One roof, from coil to crate
Cutting, forming, welding, grinding, finishing and packing happen on the same floor. Nothing is subcontracted to a workshop down the road, which is the only reason we can tell you why a lead time slipped.
On the floor
Four operations, in this order
The photographs below are our own line, not a stock library. What each step actually decides is written underneath.
01 · Cut
Step one
Cut and blank
Every part starts as a flat pattern generated from the production drawing. Stainless moves when you cut it — more than mild steel, and in ways that only show up two operations later. The blanking allowance is set per gauge and per bend radius, not copied from a previous job.
This is where a 2 mm error becomes a 6 mm gap on the finished door. We check the first blank of every batch against the drawing before the run continues.
- Equipment
- CNC guillotine shear, plasma and laser profiling
- Checked here
- Flat-pattern dimensions, sheet grade stamp, skin gauge against the panel spec
- Failure it prevents
- Door-to-carcass gaps and countertop overhangs that cannot be closed on site
02 · Form
Step two
Form and fit
Bends, returns, handle reveals and the corner geometry that decides whether a cabinet looks like furniture or like equipment. The press brake operator here is not following a generic program — the tooling for each door profile is set for that profile, and the same operator runs the whole batch so the last door matches the first.
Formed parts are dry-fitted before welding. Finding an interference at this stage costs an hour; finding it after finishing costs the part.
- Equipment
- CNC press brakes, dedicated tooling for door and frame profiles
- Checked here
- Bend angles, corner squareness, dry-fit of door against carcass
- Failure it prevents
- Doors that rack, reveals that vary along a run, panels that will not close flush
03 · Join
Step three
Weld and grind
Two different joints, chosen deliberately: a welded and ground seamless corner where the design wants the material to read as one continuous surface, and a mechanical joint with a designed reveal where it does not. The second is not a cheaper compromise — on many profiles it is the correct answer, and it is what keeps a flat-packed container economically viable.
Welding distortion is controlled by sequence and by clamping, not by grinding afterwards. Grinding hides a problem; it does not remove it.
- Equipment
- TIG welding stations, seam and corner grinding
- Checked here
- Weld penetration, corner flushness under a straight edge, no heat discolouration left in the finish
- Failure it prevents
- Visible seams under a cured finish, oil-canning on large flat panels
04 · Finish
Step four
Finish and verify
Powder coating and heat-transfer wood grain are the two finishes we run as standard. Both are cured onto the panel rather than applied as a film on top of it, which is why they outlast the plating, nano colour oil and anti-fingerprint coatings that were standard on earlier stainless kitchen work — those are industrial answers to an industrial problem, and they wear through where a home actually touches a door.
Panels are finished in the same batch, then inspected under angled light rather than straight down, because that is how a customer will see them in a showroom. A set of doors finished in two batches reads as two different colours, even from the same powder tin.
Final inspection happens with the unit assembled, not as loose panels, so the thing we photograph before packing is the thing you open.
- Equipment
- Powder coating line, heat-transfer grain press, curing oven, inspection bench
- Checked here
- Colour and grain consistency across the batch, coating adhesion, hardware operation, full assembly
- Failure it prevents
- Panel-to-panel colour shift, coating failure in a wet zone, wood grain running the wrong way on a pair of doors
Capacity
What the floor can actually take
Numbers we are willing to be held to. Anything outside these limits we will tell you at quotation, not after the drawing is approved.
Maximum panel length
Up to 8,000 mm
The machine will do it. Whether it ships as one piece is a transport and installation question, not a production one.
Steel grade
304 · 316
316 quoted for coastal, marine and high-chloride environments
Surface options
Powder · grain
Powder coating and heat-transfer wood grain, any RAL colour
Hardware
Blum or nominated
European drawer and hinge systems, or the brand your market already trusts
Packing
Flat or assembled
Flat-pack saves container space; assembled units save site labour. Both run on the same floor.
Production halls
Four lines
Cutting, forming, welding and finishing, plus a dedicated assembly and packing bay
The 8 m question
Eight metres is a production figure. It is not a delivery figure.
We can form a stainless panel up to 8,000 mm in one piece, and for the right job that is worth having: a single seamless counter face, a tall run with no horizontal joint, a wall panel that does not read as a series of modules. There is no technical reason to split it.
There are, however, three practical reasons it often still gets split — and we raise them at quotation rather than after the drawing is approved.
- It has to get into the container. A 40 ft container is 12,032 mm long internally but only 2,352 mm wide. A panel longer than about 5,800 mm will not go in through the door diagonally at any realistic panel width — which means the 8 m capability is mostly a domestic and short-sea advantage, not a deep-sea one.
- It has to get up the stairs. A single 8 m piece cannot turn a stair corner, cannot enter a standard lift, and cannot pass a 900 mm door frame upright. On anything above the ground floor, a join is usually decided by the building rather than by us.
- One damaged 8 m panel is a whole 8 m panel. Flat-packed shorter sections can be replaced individually. A single long piece is replaced in full, and ships in full — which is why our packing spec treats very long panels as a separate risk class.
Packing
Flat-pack or assembled — it is a cost decision, not a quality one
The unit is built the same way either way. What changes is who does the assembly and who pays for the empty space.
Flat-packed
Panels, doors and hardware crated flat. The container carries cabinets instead of air, so the freight per unit drops — often by enough to matter on a 40-unit programme. The trade-off is site labour: someone has to assemble it, and that someone needs the drawing and a competent fitter.
We pre-drill, pre-fit and mark every part against its position, and photograph the assembled unit before it is broken down. Flat-pack does not mean a box of loose panels.
- — Lowest freight cost per unit; the container is filled, not padded
- — Parts replaceable individually if one is damaged
- — Requires a fitter on site and a longer install programme
Assembled
The unit arrives as a box, crated and braced, ready to be set in place. Installation becomes positioning rather than building — which matters when the labour on site costs more than the space in the container, and it matters a great deal on a finished project where a site crew cannot be trusted with a door gap tolerance.
You pay for the volume the cabinet occupies rather than the volume its panels would occupy, and the crate is heavier. On long runs and on high-labour-cost markets it is frequently the cheaper route in total.
- — Shortest install time; the tolerance was set in our plant, not on site
- — No assembly skill required at destination
- — Higher freight per unit; damage is to a whole unit, not one panel
Inspection
What gets checked, and when
Seven points where a defect can still be caught cheaply.
Incoming material
Grade stamp and thickness verified against the order. A 304 sheet substituted for 316 is the single most expensive mistake in this industry, and it is invisible until the coast gets to it.
First blank of each batch
Measured against the production drawing before the run proceeds. One part checked saves a batch remade.
Dry fit before welding
Door against carcass, drawer box in its runner, appliance housing against the appliance schedule. Interference found here is an adjustment; found later it is scrap.
Weld and corner check
Flushness under a straight edge, and a heat-tint inspection before the panel goes for coating — a tint buried under powder is a tint nobody can see or fix.
Surface under angled light
Every panel in a job checked together, side by side, in the direction a customer will look at it. Not one panel at a time under a work lamp.
Full assembly before packing
Unit built up, hardware operated, photographs taken. The photographs are sent to you before the container is sealed — not after it arrives.
Photograph record before the carton closes
Every packed unit is photographed sealed and labelled, against its unit code. This is the reference we compare your unpacking recording against when a claim comes in — the carton looks the same in both, or it does not.
If it arrives damaged
One rule, and it is not negotiable
A claim has to establish that the damage happened in transit. Only an unbroken unpacking recording can do that.
We settle transit damage, and we do it without an argument, on one condition: we have to be able to see that it was already broken when the carton was opened. Not that it broke later. Not that it broke during fitting. A photograph taken after the unit is on the floor cannot answer that question — by then the carton is gone, the crate is broken down, and there is no way to tell a shipping impact from a dropped door.
So the requirement is a single continuous recording, from the sealed carton to the damaged part, with nothing cut out. It is an awkward thing to ask a site crew to do. It is also the only thing that separates an honest claim from a dispute, and it protects the buyer as much as it protects us: a claim with a clean recording is settled on the first email, and a claim without one cannot be settled at all.
If your receiving team has never done this before, the six points opposite are the whole procedure. Print them, tape them to the goods-in desk, and the first damaged delivery stops being a negotiation.
- Start with the carton, sealed and labelled. The label carries the unit code, and the code is what makes the claim traceable to a production batch. Film it before anyone touches the tape.
- Keep the camera running from the first cut. One continuous take through to the damaged surface. Stopping and restarting the recording is the single most common reason a claim gets rejected — a cut in the file is indistinguishable from a cut in the facts.
- Show the outer packaging before you open it. All four sides and the top. If the crate is crushed, dented or wet, that damage is the evidence, and it has to appear in the same take as the part.
- Film the unpacking, not the unpacked. Foam, corner protectors, stretch wrap, the internal bracing — the removal of each layer is part of the proof.
- Hold on the damage for long enough to read it. Four or five seconds, close, with the unit code visible in shot. A two-second pan across a dent settles nothing.
- Do not fit, bend or repair anything first. A part that has been straightened, re-welded or installed can no longer be assessed as transit damage, and we will have to treat it as a site issue.
Window
48 hours from delivery
Send the recording and the carton photographs within two days of the goods arriving, before the packaging is discarded.
What we need
Video, photos, unit code
The unpacking video, stills of the carton damage and of the part, and the unit code from the label.
What we do
Replace, credit or repair
Replacement part in the next shipment, a credit against the invoice, or a repair by a local fabricator to our drawing.
What we cannot do
Cover fitting damage
Damage from handling on site, from cutting or drilling, or from installing against an out-of-square wall is not a transit claim.
Walkthrough
Ninety seconds on the floor
A short cut of the actual line — shearing, forming, welding, finishing and packing, in sequence. No music track over stock footage, no showroom shots, no captions claiming numbers we cannot show you.
If you would rather see it live, we can arrange a video call from the floor during your working hours and walk the camera past the job that is running that week.
Buyers usually want one number before they trust a floor: what can it actually produce in a month? The honest answer depends on mix, so we quote it per family rather than as a single figure — but a flat-pack wardrobe programme of 40 units uses roughly the same press and weld hours as one curved commercial counter, which is why those two lead times differ by weeks and not days.
Factory walkthrough
01:30 · Four operations, one take
Credentials
Who you are actually buying from
BOGEQI is the cabinet brand of Guangdong Zebra Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., part of Hongyusheng Group — in stainless steel since 2007, making cabinets since 2020. The group supplies the material discipline; the brand supplies the design and the cabinet engineering.
That distinction matters on a purchase order. The contracting entity, the bank details and the invoice name are the company, not the brand — check them against the quotation before you wire anything.
| Legal entity | Guangdong Zebra Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. |
|---|---|
| Brand | BOGEQI · 博格奇 |
| Group | Hongyusheng Group — stainless steel processing and trading since 2007, group since 2017 |
| Location | Foshan, Guangdong, China |
| Plant area | 13,000 m² in operation · 40,000 m² base commissioning 2027 |
| Ranking | #51, 2026 Foshan Top 100 Enterprises |
Before you book a visit
What buyers ask after they see the line
These are the four questions that come up in almost every factory call. The answers here are the ones our sales desk gives — not a brochure version.
Can I send my own drawings, or do I buy your designs?
Both. Roughly half of our output is OEM and private label built to a customer's own drawings or sample; the rest is our six in-house series, which you can specify as they are or adapt. What we need either way is a dimensioned drawing or a physical sample — a photo alone is not enough to hold a 3 mm door gap.
How long does a first order actually take?
Sample and shop-drawing approval takes about two weeks from a complete brief. Production runs four to six weeks after that, depending on finish and hardware lead times, plus sea freight. We quote the dates in writing on the order confirmation, and we would rather give you a longer honest date than a short one we miss.
What is the minimum order?
A single kitchen is enough to start — one full set of cabinet bodies, doors and worktops. The minimum exists to make the tooling and the finishing line worth setting up, not to force a container. If you are testing the market, we will tell you plainly whether a small run makes commercial sense or whether you should wait and consolidate.
Can I check quality before the goods ship?
Yes, at three points. In-process checks happen at each of the four operations; a pre-assembly trial fit happens before packing, so a wrong panel is caught in Foshan rather than on your site; and you or your agent are welcome to a pre-shipment inspection. We send photo and video records of the trial fit as standard. Book a factory call and we will walk you through what the report contains.
Next step
Come and look at it
A video call from the floor, a physical sample, or a visit to Foshan — whichever gets you to a decision faster. We would rather spend an hour showing you the line than a month answering questions about it.