Manufacturing & Quality Control

Process

A mirror looks like a simple product and is not. Between raw float glass and a packed carton there are nine controlled steps, and a failure at any of them shows up months later as a black edge, a fogged crescent, a flickering driver or a cracked panel in a container.

1. Glass selection — standard float or low-iron substrate, 2 mm to 6 mm depending on the model and whether the panel will be tempered.
2. Cutting — CNC straight cutting for rectangular work, waterjet for shaped and custom profiles.
3. Edge work — grinding, seaming, arrising, and polishing or bevelling. On shaped panels this includes the concave sections, which is the step most often skipped.
4. Tempering — for gym, studio and commercial panels, done before silvering because mirror glass cannot be tempered afterwards.
5. Silvering — silver layer, protective layers and paint system; copper-free and lead-free on the eco range.
6. Backing — CAT I or CAT II safety backing where specified, and sealed perimeter treatment on wet-area products.
7. Electrical assembly — LED strip placement, driver, demister pad bonding, touch sensor calibration and wiring, on lit models.
8. Test — full-function test on every lit unit; aging test on a sampled batch; insulation and earth continuity checks on hard-wired products.
9. Packing — EPE, honeycomb board and five-layer carton, or a vertical timber crate for large panels; packed-carton drop test against the ISTA 3A profile.

Inspection Points

Stage	What is checked	Criterion
Incoming glass	Thickness, flatness, inclusion count	Per batch, against the purchase specification
After edge work	Dimension, edge finish, concave sections	+/- 1.5 mm; no chips, no unpolished sections
After silvering	Coating uniformity, pinholes, edge seal	Visual at 600 mm under standard lighting
Electrical assembly	Function, brightness, CCT, demister, touch response	100% of lit units
Aging test	Continuous operation	Sampled batch, 24 hours minimum
Packed carton	Drop, vibration, compression	ISTA 3A profile

Documentation Issued With Shipments

• Supplier RoHS and REACH material declarations for the product family.
• Tempering certificate for tempered panels.
• Backing classification certificate for CAT I and CAT II panels.
• UN38.3 test report and MSDS for lithium-battery products.
• Mounting details, rough-in dimensions and tilt geometry drawings where the model requires them.
• Numbered cut schedule and shop drawing on custom-cut project work.

Certification We Can Arrange

We are the factory, so certification is a service we run against your order, not a badge we already hold. Tell us the target market and the channel requirement; we quote the scope, cost and lead time, send samples, work with the lab and follow up on any corrections.

• Test-report based — CE (LVD and EMC), RoHS, REACH, FCC SDoC, ISTA transit testing. Samples go to a lab; budget weeks, and a cost per product family rather than per SKU.
• Listing with a factory audit — UL, ETL, SAA, PSE and similar. These test the finished product and audit the plant, with ongoing follow-up inspections, and the certificate is tied to the audited factory. Budget months, not weeks.
• Factory-level social audits — BSCI, SEDEX. These audit the facility itself and cannot be arranged per order. Tell us at quotation stage and we allocate your models to a plant that already holds one.

Two things we state up front, because they are what these negotiations actually turn on:

• The certificate is issued in your name. You fund the testing and you hold the certificate — which also makes you the responsible party in your market. This is the normal ODM arrangement, and it means the certificate stays with you if you ever change supplier.
• We supply the technical file. A Declaration of Conformity is only worth signing if the file behind it exists: bill of materials, electrical schematics, test reports, risk assessment and instructions. That file has to come from the factory, and most cannot produce it.

One practical note for the EU: the importer's name and address must appear on the product or its packaging. We print it as part of your labelling spec.

Factory Audits

We welcome third-party and customer audits, and we will arrange a video walkthrough within two working days for buyers who cannot travel. If your program requires a social compliance audit such as BSCI or SEDEX at a specific partner factory, tell us at quotation stage so the model is allocated to a facility that already holds it rather than to one that would need to obtain it.