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Twenty-five years of turning drawings into finished products

Our founder started his first company in Hangzhou in 2000. Today we build complex, multi-material products for customers in North America and Europe, with partner plants across Zhejiang’s manufacturing heartland.

Top-50 engineering school

Our founder studied mechanical engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, founded in 1896 and ranked #36 in the world (QS 2027).

Ran a “Big Four” appliance plant

As factory director, he ran production at one of the “Big Four” refrigerator makers that led China’s market in the early 1990s.

25 years of partner plants

He started his first molding company in 2000 and has spent 25 years building the network of plants we work with today.

Our story

An engineer’s company

Our founder trained as a mechanical engineer at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and spent his early career in production management, rising to factory director at a state-owned refrigerator maker that was among China’s largest in the early 1990s. Running a large appliance plant taught him how plastic, metal and electrical parts come together in a product people use every day, and what it takes to build one well, at volume.

In 2000 he founded Hangzhou Dongrun Electric Appliance Co., Ltd., making hand trucks, casters and plastic pallets for export and taking on mold making, injection molding and extrusion for other companies. In 2009 he set up Hangzhou Daoshu, which carries that work forward. Along the way we have supplied seating parts that flew on Boeing and Bombardier aircraft for more than six years, and about 500,000 sets of base plates for robot-moved carts in Amazon’s logistics operations.

Today, Hangzhou Daoshu Industrial Co., Ltd. focuses on the work customers find hardest: products that combine several materials and processes, delivered finished and checked.

  1. 1990sOur founder runs production as factory director at one of China’s largest refrigerator makers.
  2. 2000Our founder starts Dongrun Electric Appliance in Hangzhou: hand trucks, casters, plastic pallets and contract molding.
  3. 2009Hangzhou Daoshu is registered and takes the work forward.
  4. 2010Seat-back monitor frames and seating parts for Boeing and Bombardier aircraft, supplied for more than six years.
  5. 500,000Sets of robot-cart base plates delivered for Amazon logistics.
  6. TodayDaoshu Industrial: plastic, rubber and multi-material products, with a project contact in North America.
Why Zhejiang

Built on China’s mold and plastics heartland

Zhejiang has one of the world’s deepest supply chains for molds, plastics and rubber. Most of our partner plants are in Ningbo and Ninghai, about two hours by road from our base in Hangzhou. Ninghai was named a China Mold Production Base in 2002 and is home to thousands of mold makers.

That density is our advantage. For almost any part, we know a plant that already makes something like it. We can visit, compare and switch between plants quickly, so a complex product gets the right maker for every part.

  • ~2 hHangzhou to our partner plants in Ningbo and Ninghai
  • 2002Ninghai named a China Mold Production Base
  • NingboOne of the world’s busiest container ports, for export
Schematic, not to scale.

The people on your project

A small, senior team. You always know who is responsible.

Founder and engineering lead

Engineer first

Mechanical engineer and former factory director. Reviews every design, chooses the plants and signs off quality.

North America contact

An engineer on your time zone

Based in Toronto, with years at well-known global tech companies. Fluent English, technical questions answered by an engineer, one contact from quote to delivery.

Hangzhou team

Inspection to shipping

Inspection, assembly, packing and export paperwork, staffed to match the size of each project.

Who does what

We are open about it: partner plants make the parts, and we take responsibility for the product.

Daoshu team, Hangzhou
  • Engineering and design-for-molding review
  • Choosing and scheduling the right plant for each part
  • Incoming and final inspection against your drawing and sample
  • Assembly, testing and packing
  • Export paperwork and freight
  • Your single point of contact, through our North America contact
Partner plants, Zhejiang
  • Mold design and making
  • Injection molding, overmolding, blow molding and extrusion
  • Rubber compounding and molding, rubber-to-metal bonding
  • Metal parts and hardware
  • Retail packaging and cartons

Company details

Check us against public company records using our legal name in English or Chinese.

Legal name
Hangzhou Daoshu Industrial Co., Ltd.
Chinese name
杭州道枢实业有限公司
Registered
2009, Hangzhou
Predecessor
Hangzhou Dongrun Electric Appliance Co., Ltd. (杭州东润电器有限公司), founded 2000
Base
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Partner network
Ningbo and Ninghai, Zhejiang
North America
Project contact in Toronto, Eastern Time
Email
[email protected]

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