Once you have molds, make sure you control them. Here's a story [1] of a company that found that the Taiwanese plastic company that made its custom parts stopp

Once you have molds, make sure you control them. Here's a story [1] of a company that found that the Taiwanese plastic company that made its custom parts stopped responding after 15 years. They got another one of their Taiwanese suppliers to go to the plastic company to see what was going on--and found that the factory was now a hotel and the sales office was a now a strip mall. [1] https://www.stlpr.org/arts/2013-07-24/on-chess-the-case-of-the-missing-molds https://www.stlpr.org/arts/2013-07-24/on-chess-the-case-of-t...