See the floor your order runs on — before you pay a deposit.
We do not own factories, and we think that is the point: it lets us place each product where it is genuinely made well. What we do own is the audit, the inspection and the report. Here is exactly how a Petlland factory earns a place in your programme, and how we keep it honest once production starts.
Audited partner factories across 9 categories
Inspection stages on every production order
Default major-defect standard
Auditing pet factories in the Pearl River Delta since
The five-point audit a factory passes before it sees your artwork
Roughly one in four factories we visit enters the partner base. The four that do not usually fail on documentation or on how they treat rework — not on machinery.
Legal & capacity
Business licence, export record, real headcount, line count and honest monthly capacity — verified on site, not from a PDF.
Social compliance
BSCI audit report or equivalent; working hours, wage records, age verification and dormitory conditions reviewed.
Quality system
ISO 9001 documentation, incoming material checks, calibration records and a defect log that shows real corrective actions.
Material traceability
Where the fabric, TPR, stuffing and board come from, plus test reports for the destination market.
Sample discipline
A trial SKU we pay for ourselves. If round-one feedback is ignored, the factory does not join.
A production run, stage by stage
Incoming material check: fabric weight, fill density and hardware pull strength logged before cutting begins.
First-article approval
The line stops after the first pieces. We compare against the sealed signed sample: dimensions, colour under D65 light, print registration, stitch density. Written go or no-go before the run continues.
Inline audit
Pulled samples re-measured, defect trend charted, photo set sent same day. Corrections happen inside your run rather than in an apology email afterwards.
Pre-shipment AQL inspection
Random sampling per AQL 2.5 major / 4.0 minor, plus category testing: chew and tear resistance, seam pull, colour fastness, zip cycling, small-parts safety.
Load supervision
Carton count and marks verified, drop test on a random master carton, moisture reading, container photographed empty and sealed. Then the report reaches you — before the balance payment is released.
The AQL sampling table we actually inspect against
Single sampling, general inspection level II. Your report always states the lot size, the sample size and the accept/reject numbers, so any third party can re-check our arithmetic.
Lot size (pcs) |
Sample size |
Major · accept / reject |
Minor · accept / reject |
Critical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
91 – 150 |
32 |
2 / 3 |
3 / 4 |
0 / 1 |
151 – 280 |
50 |
3 / 4 |
5 / 6 |
0 / 1 |
281 – 500 |
80 |
5 / 6 |
7 / 8 |
0 / 1 |
501 – 1,200 |
125 |
7 / 8 |
10 / 11 |
0 / 1 |
1,201 – 3,200 |
200 |
10 / 11 |
14 / 15 |
0 / 1 |
3,201 – 10,000 |
315 |
14 / 15 |
21 / 22 |
0 / 1 |
ISO 2859-1 single sampling, level II. Major defects AQL 2.5, minor defects AQL 4.0. Critical defects: zero accepted.
Critical defect
Anything that could injure a pet or a child: exposed wire, detachable squeaker, sharp edge, choking-size part. Zero tolerance, run held.
Major defect
Affects function or sale: broken stitch, wrong size, colour outside tolerance, misprinted barcode, packaging damage.
Minor defect
Cosmetic and unlikely to be noticed at point of sale: light thread end, faint surface mark, minor carton scuff.
Where four suppliers become one shipment
Our Baiyun District warehouse receives, holds and prepares your cargo while the rest of your programme finishes production. Thirty days of free storage, then a single sealed shipment.
- Receiving check against the packing list, with photos of every pallet on arrival.
- Re-cartonisation to cut volumetric weight and match marketplace carton rules.
- Labelling — FNSKU, EAN, country of origin, warning text and master carton marks.
- Loading photos and a sealed container record filed to your order.
Want to walk the floor?
Book a live video tour of a partner factory for your category, or visit us in Guangzhou — we will arrange the schedule and the interpreter.