12 oz (350 ml), double-wall vacuum 304 stainless. It is the one with a shape that suits gift programmes, the body gives a larger print area. Custom logo from 500 pieces.
Capacity
12 oz (350 ml)
Material
Double-wall 304 stainless steel
Insulation
Double-wall vacuum — keeps hot and cold
Stock colours
White
Custom colour
Not available — the sublimation coating is white by design; your colour comes from the print, not the body
The vacuum layer is what makes this work: with almost nothing left to conduct heat away, hot food stays above serving temperature through a working day, and in the larger sizes you can pour in boiling water and raw rice in the morning and open cooked congee at lunch. The inner wall is 304 stainless throughout — the grade matters because lower grades pick up odours and pass them to whatever goes in next. The polymer coating is applied at an even thickness across the whole body, which is what decides whether sublimation comes out saturated or pale.
Also on the buyer’s checklist here: the body finish, custom decoration, holiday season, gifting.
The detail behind that claim: The coating is applied thick enough to resist the scratching and flaking that generates after-sales complaints. The 304 liner throughout — the grade decides whether it holds odours, and lower grades do. The rim is machine-polished, which matters more on glass than most buyers expect. Thermal performance holds through a working day rather than fading after the first hour, because the vacuum is drawn properly rather than partially. The finish reads as a considered product in the hand, not a commodity one.
The reorder logic, in the buyers’ own framing: complaints are rare enough that the buyer stops budgeting for replacements; the entry quantity is low enough to trial without a warehouse full of stock; we take mixed-size part-container loads and rush orders rather than insisting on clean full-container runs; end-user repurchase is high enough that the retailer keeps the facing. We track this deliberately, because what makes a buyer come back is rarely the thing that made them enquire in the first place.
Also cited on repeat orders: coating, custom decoration, consistency, heat retention, cold retention.
Choosing between them
How SB-1004 compares with the rest of the range
Buyers rarely arrive knowing which model they want — they arrive knowing the brief. This table is the fastest way to check whether SB-1004 is the right answer or whether a sibling fits better. The row highlighted is the one you are looking at. Every model listed runs from 500 pieces per design.
Every model above ships from 500 pieces per design. Mixing several of them in one container is normal — a 20ft container holds roughly 26 m³ of cartons, so a mixed load is planned on carton volume rather than on piece count. Send the full list at enquiry rather than model by model.
Who is buying SB-1004, and what they do with it
A cross-border e-commerce seller orders this one regularly. Worth noting how they buy: ordering in volume. Keeps reordering.
Also on the buyer’s checklist here: custom decoration, high volume, restock cadence, consistent reorder.
The use cases behind the orders: party favours and school-year gifts; staff welfare and corporate packs; loose-leaf tea at a desk; gifting; event giveaways. The spread matters commercially: a model that only suits one of these is a harder listing to justify.
Also on the buyer’s checklist here: holiday season, gifting, custom decoration, event gifts, home use.
A job worth mentioning: A buyer in Italy placed a large single order. We split the run across batches so the first pallets could ship while the rest finished, with individual packing rather than bulk cartons. They have reordered since. We would rather show a job that stretched us than a routine one, because the routine ones tell you nothing about what happens when something goes wrong.
Also in play on that job: high volume, part container, shipment, holiday season, consistency, reorder.
Brand owners & private label
SB-1004 ships white only, and that is by design rather than a limitation — sublimation ink is transparent, so it dyes the coating instead of covering it and needs a white base to read true. What decides your landed cost here is the carton, not the unit price: ask for the container plan before you fix a retail price, because a wide-body jar fills a 20ft on volume long before it hits the weight limit. We quote EXW Yongkang, FOB Ningbo or Shanghai, or DDP door to door, and we will say which of the three costs you least given where you are rather than defaulting to whichever is easiest for us.
Retail chains
SB-1004 packs 50 per carton, so a 12-store drop lands on a clean carton multiple rather than a split case. Budget it as three lines, not one: decoration sits inside the unit price, a matched Pantone is its own spray run from 1,000 pieces, and packaging is separate with its own tooling and proofing round. Brands that budget these as a single number are the ones surprised at quotation: decoration sits in the unit price, a matched Pantone is a separate spray run from 1,000 pieces, and a printed colour box carries its own tooling and one proofing round. We sign an NDA before you share artwork, and a shape you tool for stays reserved to you — the same terms we have run with Hallmark since 2017 and with KRAUS for over ten years.
Promotional distributors
SB-1004 is a single-capacity line, which is the fastest thing we can turn around when a date is already tight. Retail-ready means more than a colour box: UPC or EAN printed and scan-tested before the carton is sealed, carton marking to your own packaging manual, and inner counts that match what your DC expects. A barcode that fails at the till becomes a chargeback, and it is entirely preventable at our end: we print and scan-test every UPC or EAN before the carton is sealed. Ask for the retail packaging spec sheet with your first quote — it lists carton dimensions, inner counts and the UPC placement we scan-test before sealing.
Amazon & e-commerce sellers
SB-1004 ships in a 62 cm × 47 cm × 66 cm carton — send us your FBA plan and we will confirm whether that splits cleanly under the dimension cap before you book. Work backwards from the in-hands date, not forwards from the order date: 7–10 days for a pre-production sample, about 30 days production after approval, then 30–35 days sea freight to Europe or 25–30 to the US west coast. Production is 30 days after deposit and artwork approval, plus 7–10 days for a printed pre-production sample, plus sea freight — roughly 30–35 days to Europe, 25–30 to the US west coast. Late artwork is normal in this business; a date discovered late is not survivable — artwork approval is what starts the 30-day production clock, not the deposit. Tell us the date at enquiry and we will say honestly whether it is achievable.
End users & institutions
On SB-1004 laser engraving is the safe call for daily institutional washing. FNSKU labels, Prop 65 and suffocation warnings applied here, cartons built to FBA dimension limits, and we can split a shipment across fulfilment centres if you send the plan. Doing it at the factory removes a prep-centre handling fee and about a week of transit on every restock. Watch dimensional weight on this category — the carton is light for its size, so FBA usually bills on volume.
Failures we hear about from buyers who switch to us
The complaints below come from buyers who arrived here after a bad run elsewhere. Ask any supplier about them directly — the way they answer tells you more than the answer.
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Coating that will not take sublimation evenly
A thin or uneven polymer layer prints pale and washes out after a few cycles. This one thing decides whether a blank is worth buying.
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A vacuum that fades
A weak draw passes a same-day test and disappoints two months later. We check vacuum integrity on 100 % of bodies as semi-finished parts — before assembly, before coating — because on a finished branded unit the flaw stays invisible until it becomes your customer’s problem.
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Importers & wholesalers
— Workable from 500 pieces per design. At 50 pcs per 62cm×47cm×66cm carton, a 20ft container takes roughly 6,800 pieces of this model alone — worked from the biggest of this model’s carton sizes, and confirmed on the pro forma once the load plan is fixed. Tell us the full model list at enquiry rather than one at a time — the quote changes when several models share a colour run or a carton size.
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Brand owners & private label
— Already used this way. The body has enough uninterrupted white surface for a full-wrap sublimation print without fighting a curve, which is the whole point of a blank.
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E-commerce & Amazon sellers
— Sold this way already. We can apply FNSKU labels, Prop 65 stickers and suffocation warnings at the factory and ship FBA-ready cartons direct to fulfilment centres.
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Not the right pick if…
— you need a finished printed product rather than a blank. We supply the blank with its coating; the printing is yours. If you want us to print as well, that is a different conversation and a different quote — say so at enquiry.
Where SB-1004 is actually made
Eight workshops in Yongkang, Zhejiang, running since 1998 — mould development, vacuum welding, injection moulding, spray painting, laser marking, printing, assembly, inspection and packing, all in one building. For SB-1004 the stage worth watching is the white coating line.
On a sublimation blank the whole product is the coating. The steel body is ordinary double-wall vacuum 304 — the same liner we draw for our flasks — but the white polymer layer on top decides whether your printer gets a clean transfer or a blotchy one. It is sprayed and cured on a dedicated line, and cure temperature is the variable: under-cured coating takes ink unevenly, over-cured goes slightly yellow so every print sits on warm white instead of white. We press-test samples from each batch, because a coating problem is invisible until someone presses it. If you press in-house, ask for pre-production blanks and run them on your own machine at your own settings before bulk starts.
We inspect 8% of every batch rather than a fixed sample per shipment. Buyers are welcome on site — eight workshops in Yongkang, Zhejiang, running since 1998, about three hours by road from Ningbo port and two from Hangzhou airport, which makes a factory visit a realistic side trip rather than a separate journey. Ask to see that bench specifically; it is where the difference shows — we check vacuum integrity on 100% of bodies at the semi-finished stage, before assembly and coating, because a micro-leak is undetectable once the jar is built.
Is SB-1004 the right one for your programme?
Importers & wholesalers — Workable from 500 pieces per design. At 50 pcs per 62cm×47cm×66cm carton, a 20ft container takes roughly 1,500 pieces of this model alone. Tell us the full model list at enquiry rather than one at a time — the quote changes when several models share a colour run or a carton size.
Brand owners & private label — Already used this way. The body has enough uninterrupted surface for a printed or engraved logo without fighting a curve, and buyers regularly take it with a matched Pantone at 1,000 pieces.
E-commerce & Amazon sellers — Sold this way already. We can apply FNSKU labels, Prop 65 stickers and suffocation warnings at the factory and ship FBA-ready cartons direct to fulfilment centres.
Not the right pick if… — you need a finished printed product rather than a blank. We supply the blank with its coating; the printing is yours. If you want us to print as well, that is a different conversation and a different quote — say so at enquiry.
FAQ
Ordering SB-1004 — common questions
Why SB-1004 rather than another model in this range?▾
This one runs 12 oz (350 ml), and it is the one with a shape that suits gift programmes, the body gives a larger print area. End users are gifting programmes. If that does not describe your programme, send us the brief instead of the model number — picking from a catalogue is how buyers end up with the wrong one.
Will sublimation print evenly on SB-1004?▾
That depends entirely on the polymer coating, which is the only thing separating a good blank from a bad one. Ours goes on at even thickness across the whole body and cures fully — too thin and it prints pale then washes out, too thick and it yellows at the rim. Before committing to a run, take two blanks from the batch, press them and put them through ten dishwasher cycles. If the difference shows, do not print the tirage on those blanks.
Which colours can we order SB-1004 in?▾
Stock colours are white — those run from 500 pieces per design. There is no Pantone option on a sublimation blank — the coating has to stay white for the ink to read true, so your colour comes from the artwork. Mixed-size containers are normal here: buyers routinely split a container across capacities to see which sizes move before committing.
How do we brand SB-1004?▾
For a brand colour we spray the body first and print onto the coating — two operations rather than one, so it shows in the price. For a mark that never wears, laser straight into the steel. Which is right depends entirely on whether the product lives on a desk or behind a bar.
What is the MOQ, lead time and carton spec for SB-1004?▾
Minimum is 500 per design. There is no colour-matching tier because the body is always white. Production runs 30 days after deposit and artwork approval, sample in 7–10 days. Packing is 50 pcs per carton at 62cm × 47cm × 66cm. Our plant is about three hours from Ningbo port, so FOB Ningbo is usually the cleanest route; EXW and DDP are both available.
Get a quote on SB-1004
Tell us the quantity, colours and how you want the logo applied — we reply within 24 hours, Monday to Saturday.
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