How to Choose A Right Phone Case Manufacturer

There are a large number of phone case manufacturers in the world, especially in Asia, where many factories are gathered. Choosing a suitable manufacturer as your reliable partner in the phone case business has become more difficult than before.

But I hope this article can provide you with some help and relieve your worries.

When looking for a phone case manufacturer, your needs may be one of the following situations:

1. You are looking for some ready-made, excellent products to supplement your product line or start your business.

2. You want to customize the phone case according to your own design or idea.

If your needs are the first situation, and there are no clear requirements for the style, and there are many SKUs but relatively small quantities, I suggest you spend more time looking for a trading company. Most phone case manufacturers only focus on a few series they are good at, so the product selection range is not wide, and usually requires a larger minimum order quantity. Trading companies can integrate more supply resources and needs, provide a wider range of products, and more flexible minimum order quantities. They will complete your order well, saving you a lot of time and resources, although the price may be slightly higher. In this way, you can focus more on marketing.

If your demand is the first situation, but you have a clear demand for the style, and the quantity is large, such as you need 1,000 pieces of each style and each color, or your demand is the second point, then you must find a suitable manufacturer, because this way you will get a better price and quality guarantee. This is the pain point that this article can solve for you.

A suitable mobile phone case manufacturer should have the following characteristics:

1. Located in South China

Especially the four cities of Shenzhen, Dongguan, Guangzhou and Foshan in Guangdong Province. Although many people feel that Chinese factories are too far away from them, or don’t believe them for some reason.

But it is undeniable that China is the only country in the world with a full industrial chain, and basically all industrial chains have scale advantages and mature talent systems, so the cost will be much lower, the supply efficiency will be faster, and the after-sales service of the product can also be guaranteed. These cities are the places where mobile phone case factories are most concentrated, and their total supply accounts for at least 90% of the global market.

2. With R&D Team

Having an R&D team shows that the factory intends to operate for a long time, not just to make quick money.

R&D team means rich industry experience, problem-solving ability, and innovation ability, which is very important for buyers with customized requirements, private brands, or even international sellers.

3. Ability to make molds or tools

Although China’s industrial chain is very mature, many factories outsource their molds or tools. This can save more manpower and investment for the factory, but it is not a good thing for buyers, because once there is a problem with the mold or tool customized by the buyer, the factory may not be able to solve it by itself, but must rely on outsourced suppliers, which has the risk of information leakage and longer time to solve the problem.

For customized products that are eager to go on the market, such as those prepared for the upcoming iPhone, there is a great risk. If the factory has its own mold and tool manufacturing capabilities, these risks can be well avoided.

4. Sufficient production capacity

Generally speaking, mobile phone case factories claim that their production capacity is very high, such as 100,000 or 300,000 per day, or even more.

Please don’t believe it completely, and 30-50% should be subtracted from this number.

It can’t be said that they are lying, but they are talking about full capacity, which is the ideal production capacity under the premise that the machine and mold are completely trouble-free and all serve you. But this is impossible to achieve in any factory. There will always be various emergencies in the production process, such as poor mold exhaust, incomplete drying of raw materials, poor control of finished product defect rate, etc. In addition, the factory must prepare a part of the machine for trial production samples or debugging new molds, as well as on-demand deployment.

Therefore, before you decide to cooperate with a phone case manufacturer, you must understand their actual production capacity and evaluate whether it can also meet your needs.

5. Quality control ability

If you ask any factory, how is your quality? They will all say “Our quality is very good.” They are all telling the truth because in their opinion, they all think that their quality is very good. However, the problem is that each factory has different perceptions and standards for quality.

To save costs and speed up production efficiency, some factories only occasionally conduct random inspections during the production process, that’s all. Of course, in this case, the price is usually more favorable. If you can determine that their quality can meet your requirements through some samples, this will be a good choice.

On the other hand, some factories will do more inspections, such as arranging quality inspectors to conduct full inspections before shipment and reject defective products to ensure that the delivered products meet the standards. Such factories have their own quality standards, which are usually stricter than customer requirements. They will even remove defective products that are not so obvious that customers cannot find them.

Evaluating and selecting the right factory is a time-consuming task that requires sufficient communication and information collection. Of course, sometimes some personal emotions are mixed in.

But in general, understanding the above characteristics can help you quickly screen out unsuitable phone case manufacturers, so that you have more time to further evaluate and screen potential qualified manufacturers. I hope these sharings can help you solve the troubles in choosing mobile phone case manufacturers and find a reliable partner for your phone case business.