Best laser cutting service from China serving to US and Europe?
We have been sourcing sheet metal fabrication and some light CNC work domestically for a while but the quotes are getting painful , especially for anything that needs tight tolerances or has a mix of laser cutting plus secondary bending ops . So now I'm seriously looking at going direct to a China-based custom manufacturing service that can actually ship reliably to the US or EU. What I really want to know is which services people have actually used for this, not just heard of. Stuff like whether they handle prototypes and then scale to production runs, whether they have real certifications (ISO 9001 at minimum, AS9100D if it touches anything aerospace-adjacent) and how their DFM feedback actually works in practice. I've contacted maybe 10 companies through Alibaba and the communication alone has been exhausting. If anyone's found a solid China manufacturer for precision sheet metal and CNC parts that ships consistently to western markets , that'd be genuinely useful to hear .