How to Start Belt & Buckles Making Business

Belt buckles manufacturing business can be initiated from a home location and on a part-time or full-time basis. Many sports team, business houses, and other professions often create their own customized belt buckles with other apparel items like T-shirts, caps, etc. Here in this article, find a detailed guide on the steps to follow to start a successful belt and buckles-making manufacturing business.

Belt buckles are also considered fashion and lifestyle accessories. The ideas are really endless when it comes to personalized belt buckles. There is really a huge scope to experiment with color, shape, and size. You can make a belt buckle according to the existing design or suggested by your client, or some new designs with different shapes and colors.

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Any individual having a true passion for creating new designs and patterns can initiate this business with proper planning and moderate capital investment. Other than personalized belt buckles, there is also a large market for normal belt buckles also.

Steps to Start Belt & Buckles Manufacturing Business

Create a Business Plan

Crafting a business plan is important in making belt buckles. Do some market research prior. You need to determine what type of belt buckles you will be making initially.

There are different types of belt buckles are available in the market. Such as frame-style, plate-style, box-style etc. Who will be your target niche? What will be your marketing strategy and expenses? What will be your business objective and mission statement?

In financial planning calculate your startup budget with raw material and equipment costs. If you are planning to start hiring manpower, then you need to calculate the same also. Calculate an expected revenue return. This will definitely give you confidence about the business feasibility and will also help you in arranging finance.

Equipment & Process

Normally you will need to have different molds, a small furnace, a centrifugal casting machine, a polishing machine, and a packing machine. Other than this you will need to have a computer, printer, and some software to make high-resolution patterns and designs. These are normally required for making metal belt buckles.

For a resin-embedded belt buckle, you will need to have small disposable mixing containers, stir sticks, latex gloves, a color printer, photo editing software, and scissors

Machinery and equipment should be selected rightfully according to the desired product quality and quantity.

Metal Belt Buckles Manufacturing Process

• The first step is the pattern. After finalizing the design you need to take a design printout. Only high-resolution digital photos (2-3MB quality) can be used for this work.
• Need to create the master pattern based on the designer’s drawings.
• Then you need to go for silicone molds.  On completion, the silicon forms are separated and then dressed to become the mold for your belt buckles.
• The metals are melted down in a furnace. The mold is seated in a centrifugal casting machine. In a dressed mold a channel is cut into the surface of the mold.
• The raw casting needs to takeout from the mold.
• The final step is polishing and packing.

Promote Your Business

First create your marketing tools like business cards, brochures, catalogs, etc. Simply you can contact personally all the business corporations that have a requirement for personalized belt buckles.

Register your business with B2B online marketplaces. Create your own website featuring attractive belt buckles designs. Ask your clients to give feedback. You can also establish a business tie-up with belt manufacturers to get clients.