How to find a manufacturing match

The Scrigit Scraper sought a home.

Jay Feinberg needed a manufacturer who could make his plastic scraper tool with a pocket clip in one piece.

Feinberg, based in Maryland, started searching online for manufacturers and found one of interest in Pennsylvania. He toured the manufacturing plant but learned it couldn't do the packaging in-house and would have to ship it elsewhere for that part of the process. He found other manufacturers near him, but most didn't deal with lower-volume quantities, below about 100,000 items. Some didn't even return his phone calls.