Summary
- Profile Type
- Business request
- POD Reference
- BRFR20240723007
- Term of Validity
- 23 July 2024 - 23 July 2025
- Company's Country
- France
- Type of partnership
- Supplier agreement
- Outsourcing agreement
- Targeted Countries
- Portugal
- Estonia
- Latvia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Serbia
- Romania
- North Macedonia
- Hungary
- Bulgaria
- Poland
- France
- Lithuania
- Croatia
- Czechia
- Slovenia
- Slovakia
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General information
- Short Summary
- A French startup located in Paris is looking for a reliable industrial partner to produce and assemble its innovative automatic shuffling and dealing machine for home card players. It will use several technologies such as electronics, plastic moulding, metal stamping and forming, CNC machining, spray masking. A manufacturing agreement shall be considered.
- Full Description
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The French start-up has created and developed an innovative automatic shuffling and dealing machine for home card players.
This device can offer huge possibilities:
- Shuffles and deals for fun, fast and fair games
- Guaranteed 100% random card distribution
- Many presets : all poker variants, bridge, blackjack, rummy...
- Effortless and faster than hand shuffling - no dexterity required
This new product will be sold in European countries and the United States.
3 customer segments can be targeted :
• Regular poker players - global trend, 5 million regular home players in the US alone
• Social card players, especially when dexterity is an issue
• Beyond card players, large opportunity in the high-end gift market
Already 2,000 subscribers and 100+ pre-reservations.
To bring production close to its headquarters and control industrial quality, the French start-up is looking for a reliable and fully-integrated industrial partner via a manufacturing agreement. - Stage of Development
- Lab tested
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
- IPR description
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Mechanical
- Machining of plastic injection molds
- Precision plastic injection
- Stamping/cutting and forming of metal (steel) sheets
- CNC machining (steel, aluminium and wood)
- Painting with masking spray
Electronics
- Precision pad printing
- Assembly of electronic cards (SMD and THT)
Assembly
- Electrical assemblies
- Assembly by riveting and/or screwing metal and plastic parts
- Mechanical calibration
Functional test
Packaging
- Manufacture of cardboard packaging boxes and inserts
- Printing of notice
The industrial partner will be able to:
- Either master all skills involved in the production process
- Or master most of the key skills, including mechanical assembly, and act as a fully-integrated manufacturer, coordinating the production with other local partners who will bring added value and complementary products and technology.
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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The industrial partner will implement the useful technologies with an excellent quality of production based on high technical specifications and a sustainable industrial approach. The final products must conform to EC and FCC standards.
A full manufacturing pack is available (CAD, BOM, specifications). Some adjustments to the pack may be made based on the specification of the industrial partner's equipment. - Type and Size of Partner
- SME 50 - 249
- Big company
- SME 11-49
- SME <=10
- Type of partnership
- Supplier agreement
- Outsourcing agreement
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 02002013 - Moulding, injection moulding, sintering
- 02002010 - Machining (turning, drilling, moulding, planing, cutting)
- 02002005 - Forming (rolling, forging, pressing, drawing)
- 02002007 - Joining techniques (riveting, screw driving, gluing)
- Market keywords
- 07001003 - Toys and electronic games
- Sector Groups Involved
- Creative Industries
- Targeted countries
- Portugal
- Estonia
- Latvia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Serbia
- Romania
- North Macedonia
- Hungary
- Bulgaria
- Poland
- France
- Lithuania
- Croatia
- Czechia
- Slovenia
- Slovakia