Hutchins Industrial Sourcing

A technical sourcing partner for mining and heavy industry.

Equipment, chemicals, and materials — sourced by a chemical engineer with deep relationships in China.

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What we source

From pit to plant — across mining, metals processing, and heavy civil infrastructure.

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Mining & Heavy Equipment

Crushers and grinding mills, drills, haul trucks, conveyors, tunnel boring equipment, graders, dozers. Sourced from the same Chinese manufacturers that equip major infrastructure projects in China.

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Process Chemicals & Metals

Lithium products, recycled battery materials, and mineral processing reagents. Multi-source supply across Chinese and Western producers — with technical oversight from a chemical engineer.

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Projects & Procurement Support

Factory audits, specification translation, in-country QC, and shipment coordination. A turnkey procurement partner for buyers building reliable long-term supply lines.

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Projects

Delivered in China. Extended to you.

Our China-side partner has personally delivered these projects. The relationships built through them are the supply chain we now make available to our clients.

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In the field
Operating a skid steer at a salt-flats site
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Field crew
Demo plant interior
Demo plant
Site visit on a desert ridge
Site visit
Why us

What we bring.

Sourcing with technical depth.

Picking the right equipment is more than matching a spec sheet — it comes down to understanding the process the equipment will run in, the chemistry it has to handle, and the operating conditions it has to perform under. We bring that context to every sourcing conversation, not just a vendor list and a price.

Suppliers we've worked with.

Our supplier network in China was built through years of project execution with major infrastructure partners. We know who delivers, who needs follow-up, and who to call when a spec changes.

End to end.

A mining or heavy-industry project pulls from across the supply chain: comminution, hydromet, hauling, reagents, instrumentation. We cover all of it under one inquiry.

Tell us what you need.

Send us your spec. We'll find it from the right supplier and stay engaged through shipment.