![]() Ensure that you are directly dealing with the supplier
1. and try to avoid brokers, agents, company representatives, etc. as these guys charge commission for
equipment and it would be included in final price. Vendor is not going to pay this commission from his pocket. Indirectly it is the customer who ends up paying it from his own pocket. 2.Check if particular vendor has operational plants in China or abroad and try to visit them. Vendor may have operational plants in their country (e.g. China, Russia, Europe, etc.), but may not have an operational plant in China. It is easy to install and support a plant in their homecountry, but installing and supporting a plant in China is a different ball game altogether. So while deciding on a vendor it is very essential to visit such operational plants in China and talk to existing customers. 3.Visit vendors factory/workshop to get an idea of their operations and workmanship. It has been observed that couple of vendors with jazzy websites and glossy brochures didn’t have their own workshop and were hoping to secure an order to help them start their own workshop. Helping people is a noble cause, but this is business we are talking about. It is better to work with existing players rather than funding a non-entity. 4.Check with vendors about their after-sales support network in your area. They might have a good after-sales team and willing to extend support. But if this team is in a different country, it would require lot of time and money for them to reach your location in order to provide support. So try to gauge after-sales support capability of a vendor in your area/country. 5.See if vendor is willing to let you ‘localize’ your plant by including as much local equipment as possible. This might also include modification to vendor supplied equipment to suit local conditions. Vendor may provide you with specifications for necessary equipment like motors, screw conveyors, conveyors, valves, etc. There are various benefits of having local equipment integrated. Primary benefit is that you can find out best vendors in local market rather than unknown foreign vendors for such equipment. Secondly it would lower the cost of entire project. Your savings will be in terms of total import bill, sea and surface transport as well as customs. Moreover it gives peace of mind and quality assurance since you may reject equipment back to local vendor in case of any defects. Youll also get much faster aftesales support from vendors of local equipment compared to foreign vendors. 6.Try to compare level of technology and automation offered by various vendors. I am not asking to go for fully-automatic plant – that may be a very costly affair but it should have decent amount of automation. There is no point in having a completely manual plant as it’ll hamper productivity and might prove to be a costly affair in running cost due to increasing labour wages and decreasing availability of labour. Moreover if you have plans to expand your plant in near future, automation will play a major role. ![]() I am sure that once your plant is running well and you are able to sell entire production at good rates, you’ll be tempted to expand your production capacity. But if your plant does not have expansion options, you might need to set up a completely new production line. This would be a very costly affair in terms of money, resources and time. So, when you select to set up your first plant, ensure that your plant comes with enough expansion options. Generally these options depend on mixer capacity, cutting speed and handling systems. These leaves out moulds and autoclaves. Addition of moulds and autoclaves can be done easily without hampering your routine operations. So while planning, figure in these factors and select a plant with good expansion options. Last but not the least is product support from equipment vendor. This may be in form of production know-how, processes, product optimization, growth path, staff training etc. As most of you are aware, recipe (akaproduct mix) for AAC products is very critical and determines quality of final product. You can check with your vendor if hes willing to design and supply recipe optimized for raw materials available locally. A good vendor would also help you set up processes to ensure consistent production and recommend you other products that can be produced using same equipment or by adding some extra equipment.
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