The Ceramic Buyer's Column: Weekly Briefings and Guides
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Each section collects the guides that answer one part of a programme.
Latest guides
New guides are added every week — the six newest are listed here.
Chipping: Why Ceramic Edges Fail First and What a Buyer Can Specify
A chip does not end a piece the way a crack does, so it rarely arrives as a claim. Where edges actually fail, what decides resista
Backstamp: What the Base of a Mug Says and What Changing It Costs
The base is the only surface of a mug that is never photographed and never replaced. What a backstamp carries, the four ways a mar
Printable Area on a Mug: How Much Room Your Design Really Has
A mug is a cylinder with a handle welded to one side, not a page with a glaze on it. Where the printable area really ends, how the
Who Actually Fires Your Mugs: Subcontracted Firing and the Risk It Hides
A factory that forms, glazes and decorates well does not always own the kiln. What outsourced firing changes in queue priority, co
One Order, Two Shipments: When Splitting a Ceramic Order Pays
A single purchase order does not have to leave the factory in a single lot. What a split buys, the forms it takes, the fixed costs
How an Order Is Counted: Pieces, Sets and What 5,000 Actually Means
A purchase order carries one number and three possible meanings. The unit decides what the MOQ really is, how the carton rounds, w
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