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The title is not original to the article. Claiming she is "exploiting cheap labor" is rather misleading. To quote a section of the article:
The other option, the one Trump wants, is a pipe dream: manufacturing her products in the US. Benike would prefer to manufacture here, too. But a mountain of logistics, near impossibilities, stand in her way.
Food-grade silicone, which she uses for her products, is not available domestically. When she looked into the cost of importing the material when she first started, it was more expensive than importing a finished product, and the prices have gone up since then. Manufacturing facilities in the US with the compression mold machines she needed require much larger runs than she can commit to. The minimum requirements for factories here was 20,000 – in China, she could do a couple thousand at a time.
So she admits that it would cost more to do it here in the US due to labor standards & you're sympathizing that she can avoid labor standards & do it for cheaper in China?
No, dipshit. US manufacturing isnt at a scale large enough to have a solid low-volume industry, period. Shut up and learn to read.
Maybe learn to do a little research to see when someone is a grifter like the Busy Baby CEO:
https://www.protolabs.com/services/injection-molding/liquid-silicone-rubber-molding/
You've provided no proof other than that is what she is claimed. Show me what effort she actually put into doing it in America. You're so gullible.
Food-grade silicone, which she uses for her products, is not available domestically. When she looked into the cost of importing the material when she first started, it was more expensive than importing a finished product, and the prices have gone up since then. Manufacturing facilities in the US with the compression mold machines she needed require much larger runs than she can commit to. The minimum requirements for factories here was 20,000 – in China, she could do a couple thousand at a time.
Making the molds for her products takes about two months. They also are made in China – many American manufacturers send American steel to China to makemolds because they’re better at it there, she said. The molds alone would cost up to $75,000 in the US. If she found a factory and the capital needed to get it all going, it would still take a minimum of four months until she had products ready to sell, she estimated.
“It’s financially impossible for me to manufacture here. But even if I had an angel that just dropped a million dollars in my lap, it doesn’t make sense as a business model for how much we would have to charge for the product and charge the consumer,” she said. “It doesn’t make any sense. So I wish I understood the big picture, or how they expect us to pivot in this tiny window of time. I don’t understand, I just don’t understand this.”
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You really can’t read and are hell bent on putting the screws to someone who is a SBO manufacturing in China. Go be pissed at WalMart, not this lady you troll.
Where are you getting that food-grade silicone isn't available domestically? That simply isn't true in any way whatsoever:
https://specialtyresin.com/products/cast-a-mold-platinum-food-grade
Also, where are you getting 2 months to make a mold? Show me the actual attempts she made to have it done somewhere other than China. All you've told me thus far is that deep down you believe in de-regulation & lowering minimum wage here in the US.
Oh, look at this, low-production silicone parts available within days & even in the state where she lives:
https://www.protolabs.com/services/injection-molding/liquid-silicone-rubber-molding/
Everything out of this woman's mouth has been a lie. You should see her house... maybe she should sell a few acres instead of complaining about not being able to exploit cheap labor. Given the number of flags in front of her house though, she may have actually voted for Trump.