What happens when 300+ verified Chinese manufacturers meet buyers from 31+ countries? See the highlights from Haizol's June 2026 tour.
In June 2026, Haizol ran its most internationally diverse Supplier Discovery Tour to date. Over seven days across Shanghai and Shenzhen, manufacturing buyers from more than 31 countries sat down face-to-face with verified Chinese factories, split across a 300+ factory matchmaking day in Shanghai and dedicated visits across East China and the Greater Bay Area.
Most of these buyers came in with the same two concerns: can they trust an unfamiliar supplier, and will the parts actually meet specification. In a pre-arrival survey, 60% named trust in suppliers and 59% named quality risk as their biggest barriers to ordering more from Chinese manufacturers. The whole week was built around closing that gap: verified factories, structured matchmaking, and real floor visits, instead of another round of email quotes.
The centrepiece was 13 June, when more than 300 verified Chinese manufacturers showed up in Shanghai for a single day of Haizol-organised matchmaking, covering CNC machining companies, injection molding companies, sheet metal fabrication suppliers, metal stamping suppliers, metal casting companies, 3D printing companies, and precision assembly providers.
Because every factory in the room had already been through Haizol's verification process, buyers spent the day evaluating capability and readiness, not screening out unreliable names.
Europe sent the largest contingent, including companies from the UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Denmark, Switzerland, Finland, Turkey, Serbia, Latvia, and elsewhere in Central and Eastern Europe. Latin America was next, with Brazil, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Jamaica, and Antigua and Barbuda represented. Africa brought buyers from Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia, and Uganda, and the group rounded out with companies from the US, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan.
For many of these buyers, a video call and a stack of certificates only goes so far. Being able to walk a factory floor, meet the people running production, and ask pointed technical questions on the spot closes a trust gap no sales deck can. Several said as much afterward: they weren't just introduced to a supplier, they got to watch how that supplier actually works.
For the first time, the Haizol Supplier Discovery Tour split into two parallel tracks. One stayed close to Shanghai, covering Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, with stops in Suzhou, Hangzhou, Shaoxing, and Jiaxing, focused on CNC machining, injection moulding, sheet metal fabrication, die casting, and precision hardware.
The other took buyers south to Shenzhen, visiting CNC machining and sheet metal shops across the city's Longhua and Guangming districts and the wider Dongguan cluster. Between the two tracks, every buyer completed seven factory visits over the week, on top of the Shanghai matchmaking day.
The tour isn't built around collecting contacts. Every factory visit is matched in advance to what each buyer is actually trying to source, so the week ends with something more concrete than a stack of business cards.
"Every factory visit is pre-matched to each buyer's sourcing requirements, which is why attendees leave with RFQs in process, not just business cards," said Viktor Michel Häggström, Head of International Marketing at Haizol. "The majority of attendees left the June tour with RFQs already in process, and several received sample parts before even leaving the country."
Buyers also came away with a clearer read on Chinese manufacturing generally: quality standards, capacity, pricing, and where different factories specialise. A few said the trip surfaced product lines they hadn't previously thought to source from China at all.
The pattern from this edition matches what Haizol hears from buyers generally: interest in Chinese manufacturing hasn't cooled, but the bar for proof has gone up. Trust, quality, capability, and communication are still the questions procurement teams ask before they commit. Putting verified factories and buyers in the same room, on the ground, for a week, is Haizol's answer to that.
The Supplier Discovery Tour is one of the exclusive benefits for eligible buyers who register an account at Haizol. Sign-ups for the November 2026 edition has already started. Register your interest for the November 2026 tour today. Become a member at Haizol.
