I have a potential new project to be installed Hong Kong, PCBs and some parts will be coming from China, so seems insane to ship to the UK, pay VAT, pay UK assembly costs (+VAT) and ship back again....
The part to be manufactured is a 15x175mm LED strip, standard 1.6mm PCB, all SMD, 3 LEDs on one side, 17 parts on the other. Nothing fancy, finest pitch 0.65mm. We will arrange supply of critical parts, including preprogrammed PICs.
Quanity will be about 18K strips in one batch, and turnround for PCB+assembly needs to be about 6 weeks.
Assembled boards to be delivered as panels, though we may investigate getting final assembly done there if we find someone we get good vibes about.
We are not looking for a rock-bottom price - even if the assembly cost is the same as in the UK it would still be worth it. Reliability, good communication and good attitude are the most important factors - we have an immovable deadline and only one chance to get it right!
I'm looking for recommendations from anyone who has recently/regularly used an assembly house in SZ or HK for comparable jobs that they'd be happy to recommend.
Please PM.