Monday, February 8, 2010

Cheap Seals Exposed

All businesses face a constant struggle in our everyday business on the right balance between quality and costs. We ask ourselves, "How is it possible for other manufacturers to produce seals that are cheaper than ours? Have they found a secret formula that we do not know about?" We therefore set forth on a quest to satisfy our curiosity by visiting some of the security seals manufacturers in the market.

So we came by few manufacturer whose products were being made and sold by contract for a few well-known international brands. This factory manufactures ISO17712-compliant bolt seals and variable length seals.

Other manufacturer's QC checkpoint

ABRIC's QC checkpoint

To our surprise, the working environments for these factories are so laid back! Parts of incomplete seals lying everywhere in the assembly area, working hazards in the material store, quality control without proper control of quality.

Other Manufacturer's Material Store

ABRIC's Material Store

We learn that these manufacturing working conditions is not what ABRIC intend to be, and we are shocked to find this type of manufacturing environments is considered by some international brands as an acceptable environment to manufacture security seals.

After all, a security seal is a high-quality customized "security" product used to ensure that your brand reputation and products, worth thousands of times more than the seal, is not compromised.

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