Product Sourcing & Manufacturing
Factory sourcing services, cost negotiation, audits, tooling, and on-site quality control, everything you need to move from prototype to full-scale production.
Klugonyx offers factory sourcing services and product sourcing and manufacturing support for consumer brands that want reliable overseas manufacturing. Our team manages global sourcing, factory audits, cost negotiation, mold and tooling coordination, sampling, and on-site quality control so you can scale production with lower risk, better margins, and dependable quality.
Trusted by Startups and Fortune 500’s
Factory Sourcing Services for Consumer Brands
Instead of guessing your way through Alibaba, you can rely on a factory sourcing partner that already manages hundreds of trusted factories. Klugonyx provides factory sourcing services across China, Vietnam, Mexico, India, and other key manufacturing regions, matching your product with the right factory based on price, quality, timelines, and MOQs.
Our team works for you, not the factory, so you gain transparent quotes, clear expectations, and a long-term manufacturing partner that fits your brand’s goals.
Factory Sourcing, Quoting + Auditing
In the first phase of our product sourcing and manufacturing process, we focus on factory sourcing services that find the right partners for your product. Factory sourcing at Klugonyx starts with requesting quotes from factories both within and beyond our trusted network of more than 300 highly ranked partners. We carefully match your specific manufacturing needs with the right factories, balancing targets for price, quality, timelines, and order quantities.
Every factory we work with, whether a long term partner or a new connection, is thoroughly vetted. Once we narrow down the best options, we provide you with preliminary production quotes. With boots on the ground, we're often able to secure better pricing than remote teams.
- Factory audit and vetting reports
- Minimum order quantity requirements
- Estimated production timelines
- Preliminary factory quotes
- Comparative factory analysis
Cost Negotiation + Binding Factory Agreements
This is where Klugonyx acts as your contract manufacturing partner, negotiating costs and locking in legally binding factory agreements that protect your business and intellectual property. Factory agreements are a critical step in ensuring long term success with any manufacturing partner. At Klugonyx, we require factories to sign legally binding agreements that protect your business by locking in final pricing (once sampling is complete), order quantities, timelines, quality standards, and intellectual property.
At this stage, we also collaborate directly with your chosen factory team to confirm your product design files are accurate and production ready. Together, we explore opportunities to reduce costs by leveraging the factory’s expertise, such as identifying potential material substitutions or minor design adjustments, without compromising quality.
- Signed non-disclosure agreements, enforceable in the factory’s country of origin
- Negotiation of materials, labor, total cost, and minimum order quantities
- Legally binding factory agreement covering cost, timelines, and quality standards
Factory Engineering Refinement + Mold Tooling
Engineering Refinement & Mold Creation: During product refinement and mold creation, we take the feedback received from the factory during the agreement stage and, in collaboration with you, make any necessary changes. Design and engineering files are updated accordingly. While most adjustments are minor, they often deliver significant value by maximizing manufacturing efficiency and reducing overall production costs.
For soft goods, custom molds are typically not required. However, for all custom hard goods, molds and tooling are essential to bring your product to life. If needed, this process begins at this stage. The factory fine-tunes your product design files while mold tooling is developed in parallel, ensuring production can begin as smoothly and efficiently as possible.
- Design and engineering refinements at the factory level
- Final approved design and engineering adjustment files
- Mold/Tooling creation, if required
Sampling + Quality Control Standards
Product Sampling: During the sampling phase, the Klugonyx team on the ground works closely with your factory to create a series of product samples, leading to your final production-ready sample, often called the “golden sample.” It is completely normal for factories to produce multiple rounds of samples before achieving the perfect result. Throughout this process, we also ensure that quality standards are clearly defined and fully understood by the factory.
Once your final sample is approved, the retainer phase officially concludes, and you are ready to place your first full production order with your new factory partner.
- Two or more sample iterations completed
- Quality control standards fully established
- Final production-ready “golden sample” approved
Production + Quality Assurance
Production and On-Site Quality Assurance: Once you place your first order, you will never pay another retainer fee. We help facilitate your order directly with the factory, and once production begins, the Klugonyx team on the ground oversees the process to ensure timelines are met and quality issues are caught early before they become costly problems.
Without dedicated quality control, you risk receiving an order with a high defect rate that may only be discovered once it arrives at your door. This can be devastating for any brand, especially startups. By partnering with Klugonyx, you eliminate this risk and gain peace of mind knowing your products will be delivered on time and at the high quality your customers expect and love.
- Order placement facilitation
- Detailed production scheduling
- On-site quality control inspections
- On-site production management
- Final post-production quality check
Enjoy a streamlined, stress-free product journey with one connected team guiding your design, engineering and manufacturing from start to finish - saving you time and money!
Next Steps
With your production done and approved by our quality assurance team, you're ready to ship your product. Our team will help you manage packaging, freight bookings, tariffs, and customs paperwork to get your product delivered safely.
Global Manufacturing Expertise Across Materials, Processes, and Industries
As a contract manufacturing partner, Klugonyx manages overseas manufacturing for a wide range of consumer products. Our factory network covers key materials like plastics, silicone, metals, woods, fabrics, glass, and ceramics, and supports manufacturing processes such as injection molding, blow molding, compression molding, cut and sew, casting, CNC, extrusion, and additive manufacturing.
This breadth of experience allows us to match your product with factories that already understand your category, whether you are launching baby products, toys, outdoor gear, home goods, furniture, pet products, or wellness products.
From food grade silicone, to aerospace grade metals, and everything in between.
Whether you’re looking for 3D printing, cut & sew, or injection molding, or something else, Klugonyx has got you covered.
Klugonyx brings experience across a wide range of consumer product industries and is always excited to take on new challenges.
Client Case Studies
Product Sourcing and Factory Sourcing FAQs
If you have high-quality product design documents that are clear and easy for factories to understand, then quotes typically take about 2 weeks.
Minimum order quantities (MOQs) vary depending on the product complexity, factory expertise, and between the country the factory is located in. Asian factories (especially those in China) are usually willing to negotiate lower minimum order quantities in the hundreds of units whereas other regions expect orders to be in the thousands of units.
Even the world's best factories and top brands have a level of defects created during manufacturing. The Klugonyx quality control team estblished strict QC guidelines with you before we begin production. Once manufacturing starts, our QC team visits your factory in-person to ensure your defect rate remains at or below 2%. If many defects are discovered, we hold the factory accountable to redo the defective batch at no cost.
No. We sign strict legally-binding contracts with all our factory partners we work with to ensure your product designs are not stolen or copied. However, we cannot control factories outside our network or other brands from copying your designs, especially if you are selling on Amazon. The best way to protect yourself is with a patent.
