The Unseen Bottleneck: Why Plastic Extrusion Decides Whether African Hardware Startups Can Scale

A team in Nairobi or Lagos can now get a PCB fabricated, a housing machined and a carton printed inside a month. What still stalls the launch is rarely the clever part. It is the long, hollow, open-section plastic component that holds everything together: the cable duct, the edge trim, the draw runn