Intellectual Property Protection

OEM's site IP protection as one of the most important factors in their decision to transfer production to China. China Array is fully aware of the importance of this issue and makes every effort to safe guard a customer's intellectual property.

China Array Plastics is a US company and can execute contracts and Nondisclosure Agreements covered by US law. A customer's engineering IP resides at the company's US Engineering Offices. The company has US and Chinese legal advisers that specialize in intellectual property issues.

The injection molding facility in Wuhan is 100% owned by China Array Plastics. In China, tool making and injection molding are kept as separate entities. Workers on the shop floor are generally unaware of a product's end use. Information provided to outside suppliers is limited to the specific sub-component being procured.

Furthermore, China Array's injection molding facilities are located in Wuhan, China, 600 miles inland from the more hyperactive coastal areas around Shanghai, to the east, or Shenzhen and Guangzhou, to the south.

While no company can guarantee 100% IP protection, China Array by understanding the issues involved, being headquartered in the US, maintaining internal fire-walls, and having a geographic buffer from China's coastal areas, can assure an OEM with a relatively high level of certainty that its intellectual property is being protected by China Array.