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The Swedish Plastic Component company KB Components is in a start-up phase in China and needed help to construct and decorate an office inside their factory in Wuxi, China. They hired Scandic Sourcing who provided a project manager to oversee the project, attain local permits, and handle negotiations with third parties. With the help of Scandic Sourcing’s project management, the office was constructed and completed within the time frame and the budget set out by KB Components. 

KB Components is one of the leading suppliers in Scandinavia of advanced plastic components with their bulk of their operations located in Sweden and Lithuania. As part of a global growth strategy, KB Components is following their customers and establishing factories locally where their customers operate. Thus they have established a factory in Wuxi, West of Shanghai to reach the Chinese market. Their main focus is to construct a factory that is comparable in standard with other factories in the KB-group. KB Components also needed to establish an office in the factory to gather all parts of their staff under one roof and hired Scandic Sourcing to facilitate the construction, project manage the day to day construction, and to negotiate and handle the decoration of the office.

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Scandic Sourcings project manager Edvard Olsson negotiates with the design firm in charge of decorating the office.

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Edvard inspects the work inside KB's factory.

The project manager that Scandic Sourcing provided had three main goals: to ensure that the construction and decoration were done according to the client’s specifications and requirements, aim to have the factory ready for use by October 31, 2015, and to minimize the clients cost and risk. These targets were reached and the construction was finished on time, ready to serve KB Component's China expansion.

Scandic Sourcing have handled and followed through with the project in a detailed and professional manner and have during the whole project had an open and clear communication. This has given us good insight and lessened our concern in the headquarters in Sweden, which has been important since this is a green-field operation", says Robert Ramner, CEO at KB Components about Scandic Sourcing's project management.

 

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The finished result