OEM · ODM
Five plants, one supply chain.
Nothing here is sold from a catalogue. Every sole is made to a customer's drawing, sample or performance brief, and the compounding, foaming, injection and tooling that go into it all sit inside the group rather than behind a subcontractor.
Tooling and moulding under the same roof.
The mould shop is ours. So is the compounding, the foaming and the injection. Being our own shoe sole mould manufacturer is why a tread revision here takes days rather than a purchase order cycle at an outsole manufacturer that subcontracts its tooling.
In-House Mould Shop
Wood carving through CNC in a dedicated 4,000 m² tooling plant. Roughly 500 sole moulds per month, so tooling revisions do not queue behind an outside vendor.
Rubber Compounding
Compound preparation, moulding and finishing on one line. In-house formulation means hardness, colour and abrasion targets are tuned rather than sourced.
EVA Pelletising & Foaming
Pelletising, foam processing and foam moulding for EVA sole stock, including the granulation line added in the 2024 expansion.
IP Injection
Material preparation and injection moulding across two plants, dedicated to high-volume programmes with tight tolerance windows.
Combination & Assembly
Dedicated combination lines bonding rubber outsoles to EVA midsoles, plus one-piece moulding where a bond line is unacceptable.
Custom Development
Build to drawing, to sample, or to a performance brief. Non-standard tooling and short development runs are routine, not exceptions.
Five plants around Dongguan.
Tooling, rubber, EVA sole stock, IP injection and TPR each have a dedicated site: a shoe outsole factory group in China rather than one building with a sign on it. Figures below are per plant; they are not a single combined total.
| Plant | Location | Area | Focus | Monthly Pairs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hongcheng Polymer | Daojiao, Dongguan | Not stated | Rubber & EVA soles | RB 700k · EVA 500k |
| Haocheng Mould | Caibai, Daojiao | ~4,000 m² | Sole tooling | ~500 moulds |
| Yongqi Shoe Material | Houjie, Dongguan | ~12,000 m² | Full sole range | RB 450k · IP 500k · EVA 400k |
| Mingcheng Shoe Material | Houjie, Dongguan | ~5,000 m² | IP & foamed rubber | IP 250k · Foam 200k |
| Hongcheng New Material | Houjie, Dongguan | ~4,000 m² | TPR & combination | TPR 300k · Combi 150k |
Four technical leads, one per material system. Between them they have been formulating and moulding soles for longer than most of the factories they compete with have existed.
Foam formulation and the behaviour of EVA sole stock over its service life
Injection tooling, process windows and shop-floor management
RB formulation, product development and mould development
Fine-cell foaming, compression moulding and full-process control
The numbers before the conversation.
Most sole factories answer MOQ and tooling cost with “please enquire”. Here is what the industry charges, so you can budget a programme today, and exactly which of those figures we will put our name to for your sole.
| Term | Industry reference | Hongsole |
|---|---|---|
| MOQ, existing tooling | 500 pairs per colour | 1,000 pairs per colour |
| MOQ, new tooling | 500–1,000 pairs per colour, 1,000 per style | 2,000 pairs per style, 1,000 per colour |
| Sampling, existing tooling | 7–15 days | Within 10 days |
| Tooling lead time | 15–30 days | Within 15 days |
| Development sample incl. new tooling | 4–6 weeks | 3–4 weeks |
| Mould approval to finished goods | 45–90 days, volume dependent | 30–60 days, volume dependent |
| Aluminium outsole mouldCharged per size, not per style; confirmed for our tooling. A full size run means a dozen moulds or more. | US$350–500 per mould | On enquiry |
| Tooling material | Rubber in steel, EVA in aluminium | Steel for rubber, aluminium for EVA |
| Tooling amortisationAsk early; it changes the true cost of a programme more than unit price does. | Some factories refund against production volume | Refunded in full at 100,000 pairs |
| Mould ownershipThe term overseas brands most often discover too late. | Agreed per contract before tooling is cut | Set by contract before tooling is cut |
Need the full specification sheet?
Hardness windows, tooling terms, size ranges and lead times for your sole system, sent as a PDF.
Where to check the working parts.
The link in the chain that matters most is the oldest one: thein-house mould shop, which is why a tread revision here is an engineering decision rather than a subcontractor's queue. What a set of outsole moulds should cost, from us or from anyone else, is set out inthe tooling-cost guide, with the industry reference ranges named as such. And the sixsole systems those plants run are each documented to their own spec envelope, down to the hardness window we hold in production.
Questions buyers ask about this
What is your minimum order quantity?
1,000 pairs per colour on existing tooling. Where new tooling is cut, 2,000 pairs per style with 1,000 per colour. Both the first order and the annual expectation are worth stating in an enquiry; they price differently.
Who owns the mould once we have paid for it?
Ownership, storage and transfer are set by contract before tooling is cut, and the tooling charge itself is refunded in full once a programme reaches 100,000 pairs. Raise both in your first enquiry; they are the terms overseas brands most often discover too late.
Can you supply across several sole systems for one collection?
Yes. Five plants around Daojiao and Houjie cover tooling, rubber, EVA sole stock, IP injection and TPR/combination work, so a collection mixing a rubber outdoor sole with a TPR casual sole is one supply chain rather than three suppliers.
Scoping a programme?
Send the sole system, the size run and your annual expectation. We come back with a written quotation and a development schedule.