OEM & contract manufacturing
Kitchen taps built
under your brand
Our factory, our tooling, our engineers — your name on the box.
From our own factory in Taizhou, China, NLB manufactures kitchen taps for well-known brands in the United Kingdom, the United States, the European Union and Australia. Boiling water taps, chilled water systems and conventional kitchen mixers, developed from your drawing or from ours and finished to your specification.
- Taizhou
- Our own factory, China
- In house
- Tooling and assembly
- 3 / 2 yr
- Tap / machine warranty
- 6
- Production finishes
The factory
One roof,
start to finish
A boiling and chilled kitchen tap is not one product. It is a tap body, two under-counter machines and a filter stage that all have to agree with each other. When those are split across three suppliers, the brand owner ends up arbitrating between them. Here they are drawn, tooled, assembled and tested on the same floor.
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Design and engineering
Our own drawing office develops the tap body, the spout geometry and the under-counter machine layout. Bring a sketch, a sample or a full 3D file — we work from any of them.
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Tooling and casting
Dies and moulds are cut for the programme, so a body shape can be yours rather than a catalogue shell with a different handle on it.
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Surface finishing
Six production finishes: Chrome, Brushed Brass, Matt Black, Gunmetal, Brushed Nickel, Copper. Colour and gloss are matched to your reference sample before anything is signed off.
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Assembly
Taps, boiling machines, chilled machines and filter stages are assembled in house, on our own floor, by the same people who set the tooling.
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Testing
Pressure, flow, temperature and electrical safety checks on the line, plus function testing of the finished kitchen tap and machine pairing.
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Branding and packing
Your logo on the product, your artwork on the carton, your manual and your labelling for the destination market.
What we make
Taps, machines,
filter stages
Every tap leaves the line with a child-safe self-returning cartridge,
a precision ceramic cartridge and a Neoperl aerator.
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Boiling machine
188.2 × 188.2 × 260.7 mm
2 × G 3/8" outlets, top-mounted
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Chilled machine
440 × 188 × 306.2 mm
R600a refrigerant, side service ports
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Anti-scale filter
105 × Ø66.5 × 295.4 mm
230 mm bowl clearance to change
- Boiling delivery 98°C
- Mains inlet 1.5–5 bar
- Boiling element 1500 W (2.4 L)
- Chiller draw 120–170 W
- R600a refrigerant
- Filter service 3–6 months or 2000 L
- Tap warranty 3 years
- Machine warranty 2 years
How a programme runs
Enquiry, drawings, sampling, production
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Enquiry
You tell us the product, the market it sells into and what you have today — a sketch on paper is a perfectly good start. We come back with what is feasible in our factory and what is not.
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Drawings
We produce or review the 2D and 3D drawings, agree materials, finish, cartridge and aerator specification, and confirm which approvals your market needs on which part.
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Sampling
Tooling where the programme needs it, then a pre-production sample for you to hold, install and test in a real kitchen before anything is committed.
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Production
Assembly, in-line testing and packing under your brand. Quantities, scheduling and every commercial term are confirmed in writing per model and per order.
Your drawings stay yours. A body shape or a handle developed for your programme is not offered to anyone else, and it is not quietly added to our own kitchen range. That is written into the programme rather than promised on a call.
Approvals
Approvals attach to a model, never to a whole range. The WRAS, CE / CB and WaterMark position is being confirmed in writing model by model, including which company each certificate is registered to, and we publish a model only once that is on paper. Tell us the market and we email you the current status. For Australia the brass specification differs and is quoted separately. Certification scope.
OEM enquiry
Tell us what you want built
Send the outline and we will tell you what is feasible in our own factory and what is not. Quantities, scheduling and commercial terms are confirmed in writing per model and per order.