Why Choose Onshore Fastener Manufactures

Fasteners are very important for any manufacturing, production, maintenance, and repair or overhaul process. They have to hold things together even in the most adverse of conditions and if any problem or quality issue arises in fasteners, it can snowball into a very big and complicated issue. While many companies do offshore production of fasteners and claim to offer their products at very attractive prices, many times the pricing ends up being too good to be true. If you really care about the products that you manufacture or maintain, you should really choose onshore fastener manufacturers.

They bring a number of advantages ranging from the sheer variety in the form of their ability to manufacture different types of fasteners to the commitment to quality that is reflected in both their compliance to strict quality and environmental regulations that apply to companies operating in North America. Here are some key factors why a local manufacturer should be given priority in consideration.

Location Advantages

First and biggest is the set of advantages that arise out of the sheer proximity of the local fastener manufacturers.

• You can visit the manufacturer in person to check if they are just making tall claims or do they actually have the ability to deliver on the claims they are making. Traveling within North America is not only faster but also much cheaper than having to fly across continents to some far off place in Asia.

• You can visit the manufacturer to coordinate with them about the equipment and staff assigned to your production order. Many times, offshore vendors will show a completely different setup at the time of sales pitch and will actually do the work on different equipment manned by different staff. This can lead to compromises in the quality of production. With an onshore vendor, you can visit any time and check the production line yourself.

• A local manufacturer is not as vulnerable to supply chain issues as compared to an off shore supplier. Not only will the offshore vendor be vulnerable on the supply side but also the sourcing side. With a local vendor you can have different types of fasteners manufactured and shipped to your location without any issues that plague a global supply chain.

Legal and Other Advantages

Second is the set of indirect advantages that a local manufacturer has over any offshore supplier.

• A local vendor will generally employ staff that has been educated and trained in North America. Considering that the education and qualification level of the people who are employed by a local firm is much higher than an offshore manufacturer.

• Intellectual Property Rights protection and enforcement is a big concern with offshore manufacturers. You can provide them with specific designs and types of fasteners and there is not much preventing them from copying your IP and setting up a second production flow undercutting your quality products on a cost basis. On the other hand in most of the developed world, especially in North America the framework for compliance with IPR is very rugged and reliable so your IP remains in safe hands.

• Environmental and regulatory compliance out of North America is also more or less paperwork. The enforcement on ground is just for show. Many businesses have commitments to source their supplies from compliant firms. Fastener manufacturers in North America are much more reliable in this regard.

• An offshore supplier will generally be subject to the legal system in their country which means if need for litigation arises, this can be a big problem. The legal system in that country may be malleable to support local companies. On the other hand litigation and arbitration systems in North America are much more principled and do not bend the rules and laws but rather follow them to.

John Scott content writer and digital marketing graduate. Write about business tip, tech, technology topics.