Hutchins Industrial Sourcing

A technical sourcing partner for mining and heavy industry.

Equipment, chemicals, and materials, sourced by a chemical engineer in the US and an infrastructure operator in China.

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80+
Suppliers on our register
20
Equipment categories
In person
Factory visits in China
What we do

One point of contact, start to finish.

Crushers and grinding mills, magnetic separators, drills, haul trucks, reactors and filter presses, lithium products and processing reagents. Mining, metals processing, cleantech, and heavy civil. See more of what we source.

01

Supplier discovery & vetting

Working out who actually builds the equipment. Our register covers 80+ suppliers across 20 equipment categories, and we have walked factories ourselves.

How we vet suppliers
02

Technical sourcing, RFQs & negotiation

Writing the spec, running the RFQ across multiple suppliers, leveling the quotes to one comparable number, and negotiating price and terms.

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03

Procurement & order support

An extension of your procurement function after the order is placed. Documentation, certifications and test reports, production follow-up, and in-country inspection before goods leave the factory.

How a job runs
In the field

Factory visits and field work.

Production floor of a Chinese equipment manufacturer during a supplier visit
Factory visit
Magnetic separation equipment on a factory floor in China
Equipment in build
Production line running at a Chinese equipment manufacturer during a supplier visit
Production line
Interior of a large manufacturing hall at a supplier's plant
Plant scale
Why us

What we bring.

Sourcing with technical depth.

Picking the right equipment takes more than matching a spec sheet. It takes understanding the process the equipment runs in and the conditions it has to hold up under. We bring that to the sourcing conversation, not just a vendor list and a price.

Relationships that hold up.

Warranty terms, spare parts, service calls, how fast someone picks up when something goes wrong. Those follow the relationship more than the purchase order. We work through people we know and we keep coming back, which is what gets a call answered.

One inquiry, wide scope.

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.

Projects

Delivered in China. Extended to you.

Our China-side partner has personally delivered these projects. That work is where our access to Chinese industrial manufacturers comes from.

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Tell us what you need.

Send us your spec. We will find it from the right supplier and hold the factory to what it committed to build.