Stamps, draws and machines metal solenoid valve and sensor housings to customer drawings in a Zhuji, China factory. It is listed in the Atlas under Support and made by Zhejiang Balford Mechatronics Co.

OEM buyers sourcing deep drawn solenoid valve and automotive sensor housings

Do people use Balford?

Emerging: ≈ 15 visits/mo · estimate, 2026-10.

Is Balford still maintained?

Actively maintained: release 3 weeks ago · site updated 5 days ago.

Balford is run by Zhejiang Balford Mechatronics Co., per its terms of service (2026-10-14).

Balford

Stamps, draws and machines metal solenoid valve and sensor housings to customer drawings in a Zhuji, China factory.

Support

balford.net ↗LinkedIn Wikidata Crunchbase Launched on Product Hunt · 2026-10-13+2

At a glanceswept 2026-10-13

≈ 15visits/mo

Emerging · estimate, read 2026-10-13

Balford15
#1 Zendesk5.3M
Support median30

For: OEM buyers sourcing deep drawn solenoid valve and automotive sensor housings
Price: Price not read
Activity: Actively maintainedrelease 3 weeks ago · site updated 5 days ago
Company: Zhejiang Balford Mechatronics Co. · since 2017 · ~120 peopleterms of service · per Wikidata · per their site

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What people do with it

source deep drawn solenoid valve housings from China
order stamped and CNC-machined metal components
obtain PPAP-ready parts for production runs

The companyeach fact with its source · read 2026-10-14

Founded2017per Wikidata
People~120per their site ↗
HeadquartersZhujiper Wikidata
Industryindustrial manufacturingper Wikidata

Your datawhat they publish, each line with its page · read 2026-10-14

Run byZhejiang Balford Mechatronics Co.terms of service ↗
Trains on your dataNoprivacy policy ↗
Certifications they stateGDPR · CCPAprivacy policy ↗
Privacy policy updated2026-09-23privacy policy ↗
Security contactsecurity.txt

“We do not run advertising, remarketing, retargeting, social plug-in or cross-site tracking tags on this site; we do not build advertising audiences; and we do not use your data for creditworthiness or to train general AI models.”
privacy policy ↗

These are Balford's own statements, read from its pages. We did not audit them. A line that is missing was not found on the pages we read; it does not mean the practice is absent.

How a program reaches itfound, not claimed · read 2026-10-14

MCP servernet.balford/askverified in the MCP registry
Stateanswers, requires sign-inchecked 2026-10-14
Address to connectbalford.net/ask/mcp

MCP server details →

Each line is something a program found when it went looking: the registry entry, the server's own answer, a spec that parses. A missing line means we did not find it, not that it does not exist.

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What is Balford?
Stamps, draws and machines metal solenoid valve and sensor housings to customer drawings in a Zhuji, China factory. It is listed in the Atlas under Support and made by Zhejiang Balford Mechatronics Co.
Who is Balford for?
OEM buyers sourcing deep drawn solenoid valve and automotive sensor housings
Do people use Balford?
Emerging: ≈ 15 visits/mo · estimate, 2026-10.
Is Balford still maintained?
Actively maintained: release 3 weeks ago · site updated 5 days ago.
Who owns Balford?
Balford is run by Zhejiang Balford Mechatronics Co., per its terms of service (2026-10-14).
Does Balford train AI on your data?
No, per its privacy policy (2026-10-14): “We do not run advertising, remarketing, retargeting, social plug-in or cross-site tracking tags on this site; we do not build advertising audiences; and we do not use your data for creditworthiness or to train general AI models.”
Is Balford safe?
We do not audit vendors. What Balford publishes, read 2026-10-14: GDPR, CCPA stated on its privacy policy; on training with your data, “We do not run advertising, remarketing, retargeting, social plug-in or cross-site tracking tags on this site; we do not build advertising audiences; and we do not use your data for creditworthiness or to train general AI models.”.

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