We are a matching service, not a machine shop
Buyers send drawings for EDC parts. We read them, shortlist the Vietnamese shops that genuinely fit, and come back with an itemised quote within 24 business hours. This page explains how that works, including the parts most sourcing sites leave vague.
A desk in Ho Chi Minh City, not a factory floor
There is a well-worn pattern in this industry: a sourcing agent builds a website that reads like a factory, complete with stock photos of machines it does not own, and the buyer only finds out who actually made the parts when the box arrives. We are not doing that.
We hold no machines and we cut no metal. What we hold is a working list of Vietnamese CNC shops that run small EDC batches, along with enough process knowledge to tell you before quoting that your 1 mm internal radius is what is making your part expensive.
If that sounds like less than a factory, it is also less risk. A factory sells you its own capacity whether or not your part suits it. A desk with six shops on the list can tell you your job belongs at a different one, or that it does not belong in Vietnam at all.
Six things a shop needs before it joins the network
These are the checks that actually predict whether an EDC order goes well. None of them is a certificate.
Three years of small-batch work
Not three years of existing. Three years of running jobs in the 25 to 500 piece range, where setup discipline and first-article care decide whether the parts are usable.
The materials, weekly
Titanium, 7075, 416, hardened tool steel handled as routine rather than as a favour. A shop that machines titanium twice a year is a shop learning on your order.
Finishing they control
In-house, or through a finisher they have used for years and will name. Stonewash, bead-blast, anodize. Finishing handoffs are where EDC schedules break.
Export experience
Shipments to the US, EU or Japan already made. Customs paperwork, air freight, and packing that survives transit are learned skills, not assumptions.
Someone who answers
A named person who replies in English inside two working days. The whole promise of this site to a buyer is an answer within 24 business hours, which a silent shop makes impossible.
Willing to quote 25 pieces properly
A shop that treats a small order as an annoyance produces exactly the variation that makes a brand doubt its own design.
What happens to the file you send
- It arrives with us. If you asked for an NDA, it is signed before the file is opened. Nothing moves until then.
- We read it. Material, tolerances, finish, the features that will fight the process. You hear about problems here, while changing them is still free.
- We shortlist two or three shops whose machines, materials and batch appetite fit. You see the shortlist described before any file is forwarded.
- Only shortlisted shops receive it, under the same NDA. Your drawing is never broadcast to a supplier list to see who responds.
- You get one itemised quote: material, machining, finish, packing, freight, within 24 business hours.
- Files are returned or destroyed on request, by us and by any shop that held them.
Questions about any of this before you upload anything? Write to .
How we are paid, stated plainly
We earn from the supplier side. The quote you see as a buyer is the shop's number with our sourcing work already accounted for, not the shop's number with a silent margin stacked on top.
We say this openly because the alternative, an undisclosed commission inside a quote you cannot break down, is the thing buyers are right to be wary of in this industry. Ask any sourcing agent how they are paid. If the answer is evasive, that is the answer.
The practical consequence for you: we have no incentive to inflate your quote, and a strong incentive not to send a shop a job it will lose money on. A shop burned by a badly matched order stops answering, and then we have nothing.
What the writing here will and will not do
- We do not publish photographs of parts we route. Not on this site, not anywhere.
- We do not name the shops in the network publicly. Buyers learn who made their parts once an order is placed.
- Numbers in the guides are ranges and rules of thumb, sourced from quoting real jobs. Where something is a starting point rather than a specification, it says so.
- When we get something wrong we correct the page and mark it updated, rather than quietly editing it.
- We have no affiliate links and take no payment for a mention. Outbound links go to reference sources, never to other sites we run.
Questions about how this works
- Are you a factory?
- No. We are an independent sourcing desk in Ho Chi Minh City. We hold no machines and we do not cut metal. What we hold is a working list of Vietnamese CNC shops that take small EDC batches seriously, and enough process knowledge to read a drawing before it goes to one.
- What does it cost a buyer?
- Nothing on top of the shop quote. You receive one itemised quote covering material, machining, finish, packing and freight, and you decide whether it works. There is no hidden margin added to the number you see.
- Then how are you paid?
- From the supplier side of the relationship. That is the honest answer and it is the reason we can say the buyer quote is not marked up. It also means we have an interest in sending shops work they can actually do well, because a shop that loses money on a badly matched job stops taking our enquiries.
- Who sees my drawing?
- Us first. Then only the two or three shops we shortlist, and only after you approve the shortlist. Your file is not broadcast to a list of suppliers to see who bites. Ask for an NDA and it is signed before the file is opened, by us and by any shop that sees it.
- What happens if the parts are wrong?
- We stay in it. The first order runs through us specifically so there is someone accountable when a first article does not fit or a finish comes out uneven. After the first order ships you can work with the shop directly if you prefer, and many buyers do.
- Why should I use you instead of contacting shops myself?
- If you already have a shop that runs your material at your batch size, you should not. This is useful when you do not, and when the alternative is five separate technical conversations with shops whose real capability you cannot verify from a website.
Send a drawing. Get matched with a supplier.
One RFQ, routed to the shops in the network that actually run your material, your finish and your batch size.
Every enquiry is answered within 24 business hours. Prefer email?