Dear Sirs, in order to calculate the financial side for setting up my own business I need to ask you about some issues.
How much will a trial consignment cost, for example made of impact styrene materials, if I give my description or a draft proposal?
Does your company work with beginning sole traders?
Does your company complete small orders?
Do you arrange delivery of end products to the Rostov region?
Do you have available such a material as luminescent plastic or components for its fabrication?
Valentin Kupriyanov
Good afternoon, Valentin.
We are ready to cooperate with anyone addressing to us, including sole traders.
And you, if you’ve decided to begin working with plastic parts, should understand the technology of their manufacturing.
To your questions we can answer the following:
1. Casting of any plastic part needs a press mold (each part needs its own press mold).
2. So long as you need this part, it is you who have to pay for the press mold.
3. Press molds are expensive (beginning from 100,000 RUR and more, depending on the part complicacy). That is why while calculating you need to take into consideration that manufacturing development can make sense if the esteemed sales will be not less than 10,000 items per month and the full production – not less than 100-200 thousand items (the more are the sales, the less cost of the press mold will be included in the cost of one part). The press mold is capable of producing about 1,000,000 parts.
4. We can make a press mold for you (within our capability, see http://www.eng.pfp.ru/index28.htm). To make a press mold we need a drawing or a sample of a part.
5. The cost of a plastic part may be approximately calculated as: doubled cost of the used material + some part of the press mold cost + delivery cost + esteemed profit.
6. If you have a press mold, the size of a set of produced parts can be of any size, but it is reasonable to make sets not less than 1000 items, to have fewer losses for the launch.
7. Delivery of any consignment to Rostov or Shakhty today is not a problem because there are some quite reliable transportation companies. Delivery, of course, costs money.
8. Purchasing of materials also is not a problem if you know its brand and manufacturer (or its supplier). As for fluorescent (luminescent) plastics, we have not worked with them before but I don’t think that it will present much difficulty for us because we work with such heavy materials as polycarbonate, polyethyleneterephthalate and others. One of the variants may be producing the part from usual plastic and afterwards painting it with fluorescent dye. This variant may be also cheaper.
If you have any more questions, please, feel free to contact us through the email or by phone.
