Capacity
Sourcing second-hand machinery for a small Bangladeshi workshop
Most of the firms in this directory did not start with new machines. They started with a lathe someone else was finished with.
Editorial
Insights
Practical notes for small Bangladeshi manufacturers: buying used machinery, clearing surplus stock, reading verification badges, and getting to a first export order.
Trust
What "verified" actually means in a Bangladeshi marketplace
A green checkmark is not a fact. It is a compressed claim about a specific check someone ran, and the check is usually narrower than the badge implies.
Operations
Clearing surplus stock and samples without undercutting your export buyers
Every export order leaves residue: overruns, rejected lots, discontinued samples. Warehousing it is the most expensive option and the most common one.
Growth
From domestic resale to a first export order
Nobody's first export order arrives because they wanted one. It arrives because a buyer could find them, price them and check them without a phone call.