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Who owns the claim, who operates the line and who signs the acceptance record?
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Industrial sourcing, China to Europe
Know the machine
before you buy it.
We source, verify and inspect industrial machinery in China for European buyers. Every claim gets a source, every risk gets a name, and every cost gets its own line.
EU-first commercial advice3-8% based on service level10 steps from brief to handover
Illustrative sourcing sceneThe promise
Sourcing should feel like seeing more, not trusting more.
A sourcing agent should reduce information asymmetry, not become another layer of it. We show the reasoning, the alternatives and the unresolved parts before you decide.
Field evidence
Look closer
before you go larger.
Factory visits are useful only when they turn observations into evidence a buyer can act on.
Factory visit / evidence file
Production
What is running today, what is staged for visitors and what can be demonstrated?
Paper trail
Which specification, drawing, invoice and inspection point refer to the same machine?
Observation becomes useful when it is named, dated and attached to a decision.
What we do
One route.
Five visible stages.
From the first machine brief to delivery, each stage ends with something you can inspect, approve or reject.
Define
Turn purpose, material, output, voltage and budget into a brief a factory can answer.
Source
Find viable factories and compare the Chinese option against the real alternatives.
Verify
Check the company, machine, claims, components, commercial terms and open risks.
Inspect
Test against written acceptance criteria before the final payment is released.
Land
Show freight, duty, VAT, commissioning and site costs as separate numbers.
Candour as a service
The brochure says 1,000.
The machine says 960.
A QT4-15 forms four standard blocks per cycle. At a claimed 15-second cycle, its physical ceiling is 960 blocks per hour before downtime, batching or pallet changes.
We do not need to call the factory dishonest. We need to show the arithmetic and ask for the real operating rate.
Claim reviewQT4-15
4×3,600÷15
Physical ceiling960 / hr
Vendor headline 1,000 / hrNeeds correction
The verification file
Six questions that keep a cheap machine from becoming an expensive mistake.
Factory
Who is actually building it?
Machine
Can its own numbers agree?
Material
Will your input work on this line?
Compliance
Can it enter and operate in the EU?
Inspection
What must pass before release?
Landed cost
What does ownership really cost?
Inspect the component
A claim is not a measurement.
Translate the sales promise into observable checkpoints: component identity, stated tolerance, test method and acceptance record.
- Trace the component
- Name the tolerance
- Record the method
- Keep the deviation open
Illustrative inspection detailA real decision, made smaller
Test the material.
Then shortlist the machine.
“Wood fibre mixed with cement, not sand.”
A standard QT vibropress is built around dry aggregate. Wood fibre may behave differently. Before putting a buyer in front of a €40k machine, the useful next step is a sample block pressed on the candidate factory's own line with the buyer's actual material.
Before €40k assumption→After A small test with evidence
How it works
The full sourcing process.
Without the theatre.
The public process is part of the product. You know what happens next, what you approve and what each decision depends on.
Define
Turn purpose, material, output, voltage and budget into a brief a factory can answer.
Source
Find viable factories and compare the Chinese option against the real alternatives.
Verify
Check the company, machine, claims, components, commercial terms and open risks.
Inspect
Test against written acceptance criteria before the final payment is released.
Land
Show freight, duty, VAT, commissioning and site costs as separate numbers.
Transparent pricing
More support,
more responsibility.
Never a mystery margin.
3-8%of factory goods value
The exact percentage depends on the service level, risk and responsibility in the agreed scope.
- €1,500 minimum engagement
- Minimum credited against the percentage fee
- Freight shown separately
- Agent model available now
- Reseller track quoted on separate written terms
Landed-cost anatomy
Factory goods+Freight+Duty+VAT+Commissioning
Five visible lines. No blended margin.Verified tariff0%
EU third-country duty on TARIC 8474 80 90 00
Application date20.01.27
EU Machinery Regulation after the corrigendum
Worked VAT example€43,617
Import VAT on a €200k FOB machine example
Working homepage copy based on research dated 20 August 2026. Legal and tariff content is re-verified before publication.
Straight answers
Questions serious buyers ask.
Do you always recommend buying from China?+
No. Sometimes a used European machine is the better buy. The work is to make the comparison explicit, not to defend one origin.
What determines whether the fee is 3% or 8%?+
The agreed service level, project risk and how much responsibility sits with us. The exact rate is written into the scope before work begins.
Can you guarantee a machine will be EU compliant?+
No credible sourcing agent should make that blanket promise. We can verify documents, components, standards and inspection criteria, identify gaps and coordinate specialist review where needed.
Start with the machine
Describe the job.
We will test the premise.
Enough detail to start a serious conversation. No generic “contact us” form.