Inside the workshopA small flashlight shop in Ninghai, still here after a decade
We started in 2013 in Qiaotouhu, which sits just outside Ninghai town. People here have made flashlights for decades, so finding plastic molders and a button supplier within a few streets was never the hard part. The hard part was getting solar panels that didn't quietly lose half their output after a year in the sun.
For the first couple of years we mostly did plain torches. The solar and hand-crank emergency lights came later, after a buyer in Kenya kept asking us for something that worked when the grid didn't. Now that's most of what we make. The workshop is about 4,800 square meters and we are 55 people, give or take the seasonal help around the busy autumn months.
I won't pretend we're a giant. We're a mid-size shop that knows its product. If your order is reasonable and your spec is clear, we'll likely be a good fit, and if it isn't, Leo or Nina will tell you honestly instead of taking the deposit and figuring it out later.
