What is cabinet hinge made of?

What is cabinet hinge made of? It is the common question that clients asked Kingwen Liang.
Hinge, in the spring kav hinge which Kingwen Liang engaged in, most of them use the cold-rolled steel Q195. About the knowledge of cold-rolled steel, please pay attention to the article below:
The use and classification of cold-rolled steel and cold-rolled coil
Cold-rolled steel, the cold-rolled thin steel is short for the ordinary carbon structure cold-rolled steel, is known as the cold steel, sometimes it will be mistakenly written as cold plate. The cold plate is composed of ordinary carbon structural steel hot-steel,
After further cold-rolled it will become the steel that the thickness is less than 4mm. Since the rolling is at a room temperature, it does not produce iron oxide, so it has high surface quality and high toughness, plus the annealing treatment, the mechanical properties and process performance is better than hot-rolled steel. In many fields, especially in the electrical appliance area, has gradually replaced the hot-rolled steel.
Applicable grades: Q195 Q215 Q235 Q275 SPCC (Japan brand) ST12 (Germany brand)
Symbol:

• Q- The code of common carbon structure steel point (limit), it is the first Chinese alphabet, 195 215 235 255 275- respectively the number of their yield point, unit: MPa (N/mm2). Since Q235 steel is better in the strength, plasticity, toughness and weld ability, can meet the general use demands better, so it is widely used in the area.
• S- For steel, P-For plate, C-For cold and the fourth C-For common
• ST-For steel, 12-for ordinary thin sold-rolled steel

Mark: Dimensional accuracy-Size-Plate Breed Standard
Cold-rolled steel: Steel No. - Technology standard
Samples: B-0.57501500-GB708-88, steel standard No.is Q/BQB402, the grade is SPCC, heat annealing treatment plus formation (S), the central processing state is linen D, surface quality is the FB level trimming (cutting edge is EC, not trimming is EM) steel, thickness is 0.5mm, B-level, width is 1000mm, A-level, length is 2000mm, A-level, roughness accuracy PF, so is marked as :Steel ECQ/BQB 402-SPCC-SD-FB/(0.51000A2000A-PF.A)
Cold-rolled steel: Q225-GB912-89
Main origin: Bao Steel  An Steel  Ben Steel  Wu Steel  Han Steel  Bao Steel  Tang Steel  Lian Steel  Ji Steel and so on.
Ordinary cold-rolled steel: is made up of the ordinary carbon structure. Cabinet hingehas a perfect surface quality, with good punching properties, it requires the cold-rolled and cup test pass, was usually used in the automotive and other industries and coated sheet materials.
High-quality cold-rolled steel: mainly include all kinds of high quality cold-rolled steel; the most commonly used is carbon structural steel, especially deep drawing cold-rolled steel, is made of high quality carbon steel 08A1, the steel surface quality can be divided into three groups: I II III, respectively especially senior, senior and junior surface finishing. By drawing level is divided into ZF HF F grade(stand for Punch drawing the most complex, very complex and the complex parts) , according to the thickness tolerance, is divided into A and B two precision, widely used in automobile and tractor industries
Cold-rolled steel, with smooth surface, fine processing, it is widely used in cars, refrigerators, washing machines and other appliances, industrial equipment and various construction materials. With the development of economics, cold-rolled steel has been called the certain material in the modern society. Classification of cold-rolled products: hot rolled pickling, rolling hard, ordinary cold-rolled, galvanized (galvanized fingerprint resistant, hot dip galvanized), zinc, tin plating, coating, electrical steel (silicon steel) and so on.
Kav hinge is your best choice.

How to choose the bathroom cabinet (about hinge) Original

By Berry

Most of the consumers focus on the style and color of the bathroom cabinet when they choose the cabinet, pays little attention to the selection of cabinet hardware accessories. Actually the accessories is one of the most important part of modern bathroom furniture, it will directly affect the overall level and the function of the bathroom cabinet.

Bathroom cabinet hardware accessories mainly include: hinges, drawer slides, hydraulic and the anchor. Today we mainly discuss how to choose the cupboard door hinges.

Hinge, is an important part of the bathroom cabinet, is most used in the cupboard switching process. At current market, hinge is mainly include: soft close hinge, common hinge, two-way hinge, two-dimensional hinge and three-dimensional hinge by function. By material, hinge mainly include: cold-rolled sheet and stainless steel hinge.

Now there are two kinds of cabinet door hinge: clip on and fixed. The clip-on hinge is divided into base and pedestal two parts, of course, it is easier to install and disassemble for the clip-on hinge. The hinge usually use the two-dimensional and three-dimensional eccentric displacement to adjust , the three-dimensional hinge is of course better. In addition, you should choose the hinge with a hydraulic buffer ,which makes the door is easy to open and closed slowly, so as to ensure the safety and avoid the noise when you close the door, guarantee the life more comfortable and quite.

Actually the most significant part of hinge is the material that made of the hinge , if the material is not good, the door may be dropped out after a period of time. It is better to use the self-closing stainless steel hinges in the bathroom, its thickness and toughness is perfect. Finally, suggest you to choose the hinge which made by brands, it will ensure the high quality and longer service life.

304 Stainless steel hinge

Three-dimensional hydraulic hinge

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What is cabinet hinge made of？

What is cabinet hinge made of？

By Kingwen Liang

What is cabinet hinge made of？It is often asked by the clients to Kingwen Liang.

Kitchen Hinge, in the spring furniture hinge industry which Kingwen Liang is engaged in, cold rolled steel Q195 is most used. About the knowledge of the cold rolled steel, please pay attention to the article below

The classification and use of the cold rolled steel and the cold rolled coil

Cold-rolled steel is short for the thin cold-rolled steel which is made from ordinary carbon structural, commonly known as the cold plate. Cold plate is the steel that made up of ordinary carbon structural steel hot-rolled steel belt; the thickness is less than 4mm after further cold rolling. The cold plate has a favorable quality and high precision in size because it is made in the room temperature and would not produce scale, plus with the annealing treatment, the mechanical properties and process performance are better than hot rolled steel, in many fields, especially in home appliance manufacturing areas, has been gradually replace the hot rolled steel.

Applicable grades: Q195 Q215 Q235 Q275 SPCC (Japan brand) ST12 (Germany brand)

Symbol:

1.       Q- The code for the ordinary carbon structural point (limit), it is the first word of Chinese phonetic alphabet. 195 215 235 255 275-represent the number the cold-rolled steel can bear (limit), the unit (MPa ). The Q235 is the best in the strength, plasticity, toughness of the ordinary carbon structural, it can meet the demand of daily use, so the application range is very wide.

2.       S-for steel. P for plate. C for cold-rolled. And the fourth-regular grade C for common.

3.       ST for Steel and the number 12 stand for the ordinary cold-rolled steel.

Mark: size precision-dimensions-plate breed standard

     Cold-rolled steel: Steel-technical condition standard

Mark example: B-0.57501500-GB708-88, Steel, Q/BQB402 Standard, grade (SPCC), annealing heat treatment state plus level(S), table textured D, with central processing status to surface quality level for FB trimming steel; the thickness is 0.5mm, B precision of width 1000mm. a level precision ,length is 2000mm, A level precision ,roughness of PF precision. A, is marked as: steel ECQ/BQB 402-(SPCC)-SD-FB/(A2000A-PF.0.51000A)

Cold-rolled steel: Q225-GB912-89

The main origin: Bao steel, steel, Ben steel, Wu steel, Han steel, Bao steel, Tang steel, Lian steel, Ji steel and so on.

Ordinary cold-rolled steel: This is made up of ordinary carbon structural or low alloy structural. It has a good surface quality and a perfect punching property. It requires passing the cold bending test, which is common used in the automotive industry.

High quality cold-rolled steel: mainly include all kinds of high quality cold-rolled steel; the most commonly used is the carbon structural, especially for deep drawing, which is composed of low carbon cold-rolled steel. According to the surface quality, divided it into three parts: I II III, respectively the special senior, senior and high rough surface, according to the drawing, can be divided into ZF, HF and F, due to the toughness of the steel, can deeply divided into A and B, is widely used in the automobile tractor industry.

Cold-rolled steel: with smoothly surface, excellent in processing, commonly used in the automobile refrigerator washing machine and other home appliance, it is also used in the industrial equipment and all kinds of building material. With the development of economy, the cold-rolled steel is called as the material of modern society.

The classification of cold-rolled product: hot rolled pickling, rolling hard, ordinary cold-rolled, galvanized (galvanized fingerprint resistant, hot dip galvanized), zinc, tin plate, coating, electrical steel (silicon steel ) and so on.

　　

Can we distinguish high quality cabinet soft close hinge from the one with bad quality via intuition？

Can we distinguish high quality hydraulic soft close hinge from the one with bad quality via intuition？

Yesterday, I met a boss whom I’ve known him since 2001 and we’ve done business for four or five years.
He was so happy to meet me at the gate of his factory as soon as I got off the car. “Glad to see you again,Kingwen”, He said.
“Yeah, long time no see”, I answered him with a smile. After 2006, we have not seen each other nearly for 6 years, due to the fact that clients demanded much higher level products，so that they changed cabinet hinge supplier.
After greetings and knowing recent situation between us, he showed me our kav brand hydraulic hinge and said “The soft close function is a little fast. It seems that the furniture hinges we use now are better. Is the buffering effect not enough? It is better that the door can soft close at angle of 30 degree and will not produce noise.
“It does not matter, and we can adjust its speed as long as you put forward your demands. I am here now, and we can solve all problems right away. Or if you have any new requirements, extra function or new design, maybe I can help you out.  Also you can ask a technologist to install this soft close hydraulic hinge with me and compare it with your previous ones and which one is better can be found out soon” I said. They readily agreed, after finishing installation, he looked at it and said the effect is almost the same.
Moreover, when he pulled the door at 35°Angle and then loosened his hands, the hydraulic hinge they used before didn’t have the function of buffering and made a big noise, while our kav brand hydraulic hinge soft closed with great buffering function and without any noise.
Now customer is very satisfied with our soft closing hinge, and he knew some of his friends also have been using our hinges for years. He suggested that he will place order for our soft close hydraulic hinge and soft close slide in a few days.

So, here underline again by Kingwen, I already uploaded lots of articles about how to distinguish hinges. Currently, with the increasing requirement of customers and development of domestic hydraulic hinges technology, it is difficult to distinguish soft close hinge of bad quality from the one with good quality, if only with our eyes and several close-open movement. We have to try to use them and as the time goes by， there will show up the differences.

What do you think?

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With half overlay hinge, how to solve the collision when cupboard open?

With half overlay hinge, how to solve the collision when cupboard open?

By Kingwen Liang

This is the question from a friend online at eleven o’clock.

F(for friend ): Hello, here is the question, the two cupboards of the cabinet share the side panel, using the half overlay cabinet hinge, but when I open one of the cupboard, it will hit the other, so, how to solve the problem? The gap of the two doors is about 2 to 3mm.

Kingwen Liang: About the question, firstly we should consider whether the door is too thick (Now many people use the 25mm cupboard), if you choose the ordinary 18mm kitchen hinge, then the collision is inevitable, because the door is too thick, its corners will produce an arc. If this is the issue, I suggest you to use the hinge which is made for the thick cupboard. The holes of thick door hinge are generally 40mm, 5mm longer than regular hinge, within using the thick door hinge, can be very good to avoid the angle problem caused by the door is too thick. Secondly, if it is only the ordinary 15mm or 18mm cupboard, and the door hinge is the conventional product ,then you can try to down the adjusting screw a little bit, about 1mm or 2mm on both sides, it may can solve the problem.(You can see how to adjust on the picture above)

Note: Half overlay hinge, the so-called half-cover hinge, hinge in bending; the ordinary thickness is 9mm.

PS: I got a message below in nine thirty on 23th, September, 2008

Thank you a lot. The door is too thick indeed, and it is aluminum frame doors. I have replaced the half overlay removable hinge to the half overlay ordinary hinge, then the problem solved. Thank you very much, I often read your blog, throughout your blog , I have a better understanding of cupboard hinge, and have been interested in it, hope can be your agent in the future. 

American-style cabinet, damping soft close hinge demand to follow the trend

American-style cabinet, damping soft close hinge demand to follow the trend

By Kingwen Liang

Damping, the pursuit of high-end household, about the application of damping, Kingwen Liang has been mentioned in the previous article.

And recently, more and more customers made an inquiry about soft close hinge, the quantity that customer need is also growing rapidly.

Originally, the U.S. market has always been the top priority of China's furniture exports. However, due to different tastes of American customers, the short arm hinge has a majority used in the U.S market in order to maintain the high-end of American furniture. American furniture and cabinet factory are fond of Blum hinges, hettich hinges and other international brands, while the domestic cabient hinges are rarely used.

But in recent years, more and more manufacturers which produce American-style cabinet have emerged in mainland of China; the domestic manufacturers have a better understanding of hinge that made in China, knowing that it is getting better and better, thus make the manufacturers trend to choose domestic hinge in order to save time and cost and maintain the quality at the same time.

While the hinge hydraulic system appears, attract a large number of American-style cabinet manufacturers.

Since last year, there have been dozens of American-style cabinet manufacturers, both at home and abroad came to Long Sheng hinge factory in person, or call to inquire whether the American hinge damping effect can be integrated.

Now, in order to meet the market demand, has developed an integrated damping kitchen hinge, hoping to really fill a gap in the market. (Such as the opening title picture above)

How to choose the bathroom cabinet (about hinge ) Original

How to choose the bathroom cabinet (about hinge ) Original

By Berry

Most of the consumers focus on the style and color of the bathroom cabinet when they choose the cabinet, pays little attention to the selection of cabinet hardware accessories. Actually the accessories is one of the most important part of modern bathroom furniture, it will directly affect the overall level and the function of the bathroom cabinet.

Bathroom cabinet hardware accessories mainly include: furniture hinges, drawer slides, hydraulic and the anchor. Today we mainly discuss how to choose the cupboard door hinges.

Hinge, is an important part of the bathroom cabinet, is most used in the cupboard switching process. At current market, hinge is mainly include: soft close hinge, common hinge, two-way hinge, two-dimensional hinge and three-dimensional hinge by function. By material, hinge mainly include: cold-rolled sheet and stainless steel hinge.

Now there are two kinds of hinge: clip on and fixed. The clip-on hinge is divided into base and pedestal two parts, of course, it is easier to install and disassemble for the clip-on hinge. The hinge usually use the two-dimensional and three-dimensional eccentric displacement to adjust , the three-dimensional hinge is of course better. In addition, you should choose the hinge with a hydraulic buffer ,which makes the door is easy to open and closed slowly, so as to ensure the safety and avoid the noise when you close the door, guarantee the life more comfortable and quite.

Actually the most significant part of hinge is the material that made of the hinge , if the material is not good, the door may be dropped out after a period of time. It is better to use the stainless steel material in the bathroom, its thickness and toughness is perfect. Finally, suggest you to choose the hinge which made by brands, it will ensure the high quality and longer service life.

304 Stainless steel hinge

Three-dimensional hydraulic hinge

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Want to choose a good cupboard Come to see the important factors that affecting the life of a cupboard

Want to choose a good cupboard

Come to see the important factors that affecting the life of a cupboard

cupboard hinge, the main component that linked the cabinet and the door plate, is most used in daily life, so the quality of the door hinge is very important for the use of a cabinet. 90 degrees to 95 degrees is the common opening angle of a cabinet hinge, once it has opened, the shape is a right angle. The hinge with a particular angle, such as 165 degree hinge, the opening angle is 165 degrees, better to get things from the cabinet. At present, the hinge has a one-way hinge and two-way hinge. The one-way hinge can basically meet the usual use, of course, the two-way hinge is better. The difference between one-way hinge and two-way hinge has been referred in the article. On the market, most of the hinges are removable, are divided into the hinge base and hinge body. When you choose the cabinet, you can remove the door and the hinge body so that you can check the hinge inside, while the non-removable hinge is hard to install, the methods of how to use it is the same.

The steel that make of the hinge is important, if the steel is not good, after a period of time, the door plate may have some problems in closing the cabinet. Almost all the cabinet brands use the cold-rolled steel, its thickness and toughness are perfect. Stainless steel is also useful, damp places will soon show signs of rust when use the ordinary steel, while the use of stainless hinge can make up for the problem, can make the furniture live longer. The thickness of the steel has a great influence on the quality of the hinge, which decide whether can bear the weight of the door, must be paid attention to in the purchase of the cabinet.

In addition, you should choose slow close hinge. So-called slow close hinge, refers to when the door is closed, it will leave a certain angle to slow the speed of closing the cabinet, avoid the noise of the hinge, so the cabinet will not be closed suddenly. Except the slow close hinge, push open hinge is the leader when people have rivals full of hands. Once stall the push open hinge, when you touch the door lightly, it can open automatically, which make a great convenience for the daily use.

Finally, the hinge must be able to adapt to the wet, smoke and many other factors in the kitchen. Its quality is key to the normal use and the life of the cabinet, so the hinge is very important. It is not only the connection between the cabinet and the door plate, but also bear the weight of the door plate, in addition to, it must keep the door arranges unchanged, otherwise, after sometime, it will be loose. In the design of the drawer, the most important part is the drawer slide. Due to the special environment of the kitchen, even though low-quality slide you will feel good in a short term, for a long time it will be hard to push-pull, for any product, especially the large one. So “The furniture hinge is the heart of the cabinet, drawer slide is kidney” This sentence is not exaggerated. Furniture hardware accessories must be paid more attention when you ordering the cabinet.

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The development history and current situation of Chinese cabinet hinge

The development history and current situation of Chinese cabinet hinge

By Kingwen Liang

Kingwen Liang write this article from the perspective of personal understanding . He wants to make more friends who has a well understanding about the cabinet hinge industry through the article, hoping to let the people who are unfamiliar with the hinge will be interested in the hinge industry at the same time. In this article, kitchen hinge is particular divided into concealed hinge and spring hinge which are used to link the furniture cupboard door. Rather than copper hinge or in other industries such as automotive and industrial hinge etc. Please pay attention to it and welcome to communicate with us if you have any questions..

It is said that in the eighties, the first hinge production factory is in Qingdao, Shandong, which is founded by the Japanese. Later a boss from Shunde, Guangdong found the hinge industry is promising, invited a master from the Japanese company with high salary, and then here comes the Chinese hinge industry.

In the next decade, with the rapid development of the Chinese hinge factory, the Japanese factory was forced to be out the hinge industry in China.

China stared from the cup hinge to the alloy hinge, then to the iron hinge, with the development of the hinge, the production quantity has increased and the price is more reasonable. There are thousands of factories that produce the hinge, from the real sense; it has become the hinge-produced country. But want to become the expertise in the hinge production; there is still a long way to go.

Behind the article, I will analyze the basic situation about Chinese hinge production and the innovation in the furniture hinge industry. And say something about operating situation of foreign brands in China, Just pay attention to it.

An India client inquire for our SS304 hydraulic hinge

SS304 clip-on inset soft-closing hinge

SS304 slide-on half overlay auto close hinge

SS304 easy dismounting full overlay slow closing hinge

SS304 fixed concealed buffering one way hinge

Catalog of SS304 hydraulic hinge (clip-on)

Catalog of SS304 hydraulic hinge (fixed)

Dear Pia,

Mr Jason spoke to you.

I am Mr Shiv from India. We need hydraulic hinges in SS 304 material. Please send the price and catalogue.

regards

Dear Mr shiv,

I am very glad that you are interested in our product.

The quotation you need is in the attachments.

The product we quote you is made of real SS 304 material, which is waterproof and is different from the so-call SS304 in market, which may be made of SS201 and rust soon. You can test our product with SS304 exclusive liquid medicine.

BTW, the hinges you need are used for what kind of product?

If the hinges often have to been under acid and water conditions, we suggest that you can try our product.

Except for SS 304 hinge, we also have 3D fast transfer hinge, two way hydraulic hinge, 26mm cup mini one way hinge and so on.

Besides hinge, we also have slide, such as heavy duty slide, double wall slide, ballbearing slide, American slide with faceframe, undermounted three or two folds slide, etc.

I also send you some of our product catalogues, which are also in the attachments.

If you have any question, pls feel free to ask.

We will reply you asap.

Have a nice day.

Pia

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What’s the Difference Between One Way Hinge and Two Way Hinge? (Original)

What’s the difference between one way hinge and two way hinge? To this day, many people ask me this question.

Actually, for this question, I already talked about it in my former blogs, but I explained it in two articles.

In article, How to Choose a Suitable Cabinet Hinge—One Way Hinge, I  mentioned that only bring the door gently, then it will close quickly after installing one way hinge， whose feature is quick and powerful. If you are willing to have such quick and powerful effect, one way hinge is the best choice.

In article, How to Choose a Suitable Cabinet Hinge—Two Way Hinge, I mentioned that the door can stop at any angle before 45 degree, after 45 degree, the door will auto-close. Of course, there some cabinet hinge that will auto close at 30 degree and some will auto close after 60 degree.

As for customers, they can choose one way hinge or two way hinge basis on themselves. Everyone has his/her own favorite. You want quick close or soft close?

　　Hinges are divided into following series:

1.Kitchen cabinet hinge series: Generally speaking, demands of kitchen cabinet hinge is higher than furniture hinge, including durability and rustproof capacity.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

2. Furniture hinge series: furniture hinge is the most economical and most used by furniture factories in China and Middle East.

3. Hydraulic hinge series: hydraulic hinges also called soft closing hinges, which is the most eye catching product in hinge industry, whose feature is soft closing without noise. What’s more, it is the main product to be researched and developed and now it’s exported to many countries, such as America, Canada, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Taiwan, etc.

　　

4.Special hinge series: special hinge includes glass hinge, aluminum frame hinge, 170 degree hinge, faceframe hinge, touch open hinge and so on, which can make your furniture much more special.

　　

5.Furniture hardware series: drawer slide, gas spring, lid stay, sliding door damper, cabinet suspension, etc.

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Why SS304 hinge can be absorbed by magnet? (Original)

By Lucy (kav)

All this time, when customers use SS304 hinge, they will have a question that Why SS304 hinge can be absorbed by magnet.

Large scale hinge factories will choose SS304 or SS201 as raw material to produce stainless steel hinge. However, some hinge factories will use inferior material instead of SS304 material to cheat customers. When choosing stainless steel hinge, customers can’t distinguish it by eyes, so they usually use a magnet to absorb the stainless steel hinge to judge whether it is made of stainless steel material or not.

As a matter of fact, it’s not correct to test whether stainless steel hinge is made of stainless steel material or not.

A hinge consists of many accessories, which are stamping by molds. Raw material is SS304, but stamping molds are iron, so iron will be left during productive process. Moreover, because accessories of hinge are made of anti-rust iron (Notice: the hinge body is made of pure SS304, but other accessories are made of anti-rust iron, because SS304 has strong hardness and is brittle, if used to produce accessories, they will be easy to crack during productive process and in using.), which also can be absorbed by magnet through stainless steel material, so if using a magnet to absorb a stainless steel hinge, it is normal that it can be absorbed by magnet. If the hinge is demagnetized, it can’t be absorbed by magnet, but many factories will don’t demagnetize their stainless steel hinge.

Only SS304 exclusive medicine can judge whether stainless steel hinge is made of SS304 material or not.

Here is a URL for reference: http://v.ku6.com/show/eesiF4B3tY_RCCoa.html?loc=tashangchuan     (Notice: This is an exclusive medicine to test SS304 and can be bought in hardware store)  Drop some exclusive medicine on hinge, if no color change of hinge, it’s made of SS304, if it turns red, it may be made of SS201 or other material.

Actually, customers can choose material of hinge according to their requirement, for example, SS304 hinge has strong rustproof capacity and normally used under moist condition, such as bathroom cabinet and kitchen cabinet, while anti-rust capacity of SS201 hinge is a little weaker, so SS304 hinge is a little expensive than SS201 hinge. 

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How is Chinese hinge, compared with international top brand, such as Hafele, Ferrari, Blum and so on?

How is Chinese hinge, compared with international top brand, such as Hafele, Ferrari, Blum and so on? There are lots of people inquiring Kingwen Liang this question.

As a matter of fact, hinge industries in the world pay their attention to China, for the fast development of Chinese hinge industry as other normal industries. Plenty of top hinge brands worldwide have built office and production base and found factories to do OEM in China, which makes a great progress for productive technology of Chinese furniture hinge, even quality of some cabinet door concealed hinge is close to world quality.

Take two way hinge as an example, which is the most used cabinet door hinge in the world, after several decades of development, Chinese two way hinge gains the trust of hinge users worldwide. Compared with world-class brand, such as Hafele, Ferrari, Blum, Mepla, Hettich and so on, Chinese two way hinge gets approval from hinge industries all over the world, for its competitive price and stable quality. Besides, two way hinge is done OEM for world-class top brands the most as well.

Compared to world class top brands, what are the disadvantages of Chinese hinge? It’s a little hard to say, but Kingwen Liang will put forward his own opinions here.

First, for stability of quality of Chinese two way hinge, it’s almost equal to world class top brands, such as Hafele, Ferrari, Blum, Mepla, Hettich, etc.

Second, in these two years, because of the rapid increase of electroplating material, it leads to the decrease of quality of electroplating material and result in worse rustproof capacity of Chinese hinge, compared to overseas brands that apply stable electroplating material and more advanced technology of electroplating technology.

Third, for hinge product line, because of its deficient ability to research and develop types of hinge, Chinese hinge product line is not as varied as overseas brands, so is the loyalty. For quality, quality of Chinese hinge is ok for those which are produced a lot, but for high-end clip on technology and soft close technology, Chinese hinge can’t be mentioned in the same breath as world-class top brands, which demands lots of effort to catch up with them.

Fourth, hydraulic hinge overseas, whose hinge and damper is separated, though Chinese manufacturers are trying to produce high-end inner damper system integrated with hinge, for intensive competitiveness of Chinese market, many factories focus on price and result in trust problem of quality. It’s a mix of hope and fear.

Finally, for brand promotion, Chinese hinge brand is far behind international brands, such as Hafele, Ferrari, Blum, Mepla, Hettich and so on, which produce a culture makes customers look forward to.

Chinese hinge manufacturers mainly gather in Guangdong. If Chinese hinge wants to go international, Kingwen Liang suggests that instead of infighting and reducing quality and price，they should build a hinge alliance to promote development of hinge industry as lighter industry in Zhejiang. On the other hand, Chinese customers should choose hinge reasonably, rather than just focus on price and fancy packing, which is no good for themselves and the development of Chinese hinge industry.

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What kind of hinge is better for cabinet?

A customer from abroad contacted me on the net. He’s a cabinet manufacturer and wanted to know how to choose the Hinges.

“Have you ever used cabinet Hinges?” I asked him. “Yes, we have, but without damper. And my clients asked us to change Hinges, because it will make a noise when closes door using the former normal hinge. So, I’d like to know what kind of Hinge is the best.” He answered me.  “Hinges with damper can help you solve your problem.” I said.

I sent him our catalogue about Hinges and then introduced many kind of Hinges for cabinet to him also showed him its function and advantage. One is hydraulic one way Hinge; one is two way concealed Hinge; one is clip on buffering hinge; one is 3D fast transfer hydraulic hinge. Clip on concealed hinge and 3D fast transfer  soft close hinge can be produced with two way function.

Beyond that，3D fast transfer hydraulic hinge is exported to other countries the most.

“Due to the expensive labor costs abroad, many cabinet manufactures prefer 3D fast transfer hydraulic hinge that can save a great number of labor costs.

He’s very satisfied with my introduction, because he only knew a little about Hinges before. He said we almost have all types of hinges. Finally, he asked me to send him two samples of each type of our hinges.

After he tested our product, he spoke highly of our quality. “Have you ever attended any foreign Fairs before? It seemed that I’ve met you before.” He asked me. “Yes, most of our business came from abroad before 1998, thus, we took part in the foreign fairs generally. But after 1998, we started to look for domestic market. That is why we are not as famous as DTC for now.” I answered. After chatting many times and further knew us, he asked his domestic friends to visit our factory then we got an order and shipped the concealed hinges to him from Guangzhou port via less container load.

Though the order is not too large, I think the most important for customers is to find an honest and reliable supplier.

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