"We are a manufacturer" is the most over-used sentence in this category. Capacity is not a number on a website; it is the set of processes a supplier owns, and the ones they subcontract.
A kids scooter is deceptively simple: a deck, a stem, a T-bar, three wheels, a light board and a carton. Making one properly requires six processes, and most "factories" own only two or three of them.
| Process | What it makes | If it is subcontracted |
|---|---|---|
| Injection moulding | Deck, wheel hub, light board housing, front figure | Colour matching and shell revisions take weeks instead of days |
| Tube cutting and bending | Stem, T-bar, fork | Wall thickness drifts between suppliers |
| Welding and grinding | Fork, folding joint | Joint play appears — the number one warranty claim |
| Painting or anodising | Stem finish | Batch colour drift between orders |
| Assembly | Finished scooter | Usually in-house even in small workshops |
| Packing | Carton, print, count | Count errors and carton damage |
When you ask a supplier "do you have your own moulds?", you are really asking about the first row. Whoever owns the shell mould controls colour changes, revisions and delivery dates. If the mould belongs to a third party, a "new colour" is not a decision your supplier can make alone.
Children's scooters are not made evenly across China. Four regions dominate, and each has a different strength:
The region matters because it sets the ceiling on what your supplier can fix locally. A Hebei cluster supplier can swap a wheel supplier in a morning; a trading company in another province cannot.
Capacity claims are easy to test with arithmetic. One assembly station produces roughly 120-160 scooters per shift. A workshop with 8 stations running one shift therefore makes about 1,000 units a day, which is about 4,600 pieces — one 40HQ — every four to five days.
If a supplier claims 30,000 pieces a month, that implies roughly 200,000 square feet of assembly floor and 40+ stations, or several partner workshops. Either is possible — but the answer tells you whether you are buying from a line or from an order book.
Concretely for this range: the same platform carries 24 shells — from the V6333 character-front 3-wheel to the V6166 wide-deck model — with the same 50 kg load, 3-8 year age band and light-up PU wheels. What changes between them is the shell and the carton, which is exactly the sort of variation a mould owner can offer and a reseller cannot.
Ask which tests are run in-house and which are sent out. In-house in this category normally covers structural load, joint fatigue, wheel spin and light-board function. Third-party labs handle anything your market requires for import — and the certificate must name your model, not a similar one. We do not claim certificates we do not hold: if your market needs a specific test report, tell us at quotation stage and we will confirm what is available for that shell before you pay a deposit.
Straight answers to what buyers ask before the first order.
One assembly station produces roughly 120-160 scooters per shift, so an 8-station workshop makes about 1,000 units a day — one 40HQ every four to five days.
The main clusters are Pingxiang in Hebei (children's vehicles), Guangdong (electronics and premium frames), Jiangsu and Zhejiang (aluminium frames), and Shandong (volume plastics).
Ask directly. Mould ownership decides who can change a colour way, revise a shell or move a delivery date. If a third party owns the mould, your supplier cannot decide alone.
Yes, and it is the normal way to buy. Every model in this range packs 10 pieces to a carton at 0.139-0.141 CBM, so mixing shells does not change the roughly 4,600 pieces per 40HQ.
We do not claim certificates we do not hold, and in Pingxiang the picture is uneven: some factories hold a current EN71 or CE report for a specific model, others have never tested it. So we check model by model. Tell us your destination at quotation stage and we tell you which shells can ship on an existing report, which need a fresh test through a third-party lab (SGS, BV or Intertek) before loading, and which we would rather not quote for that market.
Send the models and quantity you have in mind. You get carton size, CBM, gross weight and FOB Tianjin price in writing, usually within one working day.