Why are some of your products made in China or the Far East?Updated a year ago
The first thing we look at when it comes to producing our products is where can we find not only the best materials but also the best team to put them together. When we started Red Paddle Co we formed a close partnership with a small South Korean family run business that specialised in dealing with Drop Stitch (the core of an inflatable board).
After working with them for over 5 years and with our business growing at a crazy rate we worked together to build the absolute best production line, run by the most skilled workforce available.
After lots of searching we based the factory in China, close to Hong Kong. This allowed us to attract the absolute best workforce. Long gone are the days when China was seen as a low quality producer. Modern China has some of the best and most skilled textile workforce in the world with a work ethic and attention to detail to match. We could easily have based the factory anywhere but the level of quality and work ethic we found in China greatly surpassed anything else.
We are proud to still be working with the same family in a partnership that is now entering it’s 12th year. We design everything in house at our UK based development centre using feedback from over 60 countries and tens of thousands of paddlers worldwide. Only when we are absolutely satisfied that what we have designed is a better version of what we had before will we take it to final prototyping and series production. Both our UK and Chinese based teams only let the very best products reach the beaches and waterways of the world.
