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These articles are written for brands and buyers who source luggage from a factory. Each one answers a question that comes up before or during an order, and they fall into four groups: working with a factory (quotes, MOQ, samples, tooling, payment and lead time), products and materials (full aluminum, aluminum frame, PC and PP, and the wheels, locks and handles that go on them), quality and testing (inspection, AQL and test reports), and compliance and markets (labelling, safety rules, tariffs and export packing for the US, EU, UK and Canada). Written from our factory in Houjie, Dongguan.
How Can We Customize Carrying Cases for Professional Use? From Product Displays to On-Site Services
See how Aluvox customizes carrying cases for product displays, tools, equipment, and on-site services, from case formats and interiors to sample development.
How Can You Customize an Aluminum Suitcase with a Front Pocket?
Use Aluvox TS-003 to plan a custom front-pocket aluminum suitcase, from laptop layouts and material choices to padding, closures, colors, and branding.
Repairable Aluminum Luggage: Spare Parts for Brands
Plan after-sales support for your aluminum luggage range with Aluvox: match replacement parts to each model, arrange spare stock or later shipments, and confirm installation and delivery requirements.
Trunk Luggage vs. Clamshell Luggage: A Guide for Brands
Compare deep-compartment and clamshell luggage layouts using Aluvox TS-005 and YCT-053. See how packing, opening space and interior choices affect a new model for your brand or wholesale range.
Customizing the BA0332 Aluminum Briefcase Interior: Document Storage, Dividers, and Fitted Inserts
Explore how document storage, dividers, and fitted inserts can shape a BA0332 briefcase interior for business users, brands, and wholesale buyers.
Hinomoto Luggage Wheels: A Selection Guide for Aluminum Cases
Planning aluminum luggage with Hinomoto wheels? Learn how we discuss quiet rolling, packed weight, brakes and mounting with your brand, then agree on samples and spare parts.
Private Label Aluminum Case Quote: A Brief You Can Copy
What to send a factory to quote a private label aluminum case: three items that unlock a quote, nine that make it accurate, four omissions that stall it, and a brief you can copy.
How Aluminum Luggage Is Made: From Sheet Metal to Finished Case
How Aluvox makes aluminum luggage: sheet selection, shell forming, frame assembly, finishes, components, sample approval, testing and packing. Learn what to confirm before a bulk order.
Suitcase Wheels: Spinner or Inline, Single or Double, and What the Tread Is Made Of
Compare inline and spinner wheels, single and double units, tread materials and mounting. A practical specification and sample-check guide for luggage buyers.
Luggage Supplier or Luggage Factory? Five Questions That Show Who You Are Really Buying From
Factory, trading company or factory with an export desk: five questions that tell you which one you are dealing with, what each answer means for tooling, lead time and MOQ, and how we answer them.
Aluminum frame luggage tooling and what moving a lock actually costs
On an aluminum frame case the lock, hinge and wheel positions are punched by fixed die blocks. Here is which design changes need new tooling and which are free.
Hitting a weight target on an aluminum case: what can actually change
Asking what a 24 inch case weighs gets you a useless number. Send a target instead, and know which two levers move it and what each one costs.
Selling luggage into Canada: which label rule actually catches it
The Canadian textile rule exempts luggage, same as the US. The packaging rule is the one that can reach you, and only part of it has to be bilingual.
Custom Aluminum Luggage Cost: How to Read and Compare Factory Quotes
Compare custom aluminum luggage quotes by shell, components, order mix, development, and packing. See how Aluvox helps brands and wholesale buyers plan a clear budget.
Matching one color across a shell, a zipper, wheels and a lock
One Pantone chip, four unrelated coloring processes. Which pairs can match, which never will, and how to write a color spec that survives production.
What a custom aluminum suitcase shell can and cannot be shaped into
Sheet aluminum forms by bending and drawing, not by filling a cavity. Which shapes come back as no, and the press nameplate numbers that decide it.
Aluminum frame case vs full aluminum case: what each one costs you
Two different products, two opposite cost curves. What separates an aluminum frame case from a full aluminum case, and which one your quantity supports.
US fabric content and care labels on luggage: what applies
The FTC textile and care labeling rules both exclude luggage. What that means for your label spec, and the one marking that still applies.
REACH and SVHC for luggage: three duties, and none of them is a certificate
What the Candidate List actually obliges, the 45 day clock a member of the public can start, the calculation question that decides whether you have a duty, and why there is no such thing as a REACH certificate.
Prop 65 and luggage: the label is a decision, not a formality
Which components carry the risk, why private enforcement makes the exposure per unit per day, and the four documents to ask a factory for instead of an assurance.
Export packing for luggage: cartons, marks, and the wood rule
The carton sets how many units fit in a container, which makes it the decision that costs money on every shipment. What goes on the box, what the packing spec must say, and the pallet rule that stops containers at the port.
Can an existing mold run a different plastic? What shrinkage decides
A buyer question from our own inbox, answered with the number that settles it. Published shrinkage ranges for ABS, PP, and PC, which transfers to which, and why a formed shell follows a different rule.
How many molds a luggage range needs, and what belongs on the tooling list
A range is not one tool. What thermoforming and injection each need, what the SPI classes mean, why a third size more than doubles the bill, and the five columns a tooling quotation should have.
Pre-shipment inspection for luggage: the clause that gives it teeth
Prepare a luggage pre-shipment inspection with agreed documents, sampling requirements and product checks. Review the report and plan corrective action before shipment release.
