It’s a month full of fasteners, travel and seeing long-term clients as we bop around the South, Southwest and Texas. Want us to drop by? Just drop us a call or email!
It’s See You In September, and that means we need to be on the road visiting someone, somewhere, to help source bearing, fasteners, machined STRESSPROOF steel, castings and a bunch of other stuff out of Vietnam, Turkey, Eastern Europe, India, and, well, you get the idea.
Here’s our September sourcing meeting schedule:
Yep, we’ll be at the International Fastener Expo in Las Vegas on September 21, 2021 through September 23, 2021 to meet with whoever actually shows up, we hear it’s going to be a bit dead this year due to COVID concerns. Still, should be a good event and we hope to touch base with a few people we know and even more that we don’t, expand our reach into the world of fastener sourcing - whether it’s capscrews or AREMA railway fasteners.
On that note, if you’re looking for fastener sourcing outside of China, we may be able to help. We’re just currently moving to purchase order on an EAU-based fastener supply for an industrial parts distributor that’s fed up dealing with the promise-but-don’t-deliver service of a major fastener supplier you know (and probably don’t love). Obviously it needs to be significant quantities to order fasteners factory direct, but probably less than you think, and we have the contacts and the knowledge to get it done, so get in touch.
Atlanta, we have a few visits scheduled, including wrapping up the first year of a fee-based contract that has resulted in several hundred thousand dollars worth of annual savings (after our fee, which ain’t that much) re-sourcing parts for a particular kind of construction machinery. For this client, we sourced everything from hats to cast pieces, and bearings to bolts, to recreate an independent supply chain outside China, ranging from Turkey to Eastern Europe to Thailand. If you’re interested in paying up front to own your supply chain, that’s a service we offer - we give full transparency and keep nothing on the back end. Learn more on that here.
Corpus, just a quick one day visit to discuss valves, bearings and fasteners with some people down in the ag & oil patch who use a lot of valves, bearings and fasteners. We can bring those out of a few places, including India, where you don’t have to pay tariffs and where logistics costs - currently over $20,000 FEU / per container - are less than half from, say, Chennai. If you’re around the average container cost of $50,000 for industrial parts, we can cut $10,000 or more off of your shipping bill coming out of India compared to East Asia - just ask.
Otherwise, very busy month visiting manufacturing partners as well, but more on that later.
If you need to get your sourcing out of China, call us at +1-832-919-6774 or email info@motoa.group. We can usually help, and if we can’t we’ll just tell you. It’s refreshingly honest, something our clients come to expect from us.