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Hardware manufacturers in Guangdong with a collected record, each traced through company registry records, production licence records, regulatory filings and patent filings. Licence status reflects the lists as published on 11 October 2026.

Capacity gap between licensed and unlicensed plants
3%

A production licence barely predicts how big a factory is. The 13 plants with an STMA production licence on file have a median declared output of 119.0M units a year; the 21 with no licence found sit at 116.0M, a gap of just 3%. Plants of serious size are operating on both sides of the list, which is why the licence column and the capacity column have to be read separately.

Annual capacity by licence status
All 34 tracked factories, split into those that appear on China's STMA production-licence list and those that do not.
Whether the plants holding a production licence are the big ones.
Each mark: one licence group: pale bar is p10 to p90, darker bar the middle half, bold tick the median.
How to read: Replaces a dot-per-factory swarm that rendered as a blob. Read the distance between the two median ticks.
STMA licensedNo production licence found
p10 to p90 (the outer tenths trimmed)middle half (p25 to p75)median, labelled on the mark
The medians are 3% apart and the spreads overlap almost completely, so licence status is not a proxy for scale. Capacity is a filing figure, not measured output.
Source: Production licence records; manufacturer directories; environmental impact filings

All 34 factories with a collected record

One row per plant. A defendant count is a case filed, not a case lost.

STMA production licence
Province
Export licence
All 34 factories, nothing hidden

Capacity, patent and litigation counts come from public filings and may lag reality by a reporting cycle. A blank licence cell means no entry was found in the published list, not that none exists.

1,235 manufacturers named in government registers

Each of these is a company a European authority named as the manufacturer, or as the single entry in a register field that covers the manufacturer and the importer at once, in a published product notification. Capacity, licences, patents and litigation are uncollected for all of them — the table above does not describe them.

1,235 manufacturers on the record, published by 2 authorities. The 60 below are ranked by how much a register actually states about them — links an authority stated outright first, then total links. The rest carry a page each and are listed in the sitemap; nothing is hidden, and a long table of near-identical rows helps nobody.