Do you manufacture acne patches in your own factory or trade through a third party?

Do you manufacture acne patches in your own factory or trade through a third party?

Short answer: We manufacture. Henso runs eight coating lines with working widths from 60 cm to 120 cm. In 2025 we shipped more than 27 million boxes — 216 million sheets, or 25.9 billion individual dots. Those are our own production and shipment figures.

The question is worth asking anyway, because in this category a large share of "factories" are trading offices with a website and a forwarding agent. The good news: the difference is testable in about ten minutes, and it does not require you to trust anyone's About page.

Three checks that separate a line from a middleman

Check
What the answer reveals
Line width, not line count
A trader cannot answer. Width decides how many patches fit one pass, which decides your unit price long before quality comes into it.
Who owns the die
Once you pay the tooling fee the die is yours. A supplier who will not say that is either renting someone else's die or plans to reuse it.
Batch records
Ask for the record of a batch shipped last month, with coating parameters and the in-process checks. Trading offices do not hold these.

What "own factory" actually buys you

Three things change when the person quoting you can walk to the line:

1. Change requests move at production speed. A thickness change or a new die layout is a scheduling decision, not a negotiation between two companies. In practice this is the difference between a two-week sample cycle and a four-week one.

2. Quality conversations reference the same documents. When a batch is questioned, the answer is the coating record and the in-process check sheet, not an email chain with a third party.

3. Tooling stays where you can see it. Your die sits in our workshop, runs only your orders, and can be shipped to you if you move. That sentence is only meaningful if the workshop exists.

Asking without an audit

You do not need to fly to Hangzhou for a first order. Ask for three artefacts and check they are consistent with each other: a factory tour video shot in one take (not a stock clip), a batch record from a recent shipment, and a die drawing with your name on it. Inconsistency between them usually shows up faster than any claim does.

If a visit is on the table, book it against a production day rather than a quiet one, and ask to see the line that will run your thickness. A clean room with no work in progress tells you very little.

The honest limits

"Own factory" is not the same as "does everything". Coating and converting are ours; some printing, pouch making and carton work are done by long-term partners whose quality we carry. That is normal in this industry and we say which is which, because a buyer who discovers it later assumes the worst.

Next step

Send your thickness, shape and monthly volume, and ask for the line width and die ownership in writing. Get a specification review — we answer with the line assignment, not a brochure.