, because two plants quoting the same shape often quote two different plastics.
Outdoor furniture
Aluminium frames, woven rattan, teak, cast aluminium, fabric and hardware sourced in one pass. What decides your returns is carton volume: furniture pays for the air it ships.
Stationery & office
Pens, notebooks, folders, staplers, desk accessories. Easy to look at, hard to spec, because one notebook can hide three different paper weights.
Lighting
Ceiling lights, track, floodlights, strip and the driver behind them. The LED gets the attention; the driver decides the lifespan and rarely appears on page one of the quote.
Hand tools & hardware
Spanners, pliers, screwdrivers, measuring tools, power-tool accessories. Price is set by heat treatment, and heat treatment is invisible in a photo.
Pet products
Beds, carriers, bowls, cat trees, leashes, toys. Failures are rarely the product itself: it is fabric that misses the flammability test, or a colourant that is not on the food-contact list.
Home textiles
Bedding, towels, rugs, cushions, curtains. Grams per square metre, shrinkage and colour fastness are the three numbers to write into the spec, or every batch arrives slightly different.
Packaging & printing
Colour boxes, cartons, hang tags, manuals, shrink film, labels. Packaging is the part decided last and the part that delays the whole shipment.
Consumer electronics
Chargers, cables, power banks, Bluetooth accessories, small smart devices. Certification and cells are the two gates, and most of the price gap sits between them.
Sports & fitness
Dumbbells, mats, resistance bands, plyo boxes, home machines. Steel and foam density decide how long it lasts, and neither is obvious in a sample.
Auto accessories
Cabin storage, floor mats, cleaning and care, lighting, fitment parts. Fitment is the whole game: one wrong clip and the batch comes back.
Garden & outdoor living
Planters, irrigation, garden tools, camping and patio storage. The hard part is volume and weight; freight often costs more than the goods.
Bathroom & building
Faucets, shower systems, tiles, door and window hardware, cabinet fittings. Surface finish is what gets negotiated, brass content is the number worth arguing about.
Baby & maternity
Cots, stroller parts, feeding products, comfort toys, children’s furniture. The barrier is not price, it is test reports and the regulation behind them.
Supply chain notes
Capacity and factories we have connected recently. Each one is written up as an article.
- 2026.11 Wall art: nine lines — printed canvas to hand-painted oil, one QC system
- 2026.11 LED light paintings: backlit canvas, A4–40×60, remote dimmer
- 2026.11 Sewing kits: folding zip folio, 86–304 pieces, 24 thread colours
- 2026.11 Weaving looms: folding pine frame, three reed pitches, 33 cm width
- 2026.11 Ball valves: lever, butterfly and lockable, 1/2″–2″
- 2026.11 Brass hardware: HVAC manifolds and mixing valves, PN16 line open
- 2026.11 Small appliances: heating lines open for sampling, plug and energy label covered
What this is, and what it is not.
This is not a shop. Nothing here is priced, stocked or sold by us. We hold no inventory and put no margin on the goods — that is the entire point of a buying agent, and a catalogue with prices on it would make us something else.
What it is: a record of the industries we hold factory resources in, the specifications they usually quote, and the part of each one that goes wrong most often. You bring a product; we tell you whether it sits in one of these lines, and what tends to break in it.
Factory names stay private until you are a client. Send a specification and you get the shortlist, the comparable quotations, and the audit notes behind them — including the parts we were not comfortable with.
Your product is not on the list?
These sixteen are the lines we run most often, not the limit of what we can source. Send a photo, a drawing, or the item you buy today.