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A French start-up launching a new innovative consumer device is looking for an industrial partner in Europe through a manufacturing agreement.

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
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
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
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