A strong contract manufacturing partnership doesn’t happen by luck. It’s something you build through transparency and shared values. When a brand and a contract manufacturer work together over the long term, both sides benefit: product quality improves, timelines become more predictable, pricing becomes more stable, and the manufacturing process itself becomes more efficient. Yet many companies approach contract manufacturers in a purely transactional way. They send drawings,

When you are launching a new product, the operations for both production and marketing need to come together. This means you need to understand the timelines associated with each task. On the production side, one task you need to understand is the plastic injection molding timeline.  Without understanding this timeline, marketing will end up waiting for products longer than they anticipated.  The plastic injection molding timeline can vary depending on the complexity of the p

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