Holmes: Springfree Kept Proprietary Parts Local While Moving Steel to China
Steve Holmes · Springfree Trampoline: Keith Alexander & Steve Holmes · Apr 1, 2019 · at 39:08
Steve Holmes, co-founder of Springfree Trampoline, describes how the company safeguarded its proprietary intellectual property while migrating assembly to China.
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“Even to this day, most of the original Manufacturing components, the rods and the net material that we use, we're using the exact same manufacturing partners. They've come a long way, the whole way through the whole journey. We've never deviated from that, but we moved all of the steel and a hundred percent of the labor associated with producing an assembly into China.”
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