From a factory in China to a product on the shelf
CIN.IL handles the work with the manufacturer, the samples, production and quality control, and coordinates shipping, customs and the specialists needed in Israel. When a product also needs a name, packaging, photography and a launch, it can carry on into the group’s brand and marketing capability.
Most people importing from China work with a chain of separate parties: an agent in China, a freight forwarder, a customs broker, a designer and an ad agency. Each is responsible for their piece, and things fall between the pieces.
Here both sides sit inside one body: the work with the factory is done in its own language and with the same people throughout the project, and the support in Israel — clearance, warehousing, selling — continues after the container has been unpacked.
The group’s own hair-extension brands are imported the same way. That is not a sales argument: it is the reason we know what happens when an approved sample does not match what arrived, and what a full warehouse that is not moving is worth.
You can take the whole sequence, or enter at a single stage: vetting a supplier you have already found, a pre-shipment inspection on an order already in production, or only the commercial side for a product that is already in the country.
- 01
Factory sourcing and negotiation
Finding the manufacturer that fits the product, separating a real manufacturer from a trading company, background checks, and running the negotiation. It ends with an English specification, a comparison table with a stated reason for every rejection, and a background-check file.
- 02
Product development and sampling
From definition to a signed, approved sample kept as the reference point — packaging included.
- 03
Production and quality control
A written standard agreed before production starts, an inspection by our own people in China before the container is sealed, and a report with measurements and photographs.
- 04
Import into Israel
Full landed-cost calculation, route selection, checking the documents before they are issued, clearance and warehousing.
- 05
Brand and launch
Name, packaging, photography, product page, campaign and measurement.
The inspections we carry out ourselves are our inspections.
Laboratory testing, where a product requires it, is done through an external laboratory — we are not a laboratory and not a certifying body. Shipping itself is done by a freight forwarder and clearance by a licensed customs broker; we coordinate and check them, we do not replace them. We are not lawyers. The binding determination on a customs classification belongs to the Israel Tax Authority.
Quality control reduces risk. It does not remove it, and a supplier who tells you otherwise is selling you something else.
- A kitchen rack · Barzel & Ben, Holon The client arrived with a sample bought at a trade fair and wanted their own version, in a different gauge and a different finish. The brief began with one question: how much weight the rack has to hold without bending. Four factories were approached, two sent samples, and after a second round the weld that opened under test was changed. The customs classification was checked before the order, not after.
- Branded vacuum cups · Namal 9 coffee shops The product here was off the catalogue and the work was all in the packaging and the print. Two-colour printing on a stainless body behaves differently from a render on a screen, so one printed sample was ordered before the artwork was signed off. The first shade did not survive the test and was replaced.
- A garden tool set · Tamar Vardi Nursery Three tools in one box, sold as a gift. The product itself was simple; the box took the time, because it had to survive sea freight without crushing. The board was changed for a heavier grade after a sample arrived damaged.
An introductory call
Thirty to forty-five minutes, at no cost. It is not where factories get found or Chinese quotes get issued — it is where we work out whether there is a project here at all.