At the heart of Pi Green’s Carbon Cutter is a drum assembly that demands precise fabrication, critical tolerance controls, and robust surface treatments. While the team had an early supplier network in place, they soon found themselves constrained by limited production capacity and inconsistent quality.

Dry Film Thickness (DFT) for painting and coating posed another challenge — with environmental performance directly tied to the quality of surface finish. Moreover, the lack of a strong supplier base made it difficult to react quickly to scale-up demands or resolve process bottlenecks. They needed not just a vendor, but a manufacturing partner who could co-own the problem.