Incoming material
Resin batch, wire diameter, blank straightness. Rejected lots go back before they touch a line.
The factory
A workshop that grew up,
A workshop that grew up,
and kept the workshop habits.
Bluefin Tackle started in 2009 with two rod-wrapping benches and one customer in Busan. We now run 18,000 m² in Weihai, and that first customer still orders every season.
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Where it started
Two benches, one blank supplier, and a stubborn idea.
The idea was simple: stop buying blanks from whoever had stock that month, and learn to build them. In 2013 we installed our first mandrel line. In 2017 we added the CNC shop so a new lure body would not wait three months behind another factory's queue.
Today we still keep a bench on the floor that does nothing but prototype work. It is the most expensive square metre we own and the reason our sampling runs at 10 days instead of a month.
Capacity
What the floor can actually absorb.
Published monthly output at normal staffing, not peak-season fantasy numbers.
| Line | Monthly capacity | Tooling lead time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rod assembly | 38,000 pcs | 15–20 days | Carbon and glass blanks, own mandrel line |
| Rod blanks | 52,000 pcs | 20 days | IM6 / IM8 / glass, painted or raw |
| Reel assembly | 26,000 pcs | 25 days | Spinning, baitcasting, trolling |
| Hard lures | 180,000 pcs | 18 days | ABS injection, in-house moulds |
| Soft lures | 420,000 pcs | 12 days | TPE / PVC, phthalate-free option |
| Hooks & terminal | 2.4 M pcs | 10 days | Chemical sharpening, black nickel |
| Line spooling | 95,000 spools | 8 days | Custom spool print and label |
Quality
Checkpoint 01
Checkpoint 02
Checkpoint 03
Checkpoint 04
Four checkpoints, no skipped paperwork.
Line-side
Three stations per line, first-piece approval and hourly spot checks recorded on paper and photo.
Lab testing
Drag rig, salt-spray chamber, cross-hatch paint tests. Reports filed against the batch code.
Pre-shipment
AQL 2.5 inspection with your checklist, or a third-party inspector of your choosing. We do not object.
Compliance
Documents you can hand to a buyer.
Certificates, audit reports and material declarations are kept current and sent as PDF within one working day of a request.
- Quality systemISO 9001:2015
- Social auditBSCI, 2-year cycle
- Material testingSGS · Intertek
- Lure complianceCE · REACH
- PackagingFSC board on request
Come and look
Video walk-through, live, on request.
Ten minutes on a call with the line supervisor, cameras on the floor. No edited footage.
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