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Manufacturing Capability — Inside the IDIF Plant

Manufacturing capability · Guzhen, Zhongshan

We make eave lighting.
We make all of it.

Six stations, one roof, one address on the export documents. The aluminium is extruded on four dies we own, the boards are populated on our own SMT line, the modules are potted on two lines, and nothing goes into a carton before 72 hours on the burn-in rack.

  • Six stations, none of them subcontracted
  • Four extrusion dies, cut and maintained in-house
  • Two potting lines — compound poured to the lens
  • 72-hour burn-in on every batch, under UV
The plantCN · 22.5°N
Manufacturing floor
6,000 m²
Production stations
6
Extrusion dies
4, in-house
Potting lines
2
Production, QC, engineering
100+
Plant opened
2013
No station on this list is sent out — not the extrusion, not the reflow, not the potting.
Rows of sealed screw-lock connectors on a production tray, ready for potting and assembly
Locking connectors — the joint most often bought in, and the first one to leak.
Why it stays in one building

An eave light is a roof component that happens to glow.

The eave takes more water than any other line on a building. Runoff collects there, wind drives it sideways, and ice sits on it for a week in February. A fixture that treats that as a lighting problem has already lost the argument.

Most of what is sold as permanent outdoor lighting is bought in: one supplier for the module, another for the profile, a third for the driver, and a brand name over the top. Three sets of tolerances, three inspection reports, and no single party who can say why batch 40 stopped matching the sample you signed.

So every tolerance that decides whether water gets in is held by the same building — and when a batch fails IP67, we know which machine to open and which person to ask.

Process, station by station

Six stations, one address.

Follow a metre of track through the building. Nothing on this list leaves the property between the billet and the carton.

01Extrusion

The profile is ours

Four dies cut the sections we sell, including the flange that actually keeps water out. Buying extrusion outside is cheap until a supplier changes and the wall comes back thinner than the sample.

02SMT

Boards populated in-house

Reflow runs on our floor and the LED bin is the one you specified. When a buyer names a brand of chip, we do not substitute quietly and hope the CCT lands close.

03Potting

Poured full, not smeared

Compound goes in until it meets the lens. No air pocket means nothing to condense in a July roof space, and a bubble left now is a water path in year five.

04Ageing

72 hours before it counts

Every batch goes on the burn-in rack under UV. Early failures belong in our scrap bin, not in your second container.

05Assembly

Seated by hand

Modules seated, connectors torqued, gaskets inspected at the bench. This is the station that decides whether the joint survives its first winter on the roof.

06Packing

Your label, your language

Printed cartons, installation sheets in the destination language, barcodes and pallet marks to your retailer’s routing guide. The last station should look like your warehouse, not ours.

On the floor

Inside the building.

No studio lighting, no borrowed machines. Four bays from the line your order runs on — the machines, not the brochure.

Dispensing head running the length of an aluminium track on the potting line
01Potting · over the track
Placement head moving over a panel on the in-house SMT line
02Placement · SMT line
Gloved hands seating black potted modules into a production tray
03Assembly · seated into trays
Blue-lit LED modules on the burn-in rack during the 72-hour ageing test
04Ageing · 72 hours on the rack
Capacity & schedule

What the line can hold.

Numbers a buyer can plan a container against, not a peak week. All of them are set by machines we own, so they move when we change the rack — not when a supplier does.

  • 01

    100,000 m a month.

    Four dies and two potting lines set the ceiling. That is the rate we schedule in a normal month, which is a different number from the one a sales sheet quotes for a good one — and the second number is what actually arrives in your container.

  • 02

    Seven days on stock profiles.

    The extrusion is already cut and the rack has room, so only potting, ageing and packing sit in front of your order. This is why the CD and MD sections are worth standardising on: a stock profile is a week, a new one is a month.

  • 03

    25–30 days on custom.

    Non-stock lengths, non-stock colours, a new section. The clock starts at artwork approval, not at the deposit, because anodising is a bath schedule and a die is a four-week item. We would rather give you the honest calendar than a short promise.

  • 04

    20 m in a single run.

    Beyond that the voltage drop becomes your design decision rather than our datasheet claim: a re-feed, a heavier conductor, or a 24 V driver closer to the load. We would rather say it here than in a commissioning report.

  • 05

    1.2 million m a year.

    Track that leaves the building across 30+ export markets, on one set of tolerances because it came off one set of machines. Containers, not pallets — and no second plant to absorb the overflow when a month runs hot.

Documents

Paperwork that survives the border.

Prepared for the destination market, not printed once and posted on every page. Ask for the pack and it arrives as a folder, not eight separate emails.

CEEU declaration of conformity, per product family
RoHSMaterial declaration mapped to the BOM
UKCAUK market marking and technical file
ETLNorth American listing, 120 V variants
IP67Immersion report, drawn from the production batch
Salt sprayCoastal finish testing, report on request
IES / LDTPhotometric files for the lighting designer
WarrantyUp to five years, module and track

Need the full set for a specification? Request the documents pack.

Where the plant is

One address, and it is on the export documents.

Visits start at the sample wall and end on the line. Bring the section you are working from — a profile on the bench gets a straighter answer than a thread of emails.

Monday to Saturday, 08:30–18:00 GMT+8. Two working days’ notice and the station you want to see will be running when you arrive.

IDIF Lighting Co., Ltd.CN
Factory
6th Floor, No. 398 Haizhou East Bank
North Road, Guzhen Town
Zhongshan, Guangdong 528422, China
Office
Same building as the line
Next step

Walk the line before you place the order.

Two working days’ notice, and name the station you want to see. A stopped line teaches you nothing — ours will be running while you are standing there.

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