How to buy and import construction materials from China
———–a complete guide
Why import construction materials from China?
Although the relative cost of manufacturing in China has risen in recent years, the country is still often the cheapest location for International retailers and manufacturers to source goods or parts. it is easy to find that many leading company in different industries set up their representative office or individual company in China for their more convenient purchasing, such as the Q-railing company in our railing and staircase business.
A successful production and manufacturer, always stand on the profit side of the user ,and in my opinion, this result could be attributed to the following reasons.
1. Cost
Many company are getting their products manufactured in China mostly comes down to labor cost, and Chinese people are actually some of the hardest working and cleverest people that you’ll ever meet. In other words, there are many countries in the world we can easily get the cheap labour cost, but it is hard to get as affordable as Chinese labour cost.
Excepting the labour cost, the China government have invested large money on infrastructure to support the local industrial development, not to say the capital and innovative technology support, so it can help to save the production cost on some level .
China and its factory is well know for have a robust scalable structure, and more over, because factories in China have manufactured so many different types of products over the years, they have some knowledge when it comes to how to actually manufacture this effectively, how to do it quickly and cheaply. familiarity not only speeds up the entire process, it also mean less mistake and cost. In conclusion, we have really honed being able to scale up with your product much more quickly with our developed crafty, and we are well prepared to and have been experienced with dealing with problems happens in large scale order.
2.Familiarity&Scalability&Speed
China and its factory is well know for have a robust scalable structure, and more over, because factories in China have manufactured so many different types of products over the years, they have some knowledge when it comes to how to actually manufacture this effectively, how to do it quickly and cheaply. familiarity not only speeds up the entire process, it also mean less mistake and cost. In conclusion, we have really honed being able to scale up with your product much more quickly with our developed crafty, and we are well prepared to and have been experienced with dealing with problems happens in large scale order.
3.Communication and distance problems are easy to resolve
A healthy business relationship is all about communication, people will worry about the language barrier happen during the international trading. Actually , English is the Compulsory course for Chinese students, and many modern forms of communication, such as voice calling ,Video chat, Instant Message allows us to stay in touch with supplier and factory from anywhere and even in the post-pandemic period.
4.Advanced technology and improved trade practices have seemingly overcome a lot of gaps
Actually, the international trading process have become very matured now,From payment , packing , shipping , to custom clearance, all these steps can be operated by us like a professional businessman since there is so many tool and company can handle this easily.
How to choose a reliable building materials supplier (especially railing and staircase stuff) from China?
China made products are highly preferred by importers. Importing construction materials from China though is not a tough process.
1. Online sourcing
For example , we can click the (staircase , railing ) into the search bar of Alibaba website, some of the staircase and railing suppliers will show up ,
| Zhaoqing Boton Imp. & Exp. Co.,Ltd | FoShan Transcend Metal Co.,Ltd | Zhaoqing Viko Metal Product Co.,Ltd | Shenzhen Prima Industry Co., Ltd. | Foshan Demose Hardware Products Co., Ltd. | Foshan Yigo Hardware Limited | Shenzhen Double Building Materials Co., Ltd. | ACE ARCHITECTURAL PRODUCTS CO LTD | Alland Building Materials (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd |
Just by checking the above suppliers’ list, we can find that the railing and staircase supplier are gathering in FOSHAN city and SHENZHEN city , both of the city is locating in Guangdong Province. Guangdong Province is the central hub for manufacturing wholesale building materials, particularly furniture,tiles ,sanitary wares and steel building materials.
It is well known that SHENZHEN is the international city which is sensitive to the new technology and new products, and FOSHAN is the production base for furniture,stainless steel and metal fabrication.
One of the most important thing we need to do , is analyzing if they are the trading companies or factories. If fact, there’s not a right or a wrong answer to work on the trading company or a factory, but this step can help us to understand which one you’re dealing with so you know what are their strengths and their weakness.
I have worked with plenty of good trading companies and i have worked with plenty of good factories. We can negotiate directly with the factory well since many of them have been equipped with the international trading department.
On the other hand, the trading company offering a very good service for that margin that they’re adding on , or sometimes a trading company is just very familiar with a lot of different factories so they know the strength of each factory and they know the right place to place our order and sometimes a trading company also specializes in that category so they can also reach out to factories making different items , a trading company can be your one-stop shop rather than having to deal with many different factories.
Except the online ways, of course we can choose to go to visit the trade show , wholesale market , trade shows , onsite checking will regian impotance after the covid-19 pandemic.
2.Wholesale Market
The collection of building materials suppliers in China is absolutely mind-blowing. Just by checking the suppliers’ directory, one can easily say that production of various products, particularly wholesale building materials, all are compartmentalized by city. One city serves as a cluster in the production of ceramic and non-ceramic sanitary wares while another city is filled with building materials suppliers of kitchen products and accessories.
Since we are locating at the FOSHAN city , i am going to recommend the following local useful wholesale market
- FOSHAN HUAYI Decoration Materials Market
Located at Jianyuan Road the biggest market for wholesale building materials offers a wide range of choices. Decorative materials like doors, window, partition, floor, lock, wallpaper, smallpox chandeliers, lamps, and other items needed for construction and renovation can easily be found in Foshan Huayi Decorations Materials Market.
- Casa Ceramics and Sanitary Wares Mall
Considered to be the most popular market for building materials, Casa Mall is a comprehensive trade procurement hub for products such as: architectural ceramics; sanitary ceramics;leisure sanitary ware;hardware and water accessories
- China Ceramics City
China Ceramic City lives up to its name. This 53,000-square meter building houses more than 140 domestic and foreign well-known brands, especially in sanitary ceramic products. The items displayed here are straight out of the factories. This is the place to go if you are seeking for wholesale building materials for your business.
- Sunlink Lighting and Kitchen Cabinet City
One can find home and office decors and materials here. The choices available here is so varied that any style or design for both the interior and exterior settings can surely find something in here. From indoor and outdoor lighting to kitchen materials to ceramic wares, buyers from all corners of the world flock to this 50,000 square area wholesale building materials hub to find some business and trading opportunities.
The last mall we really don’t want you to miss is the furniture mall-Shunde Furniture Mall, even though furniture is not my business, but many of the home owner, home builder love this place,and you will not regret to visit there, I love to walk around this furniture also only if i I have enough time .
