Inside the Wine Cabinet Factory
A wine cabinet factory with eleven stages under one roof in Shunde, Foshan: drawing, cutting, folding, welding, finishing, assembly, cooling, dry fit, inspection, crating and loading. Each stage has its own page because each one is where a cabinet is either right or wrong.
Eleven stages, one address
This matters more than it sounds. When the frame, the glass, the cradle and the cooling come from the same building, a problem has exactly one place to go.
Design and Drawing
A custom cabinet has no size chart to fall back on, so the drawing is the product.
Laser Cutting and Folding
The frame starts as flat 1.2 mm sheet.
Final Assembly
A finished cabinet is a stainless frame, a timber or acrylic interior, glass in the door frames, and a compressor in its bay.
Surface Finishing
The finish is the decision clients change most often and understand least.
Glass and Door Construction
A cooled cabinet is a warm room, a cold box and one material in between.
Cooling Assembly and Testing
The compressor is the one component that will need attention in year five, so it is the one component we refuse to make proprietary.
Inspection and Quality Control
Quality control is not a final inspection.
Packing and Crating
A 4 m wine wall arrives as six numbered modules, not as one object.
Lead Times, Freight and Export
Production is 25 to 45 days depending on cooling and finish.
Warranty and Spare Parts
A warranty is a promise about a part you can actually get.
Photographs from the workshop
Not styled and not lit for a camera: units standing in the hall, a frame checked flat on protective sheeting, a cabinet photographed full of bottles before it is packed. This is what the eleven stages look like between stages.
What leaves the building
- Made in
- Shunde, Foshan, China — frame, finish and assembly in one workshop
- Frame
- 18 mm stainless sightline, folded to the measured wall
- Materials
- Stainless steel, tempered or low-E glass, felt-lined bottle cradle
- Cooling
- Embraco compressor, 110 V / 60 Hz for the US, 220–240 V elsewhere
- Production
- 30 to 40 days after the 50% production deposit, quoted per project
- Delivery
- Crated, collected by your forwarder, with a numbered setting-out drawing
- Installation
- By your fitter, to our drawing; we dry-fit and inspect before crating
Honest limits
Six photographs of the floor are not a factory tour. Still missing from this site: the welding bay mid-arc, the finishing line, the crate bay and the loading bay.
No stock photography
Every image here, workshop or finished work, comes out of our own archive. Where a stage has no usable photograph yet, the page says so rather than borrowing a picture of somebody else's factory.
No invented capacity figures
We quote a production range of 30 to 40 days per project instead of a monthly output number, because the range is what a customer can hold us to.
No certifications we do not hold
Where a market needs a certificate, we say so on the page for that market instead of implying it everywhere.
Ask a factory question
Cutting tolerance, weld finish, crate size, or how the cooling is serviced. Ask directly and the answer comes from the person who runs the stage.