Industrial Supply Sourcing GmbH is the German SALES and SERVICE COMPANY of Hiteco, an Asian supplier that supplies top customers worldwide. Hiteco Ltd. is a private Chinese company with more than 20 employees (four of them German speakers), headquartered in Shanghai (China). Since it was founded in 2004, Hiteco has primarily been supplying drawing parts such as 1. Turned parts 2. Pneumatic cylinder 3. Castings (various processes and materials) 4. Injection molded parts (including WKZ mold construction) 5. Stamped and forged parts to Germany, Europe and the USA. A smaller Hiteco office in North China also deals with wire mesh, perforated sheet metal and building materials. Hiteco is also active in the area of quality and supplier management, ie Hiteco looks after and manages the supplier base in Greater China on behalf of European companies (as an external workbench, so to speak). This includes services such as 1. the quality control before shipment 2. Monitoring supplier performance including supplier development programs in "Greater China", 3. or the search and qualification of new suppliers in China (e.g. for localization projects).