Who We Are & What We Believe
A Foshan engineering atelier that has spent seventeen years learning one discipline: how to hold wine and cigars at the exact condition they were made for.
The Company Behind the Collections
Guangdong Wine Decoration Warehouse Cellar Engineering Co., Ltd. — trading under the brand VIPHONYA — is a manufacturer, not a trading intermediary. We design, engineer and fabricate stainless steel wine preservation systems, architectural glass wine rooms, Spanish cedar cigar humidors, bar workstations and precision metal racking from a single integrated facility in Foshan, Guangdong.
The company sits inside Lecong Town, Shunde District — a metal cluster that supplies architectural stainless steel to much of China's furniture and fit-out trade. That location is not a marketing detail. It is why we can hold sub-millimetre fabrication tolerances, why our PVD titanium finishes match across separate production batches, and why a replacement component can be cut and shipped inside a week rather than a quarter.
We work almost exclusively on a made-to-order basis. Roughly nine in ten units that leave this facility carry a dimension, a finish or a refrigeration configuration that did not exist before the client asked for it. That is the business we chose: fewer projects, engineered properly, rather than volume with the tolerances sanded off.
Our clients are private cellar owners, restaurant and hospitality groups, developers fitting out amenity floors, and architecture practices that need a metal fabricator able to read a construction set and answer to it. We do not sell from stock. We quote from drawings.
A manufacturer is defined as much by refusal as by capability. We work in four material systems: stainless steel, glass, Spanish cedar and integrated refrigeration. We do not fabricate upholstered furniture, we do not lay a wood-veneer imitation over particle board and call it a solid cellar, and we do not buy finished cabinets from another factory to fill a catalogue page. When a project calls for something outside those four systems, we say so at the first meeting rather than at the fifth revision — and where we can, we point the client to a workshop that does it properly. Saying no early is cheaper for both sides than saying yes and sub-contracting the truth.
Four kinds of client come through this workshop, and each measures us differently. Private cellar owners want a room that looks like architecture and behaves like a laboratory; their test arrives in ten years, when a bottle is opened and has to taste the way it was left. Hotels, restaurants and private clubs need capacity, service access and a cabinet that survives a commercial cleaning schedule without a service call every quarter. Developers and contractors need drawings that match site conditions, a delivery date that holds, and one person who answers the phone. Architects and interior designers need a factory that reads a section drawing, respects a finish schedule, and does not quietly simplify a detail because it was difficult to fold.
Within roughly thirty minutes of the workshop you can reach steel service centres, precision glass tempering, PVD coating, stone cutting and hardware suppliers. This is not a detail about geography; it is a detail about how fast a drawing becomes an object. When an architect asks whether a 12 mm glass return can meet a 40 mm stainless reveal, we can cut both and photograph the joint the same week. In a supply chain spread across three provinces, the same answer takes three weeks and arrives as a promise instead of a sample.
We ship worldwide, with Europe as the principal export market and active programmes in North America and the Middle East. Production lead time runs approximately one month in both peak and off season, and we quote FOB, CIF, CFR and EXW. Repeat business has ranged between 50% and 80% of annual order volume — a figure we publish because it is the only honest measure of whether the last crate was worth opening.
Registered address: No. 2, East Road, Taoist Industrial Zone, Lecong Town, Shunde District, Foshan, Guangdong, China. Business licence and factory audit documentation are available to qualified buyers on request.
What We Hold Ourselves To
We are wary of culture statements that live only on a website. Every principle below is tied to a practice a client can actually audit — a test we run, a document we issue, or a number we publish.
Make the storage invisible, so the collection is all that shows.
A wine room succeeds when the owner stops thinking about the machinery. Every engineering decision we make — where the evaporator sits, how the door gasket seats, how the frame disappears into the wall — serves that single outcome. The equipment should be felt as a condition, not seen as a product.
Be the fabricator architects specify by name, not by price.
We would rather be the second call after the design brief than the fifth quote on a spreadsheet. That means being the partner who can read a construction drawing, flag a conflict before fabrication, and hold a finish schedule across forty units. Reputation on tolerances is the only durable moat in this industry.
- Nothing ships on a sample. We do not release a batch on the strength of one good unit. Finished goods are inspected 100% — every single unit, both visually and functionally, before it is crated. Sampling is how defects reach clients.
- We quote the cost of being wrong. If a design will not hold temperature, we say so before the deposit, not after installation. Losing an order to an honest objection costs us less than a rework on the other side of an ocean.
- One unit is a real order. Our minimum order quantity is one. A private collector commissioning a single cabinet receives the same engineering review, the same inspection record and the same warranty document as a forty-room hotel programme.
- Craft is measurable, or it is decoration. Weld penetration, flatness, coating adhesion and pull-down time are recorded values, not adjectives. If we cannot measure a claim, we do not print it on a specification sheet.
- The relationship outlives the warranty. Between half and four-fifths of our business comes from buyers who ordered before. We treat the thirty-six month warranty as the start of a service obligation, not the end of a sales cycle.
- Say what we cannot do. We decline work outside stainless steel, glass, Spanish cedar and integrated refrigeration. A fabricator who claims every capability usually excels at none, and the client discovers it at commissioning.
Four rules that keep a drawing honest.
- Drawings get a real answer inside 48 hours. Not an acknowledgement. A 3D direction and a fabrication assessment, or a specific list of what is missing before we can give one. Silence is the one response we do not allow ourselves.
- Changes are priced before they are made. A revised finish or dimension gets a written delta and a new date. Nobody should discover the cost of a change on the invoice.
- Samples before production, not after. Finish, weld appearance and glass tint are approved as physical objects. A screen cannot show what 3000 K light does to brushed titanium.
- One named engineer per project. Not a shared inbox. The person who reviewed the drawings is the person who answers when the crate is opened on site.
Three promises, written so they can be checked.
- 48 hours to a 3D direction and a CAD assessment. Or an explicit list of the information we still need in order to produce one.
- 36 months of warranty on the climate system and structure. Honoured through the same engineer who built the file, not a call centre.
- An honest no when a project sits outside our four material systems. With a referral rather than a quotation we cannot deliver.
What we ask in return costs a client nothing but candour: room dimensions that are measured rather than estimated, a decision-maker who can approve a finish, and permission to say when a detail will not work. Projects fail on ambiguity far more often than on capability.
Seventeen Years, One Direction
Founded in Lecong, Foshan
The company begins as a stainless steel fabrication workshop inside the Lecong metal cluster, taking on architectural metalwork and the first custom wine storage commissions for domestic clients.
From metalwork to climate engineering
Refrigeration is brought in-house rather than subcontracted. The product line consolidates around constant-temperature wine cabinets and walk-in cellar rooms, and the first export orders ship to Europe.
Spanish cedar and the cigar line
Cigar humidor production is added, requiring a separate humidity control discipline — stable relative humidity with heating and cooling, not simply cold air. The first combined wine-and-cigar residential projects are delivered.
Facility expansion and PVD finishing
The works expand to 6,600 m² with dedicated cutting, bending, welding, coating and assembly bays. PVD titanium vacuum coating is installed in-house so that colour and finish no longer depend on an outside supplier's batch schedule.
Audited, catalogued, and built for export
Factory verification is completed with TÜV Rheinland. The catalogue is standardised into seven collections covering sixty-four models, while every unit remains configurable to project drawings. Annual capacity reaches 3,000+ custom units.
A factory's history is usually written as a list of expansions. Ours is better understood as a list of things we stopped outsourcing, because each one changed what we could promise. Refrigeration in-house meant we could guarantee a temperature instead of relaying a supplier's claim. Cedar and humidity control meant a humidor was no longer a wine cabinet with a different label. PVD in-house meant a champagne-gold frame could match a champagne-gold reveal produced months later. The next step is not a larger catalogue but a faster drawing response — because response time, not capacity, is what limits a designer's decision.
Three Companies, One Supply Chain
VIPHONYA operates alongside two affiliated companies under common ownership. This is why we can carry a project from bare metal extrusion through to a finished, installed cellar room without handing your drawings to a stranger.
Foshan Viphonya Metal (Stainless Steel) Product Co., Ltd.
The fabrication backbone. Architectural stainless steel profiles, trims and custom metal components, plus the material supply that feeds the cabinet and racking lines.
Guangdong JK Cellar Project Co., Ltd.
The project arm. Site survey, CAD and 3D development, refrigeration specification and installation coordination for turnkey cellar and cigar room programmes.
Royal Metal Ground (HongKong) Limited
The export entity. Handles contracting, letters of credit and freight coordination for overseas clients, which is why we can transact on D/P, T/T, L/C and card terms.
Three entities, one ownership, one engineering standard. The reason to state this on a website is simple: buyers are rightly suspicious of a company that cannot say which legal entity issues the invoice, which one fabricates, and which one answers for installation. We would rather answer that on page one than in a due-diligence email three weeks into a project.
How a Unit Earns Its Crate
Quality control here is not a department at the end of the line. It is four gates, and a unit that fails any one of them does not proceed to the next.
Incoming material verification
Stainless steel grade and thickness are checked against the mill certificate on receipt. Substitute material is the most common hidden failure in this industry and the hardest to detect after coating.
In-process dimensional control
Frame squareness, panel flatness and hinge seating are measured after welding and again after coating, because PVD heat cycles can move a frame that was true on the bench.
Climate performance validation
Each refrigeration circuit is run and monitored for temperature pull-down and holding stability before the cabinet is closed up. Humidity-controlled cigar units are validated separately for RH recovery after door opening.
100% finished-goods inspection
Every unit — not a sample — is inspected visually and functionally before crating, under a written inspection procedure. Results are recorded per unit and can be supplied with the shipment.
What a buyer can ask for. Material certificates for the stainless grade used; the inspection record for a specific unit; PVD finish samples; the glass build-up specification; refrigeration specification and electrical requirements for the destination market; and the packing specification for export. If your QA team has a checklist, we would rather answer it before production than after delivery. Electrical configuration is specified per destination — 110 V / 60 Hz for North America, 220 V / 50 Hz for Europe and most other markets — and confirmed at engineering review rather than assumed at order entry.
Verification on Record
Audit reports and inspection records are released to buyers under NDA. We do not publish certificate numbers on a public page, because a number on a website proves nothing that a document package cannot prove better.
The Commercial Facts
Buyers spend weeks discovering terms that should have been on page one. These are ours, stated plainly.
| Item | Terms |
|---|---|
| Minimum order quantity | 1 unit — no wholesale threshold |
| Incoterms | FOB · CIF · CFR · EXW |
| Payment terms | D/P · T/T · L/C · PayPal · Western Union · small-amount payment |
| Production lead time | Approximately one month, peak and off season alike |
| Customisation | From sample · from design · full custom · minor custom · flexible |
| Engineering deliverable | 3D render plus CAD fabrication drawings within 48 hours of a brief |
| Warranty | 36 months on refrigeration and structure |
| Repeat purchase share | 50% – 80% of order volume from existing buyers |
| Supply chain partners | 15 qualified material and component suppliers |
| Principal export market | Europe, with active programmes in North America and the Middle East |
Two of these deserve a sentence rather than a row. A minimum order of one is not a promotional gesture — it is a statement about which business we are in: a private collector commissioning a single cabinet receives the same drawing review and the same inspection sheet as a hotel ordering forty. And a one-month lead time that holds in peak season is only possible because cutting, bending, welding, coating and assembly sit in one building; it is a scheduling fact, not a promise we can make on behalf of suppliers we do not control.
Send Us the Drawings You Have
A sketch, a floor plan, a photograph of the room, or nothing but a capacity figure and a budget. Our engineering team will come back within 48 hours with a 3D direction and a fabrication assessment — or with a short, specific list of what we still need in order to give you one. There is no obligation attached to that answer, and no sales sequence behind it. You will be speaking to the engineer who would build the room.