Insulated bottles, tumblers and travel mugs with a food-grade ceramic interior — no metal taste, no flavour transfer, and an easy-clean surface that resists stains and odour. We OEM/ODM ceramic-lined thermoses for brands and importers who want a premium, healthy, differentiated product, from a 500-piece MOQ. FDA/LFGB and antibacterial tested.
A bare stainless interior can leave a metallic taste and hold onto coffee and tea stains. Our food-grade ceramic coating seals the steel, so drinks taste pure, the surface wipes clean, and your brand can sell a genuinely premium bottle — not another lookalike flask.
No metal taste
The ceramic layer separates the drink from the steel, so water, coffee and juice taste clean — a key selling point for buyers.
Easy to clean, stain-resistant
The smooth, non-porous interior resists coffee/tea stains and odour and rinses clean, with less biofilm build-up.
Food-grade & tested
Coating tested to FDA and LFGB food-contact standards, with antibacterial and food-safety reports available to support your listing.
Premium margin & differentiation
A ceramic interior lets you position above plain stainless flasks — a clear story for retail and Amazon listings.
What we coat
Ceramic-lined products we make
The food-grade ceramic interior can go in almost any of our insulated bodies — bottles, tumblers, travel mugs and flasks.
Ceramic-lined insulated bottles
Double-wall 304 bottles with ceramic interior, 350–750 ml, in your colour.
Ceramic-lined tumblers & travel mugs
Coffee tumblers and travel mugs with ceramic interior and leak-resistant lids.
Inner ceramic-coated thermos
Classic vacuum flasks with ceramic interior — 10 ready models to brand.
Custom colour & finish
Any Pantone exterior with matte, gloss or speckled finishes and your logo.
Inside the inner ceramic spray-coating process at our factory
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Related insulated categories
Start from a ceramic-lined model or add the ceramic interior to another insulated style.
TH-1004 — 380mlInner ceramic coating — no metal tasteTH-1006 — 500mlTH-1009 — 750ml
Ceramic-lined drinkware is priced by quantity tier like our other lines, with the ceramic coating as a per-piece add-on. Ten ceramic models are ready to brand, so most orders need no new tooling.
Order quantity
Pricing tier
Typical buyer
500 – 999 pcs
MOQ / pilot
Brand launch, market test
1,000 – 4,999 pcs
Standard wholesale
Established brand reorder
5,000 pcs – container
Best volume price
Retail / distributor programme
MOQ 500 pcs per design. Samples in 7–10 days; bulk in about 30 days. FDA/LFGB, antibacterial and food-safety reports for the coating are available on request.
Tell us style, quantity, logo and packaging — or ask for our catalogue.
Quote & artwork
We quote within 24 hours and prepare your logo mock-up and colour match.
Sample
Pre-production sample in 7–10 days for your approval.
Production
Bulk run in about 30 days after deposit, with in-line QC.
Shipping
Retail/FBA packing and shipping by sea or air, direct to you or your FC.
Get the terms right
A ceramic-lined bottle is not a ceramic mug — and the difference matters commercially
This is the single most common confusion in this category, and it costs buyers money when it surfaces late. A ceramic mug is a vessel made of fired clay: heavy, breakable, no insulation, cheap to produce at volume. A ceramic-lined bottle is a double-wall vacuum stainless body with a food-grade ceramic coating sprayed onto the interior wall and cured. The structure, the performance and the price are completely different products.
Why anyone bothers: bare stainless is inert and safe, but plenty of drinkers can taste it — that faint metallic note in black coffee, the way yesterday’s tea seems to linger. The ceramic layer sits between the drink and the steel, so what you taste is the drink. The surface is also non-porous and smooth, which means coffee and tea staining rinses away instead of building up, and there is less for biofilm to hold onto. Nothing about insulation changes: the vacuum does the thermal work, the ceramic does the taste work.
For a brand, the commercial argument is simpler than the technical one. Plain stainless flasks are a crowded shelf where the only remaining lever is price. A ceramic interior gives you something specific to say on a listing or a retail card — a reason for a higher price that a customer can actually verify with their first sip. That is the whole point of the line.
Why we are good at this
Inner ceramic coating is where we have an edge — here is the honest version
Spraying a ceramic interior is not difficult to attempt and quite difficult to do consistently. The coating has to go on at an even thickness over a curved interior you cannot easily see into, then cure fully; too thin and it wears through at the base, too thick and it chips at the neck. Getting that right across thousands of pieces is a process question, not an equipment question, and it is one we have spent years on. Ten ceramic-lined models are ready to brand, so most programmes start without any tooling at all.
It also connects to how this factory began. Before we sold finished bottles under our own name, we made the vacuum liners other manufacturers built their flasks around — the inner vessel, the component that decides how well a flask holds temperature. Ceramic lining is applied to exactly that component. When we say we control it, we mean we have been making the part it goes onto for longer than we have been selling finished goods.
What we will not claim: the coating is food-grade and tested to FDA and LFGB standards, with antibacterial and food-safety reports available for your listing, and we will send them before you order rather than after. But it is a coating, and coatings have limits. Advise your end customers to skip abrasive scourers and to avoid running it through a commercial dishwasher every day — hand washing keeps a ceramic interior looking new for years. We would rather your customer knows that up front than discovers it in a review.
FAQ
Ceramic-Coated Bottles FAQ
What is an inner ceramic-coated bottle?▾
It is a double-wall stainless insulated bottle whose inside is lined with a food-grade ceramic coating. The ceramic layer covers the steel so drinks do not pick up a metallic taste and the interior is smooth and easy to clean.
Does the ceramic coating really stop the metal taste?▾
Yes. Because the drink touches ceramic rather than bare steel, water, coffee, tea and juice taste clean, with no metallic note and far less flavour carry-over between drinks.
Is the ceramic coating food-safe?▾
Yes. The coating is tested to FDA and LFGB food-contact standards and has antibacterial and food-safety reports, which we can provide to support your retail or Amazon listing.
Is a ceramic interior easier to clean than plain stainless?▾
Yes. The non-porous ceramic surface resists coffee and tea stains and odour and rinses clean easily, with less biofilm build-up than bare steel.
What is the MOQ for ceramic-lined bottles?▾
500 pieces per design. We have ten ready ceramic models, so most orders use existing moulds with no tooling fee — you just choose colour and branding.
Can you customise the colour, logo and lid?▾
Yes. Any Pantone exterior, matte/gloss/speckled finishes, your logo via laser or print, and a choice of lids and straws — full OEM/ODM.
Is a ceramic-lined tumbler the same as a ceramic mug?▾
No, and they are different products commercially as well as physically. A ceramic mug is fired clay — heavy, breakable, no insulation. A ceramic-lined tumbler is a double-wall vacuum stainless body with a food-grade ceramic coating on the interior wall: the vacuum does the insulating, the ceramic sits between your drink and the steel so there is no metallic note. We make the second and not the first — if you need true ceramic or porcelain, we are not your factory.
Can you add a ceramic interior to any of your insulated models?▾
To most of them. Ten ceramic-lined models are ready to brand with no tooling, and beyond those we can apply the interior to other insulated bodies in the range — bottles, tumblers, travel mugs and classic flasks. Tell us which body you have in mind and we will confirm rather than assume, because the interior geometry decides whether we can coat it evenly.
Does the ceramic coating affect how long drinks stay hot?▾
No. Heat retention comes from the vacuum between the two walls; the ceramic layer is on the inside surface of the inner wall and does not touch the vacuum. A ceramic-lined vacuum bottle holds temperature the same as the equivalent plain-steel model. What changes is taste and cleaning, not thermal performance.
How durable is the coating, and what should we tell customers?▾
Applied correctly it lasts for years of normal use — and getting it even across a curved interior at consistent thickness is exactly what separates a good ceramic line from a poor one. But it is a coating, so advise your customers to avoid abrasive scourers and steel wool, and to hand wash rather than run it through a commercial dishwasher every day. Better that your end customer reads it on the packaging than discovers it in a product review.
