Verified Machine Sourcing

Distance is where import risk lives. What we check about a supplier and a machine before we recommend either, and what verification honestly cannot cover.

You cannot walk into a factory eight thousand kilometres away, and photographs prove very little. That distance is where import risk lives.

Is the supplier the manufacturer

The first question is the most useful one, and most buyers never ask it. A great many suppliers presenting themselves as factories are trading companies buying from someone else.

That matters beyond price. A trading company cannot answer a technical question properly, cannot supply parts reliably, and disappears when something needs resolving in month seven.

We establish which one you are dealing with before anything else.

Does the specification hold up

Brochures describe the best case. We press for the figures that decide whether a machine will do your work: output stated by material rather than a single flattering number, dimensions and tolerance, connected load in kilowatts, and what is included against what will be invoiced separately.

We also check that certification belongs to the manufacturer, covers the model you are buying, and is current. A certificate can be presented by a supplier who does not hold it.

Inspection where it is warranted

Where the value justifies it and inspection is available, we arrange it before despatch.

What verification cannot do

It reduces risk. It does not eliminate it, and any sourcing company telling you otherwise is selling you a feeling rather than a service.

What it does reliably is remove the failures that are avoidable: the wrong specification, the supplier who cannot support what he sold, the price that bore no relation to the market. Those account for most of what goes wrong.