Chaozhou, China — tableware & drinkware

Design-led tableware for modern living.

Private label tableware for brands, retailers and importers.
Designed around real market feedback. Made in Chaozhou, China.

Clear ribbed borosilicate glass cup standing on a decorated ceramic saucer, on a warm wooden surface.

Borosilicate glass cup & decorative ceramic saucer — 200 ml / 6.8 oz, the same cup across seven saucer patterns.

Collections

Selected collections.

A selection from our current range — mixed-material drinkware, pattern-led cups and ceramic cookware. This is a curated view rather than our full factory catalogue. Ask us about additional shapes and patterns.

Handleless ceramic cup filled with a latte, standing on a wooden table.

Breakfast & latte cups

Flora Handleless Cup

A handleless ceramic cup with the Flora pattern, for breakfast service and café menus.

Specifications and availability are confirmed on enquiry.
Glazed ceramic casserole with its patterned lid on a dark textured background.

Cookware & serving

Lotus Ceramic Casserole

A glazed ceramic casserole with a patterned lid, developed in two sizes.

Specifications and availability are confirmed on enquiry.

Why we work this way

Made to be noticed. Built to move.

Good design gets a product noticed. It does not tell you whether it will sell.

For that you need volume in the market: a pattern on a shelf, a set in someone's hands, a reorder — or none of those. Our production is arranged around getting that answer quickly, because a design is only as good as the market's response to it.

How the model works
Handleless ceramic cup filled with a latte, standing on a wooden table.

Our model

Test. Learn. Replenish.

Our production model was shaped by China's fast-moving live-commerce market, where a design either sells in its first weeks or is pulled.

  1. Test

    Test

    New shapes and patterns are produced in controlled quantities, on a short cycle.

  2. Learn

    Learn

    Sell-through, reorders and what customers actually say decide which designs continue.

  3. Replenish

    Replenish

    Proven designs are reordered to the specification that was already agreed and produced.

Top view of a decorated ceramic saucer showing the full pattern.

Private label

Your brand, on shapes that already work.

Start from a shape we already produce and develop the pattern, colour, branding and packaging around it. The tooling is done; the range becomes yours.

  • Custom patterns on existing shapes
  • Custom colours and decoration
  • Logo application
  • Retail and gift packaging
  • Product development
  • Repeat production of proven designs

Made in Chaozhou

Manufacturing rooted in Chaozhou.

Chaozhou has been making ceramics for centuries, and the skills around the city — forming, glazing, decoration, firing — are deep and local.

ZLEELIFE has tableware product development and manufacturing capability there. Specialised partners work alongside us for the processes a range needs, which is what a ceramics cluster is for. Short distances between a design decision and a finished sample are how the model stays fast.

  • Ceramic forming
  • Glazing and decoration
  • Firing
  • Sample development
  • Quality control
  • Packaging
More about manufacturing
Glazed ceramic casserole standing on a woven wooden trivet.
Close-up of the textured surface of a ceramic casserole body.

Next step

Looking for your next tableware collection?

Tell us your market, your channel and the price point you are working to. We will come back with shapes, patterns and timings.