Custom manufacturing, matched to the right factory for your product.

The first question is never how it looks; it is whether the target price is achievable at your quantity, delivered into Greece. Material cost, labour, tooling, freight volume and any duty set a hard floor. A sofa that must land at a certain price cannot carry a frame, a foam grade and a fabric that together exceed it, however good the design.

We run that arithmetic first, from real factory inputs, and tell you early if the concept needs to change — a different substrate, a simpler assembly, a knock-down structure that ships flat and fills a container properly. Skipping this step means months of drawings for a product that could never have been sold profitably.

Cost is a design input, not a result you discover at the end.

Factories do not price ideas; they price documents. A quote given against a photograph is a guess that will be corrected upwards later, or delivered as the cheapest interpretation available. The pack removes that: every dimension, board thickness, hinge model, finish code and carton.

It also makes competing quotes meaningful. Three factories quoting against one identical pack produce three comparable numbers. Three factories quoting against a conversation produce three different products at three different prices, and the cheapest is almost always the least specified.

Many first-time custom projects are quoted by trading companies presenting themselves as manufacturers. A trader is not always a problem, but you must know which you are dealing with, because a trader's quality is only as good as the workshop it subcontracts, and you cannot see it.

We verify who owns the machines, visit the plant and check that what runs on the floor matches what you are buying. A factory that excels at melamine cabinets is usually wrong for solid timber. Country matters too: an EU factory ships to Greece without customs, a non-EU one needs a correct TARIC classification and documents that survive a customs check.

Prototype phases fail when feedback arrives as opinions rather than instructions. We convert every comment into a numbered change with a responsible party and a date, and each new sample is assessed against that list only. Three rounds is usually enough; ten means the brief was never fixed.

Compliance runs alongside, not after: a door, window or stone product sold in Greece needs CE marking and a Declaration of Performance in Greek, and finding that out after production means a container you cannot legally sell or install. The output is a sealed, signed golden sample with its documents attached.

Feedback becomes a numbered change list, not a conversation.

Any factory can produce an impressive first run under attention. Consistency across the second, fifth and tenth order is what decides whether your product line survives, and it comes from documentation — locked specification, version control, retained golden sample, inspection at every run — not goodwill.

We also plan the unglamorous parts upfront: spare components so one broken part does not scrap a unit, packaging revised once real damage data exists — island deliveries show weaknesses fast — and a volume ladder that tells you what changes if your order doubles.