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Name a Chinese supplier. We verify who they really are, score them on quality, capacity, compliance, price, export record and financial strength, and tell you whether and how to buy.

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What you send us

  • The company name

    Chinese or English, as you know it. It is the only thing we need.

  • Its website or address

    If you have it.

  • The product you want to buy

    Name, grade or CAS number, if you have them.

  • Your questions

    Choose from our standard questions and add your own.

What we check

  • Manufacturer or trader?
  • Registration and legal status
  • Certificates currently valid?
  • Risk signals
  • Capacity for the volume you need, if you tell us
  • Your own questions

The full report covers

The company

  • Founding and history
  • Company overview

Scale and operations

  • Revenue, last three years
  • Cost drivers
  • Cost changes, last three years
  • Domestic and overseas footprint

Products

  • Product catalogue and capacity
  • Core products
  • Sales-to-production ratio, per product
  • Product development pipeline

Market position and rivals

  • Position in the global market
  • International benchmark companies
  • Strengths and weaknesses vs international leaders
  • China market share
  • Domestic competing companies
  • Strengths and gaps vs domestic rivals

Customers and exports

  • Domestic channels and customers
  • Export markets
  • Distributors by country

Risk

  • Legal risk

How we grade the evidence

Verified
Backed by a source other than the company itself (a registry, a government notice, an official filing) and tied to this company.
Candidate
Found in third-party material, but not yet confirmed to belong to this company.
Supplier-stated
The company says so (its website, brochure, trade-fair stand or marketplace shop). Not a warning: just not independently confirmed.
Searched, not found
We searched the sources listed and found nothing. This does not mean it does not exist.

A report, up close

A sample factory check

Sample
Manufacturer or trader?

The company says it produces formic acid; its registered business scope includes manufacturing. Actual production was not independently confirmed.

Supplier-stated
How large is the business, and how is it performing?

Revenue was 1.2 billion yuan in 2025, up 6% on the year before, with a net profit of 85 million yuan. Its annual report lists formic acid capacity of 60,000 tonnes a year.

Verified
Who does it sell to, at home and abroad?

Its 2025 annual report puts overseas sales at about 30% of revenue, mainly to South Korea, Vietnam and India. Its five largest customers took 41% of sales.

Verified

Sample. All names and figures in this excerpt are fictional.

What you get

A written report, every answer graded by its evidence. Each answer shows where it came from and how strong the evidence is, and the report says what we could not find.

We email it to you when it's ready, attached or as a link.

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