China Hospitality Lighting Supplier & Manufacturer for Hotels
Updated: October 2026 · Manufacturing in Guzhen, Zhongshan, China · Trading since 2014
The short answer: Staylighting is a China-based hospitality lighting supplier working with hotels, restaurants and contract projects — chandeliers, wall sconces and ceiling lights in alabaster, crystal, brass and glass. Order wholesale from the MOQ printed on each product, or commission a fully custom build. We quote FOB China Port and ship worldwide.
Key facts at a glance
- Founded 2014 in Guzhen, Zhongshan — China’s lighting manufacturing base.
- 5 production lines, 200+ workers, 200+ installed projects, exporting to more than a dozen countries.
- Sample lead time 5–7 days; bulk production 20–45 days; full custom / OEM 45–75 days.
- Prices are quoted FOB China Port and include QC, export packing and inland freight to the port — not international freight, insurance, duty or clearance.
- MOQ is stated on every product page. Small orders are welcome.
What we do, in four lines
- Products we make: hotel and banquet chandeliers, pendants and ceiling lights, wall sconces and picture lights, table and floor lamps, mirror and vanity lights, and crystal chandeliers — supplied by the piece against the MOQ shown, or built as a full room package.
- Materials we work in: alabaster, crystal, brass and glass, with metalwork in brass, bronze, blackened steel or chrome. Where a specification cannot be met in the material you have specified, we say so before quoting rather than substituting quietly.
- Services: OEM and ODM production, fixtures built to your drawing rather than to a stock size, samples in 5–7 days, pre-shipment inspection you can attend or receive as a report, and export-grade packing (including knock-down crating for oversized chandeliers).
- Certification: Certification documentation can be arranged per order and destination market. We do not claim blanket certification across every market — tell us the destination and we will confirm what applies before production starts.
What Does a Hospitality Lighting Supplier Actually Provide?
A hospitality lighting supplier provides three things for a hotel project: the decorative fixtures themselves, the documentation to specify them correctly, and a route to get them built, tested and shipped to your nominated port.
As hospitality lighting suppliers, our range covers the fixtures a whole property needs, not a single product line:
- Large chandeliers for lobbies, ballrooms and banquet halls
- Pendant lights for restaurants, bars and stairwells
- Wall sconces for corridors, mirrored walls and bathrooms
- Ceiling and flush-mount lights for guest rooms and public areas
- Mirror and vanity lights for bathrooms and back-of-house, including a crystal and brass vanity wall light
- Table and floor lamps for guest rooms and lounges — such as a brass table lamp with a crystalline glaze shade
We build in the four materials most specified on hotel work: alabaster, crystal, brass and glass. You can browse crystal chandeliers and wall sconces to see the format, or read our overview of alabaster lighting.
Beyond the fixture itself, we provide the technical layer a project needs: dimensional drawings, finish samples, photometric data and specification sheets your lighting designer can drop into their set.
Can You Customize Sizes, Finishes and Designs?
Yes. Most of what we ship is built to a project drawing rather than pulled from a catalog shelf — the working method of a custom hotel lighting manufacturer rather than a catalog reseller.
What we routinely change to your specification:
- Dimensions — diameter, height, drop length and backplate size
- Finishes — polished brass, antique brass, satin brass, bronze, blackened or painted
- Crystals and glass — crystal grade, cut, color and density; glass tint and texture
- Light source — 2700K, 3000K or 4000K, CRI Ra ≥ 90 and R9 ≥ 50 for hospitality-grade color
- Voltage and control — 120V/277V 60Hz for North America, 220–240V 50Hz for Europe, dimmable drivers as required
- Mounting — ceiling plate, recessed, rail or stem, matched to your ceiling structure
We have worked as a hotel lighting manufacturer since 2014, from a factory in Guzhen, Zhongshan, with 5 production lines and 200+ workers.
That combination is what makes one-off and semi-custom work practical: capacity is held partly in our own plant and partly through long-standing partner factories and specialist contract manufacturers.
The honest boundary: some parameters depend on your project, and we confirm them against your drawing before quoting. A change to crystal grade or an unusual voltage is straightforward. A change that touches the structure of a large chandelier needs an engineering review, and we will tell you so rather than quote blind.
What Is the Minimum Order Quantity?
MOQ is set per design and printed on every product page, so you can see it without emailing us first. Different families carry different minimums depending on material and how the fixture is made.
Why it varies rather than being one flat number:
| Material / type | Why the minimum sits where it does | Typical floor |
|---|---|---|
| Alabaster | Carved and matched by hand, so small runs cost more to set up | Higher |
| Brass | Finishing needs a plating or lacquer run, which sets a batch size | Mid |
| Crystal assemblies | Hand-strung, so the floor sits above a single piece | Mid |
| Standard glass families | Made to a repeatable mold | Lowest — some are MOQ 1 |
Small orders are welcome. If your project is a single restaurant, a boutique guest house or a sample room, you can start with the quantity shown on the product.
For volume pricing — the kind of terms a hotel lighting wholesale account is built around — our tiers begin at 5, 20, 50 and 100 pieces through the Trade Program.
A useful example: our three-tier alabaster bowl sconce with a sculptural brass arm shows its MOQ, its price per piece and its lead time on the page itself.
If you want the mechanics in depth, our guide to MOQ, lead time and FOB terms explains how each one moves with the order.
One thing we cannot do: quote a firm MOQ before we see the design. Tell us the quantity you are working toward and we will tell you which tier it lands in.
How Is Pricing Structured? (FOB China Port)
We quote FOB China Port. The price covers the product, export packing, quality control and inland freight to the Chinese port of loading. It does not cover international freight, insurance, customs clearance, duty or destination port charges.
This is stated plainly because it is the single biggest source of surprise in cross-border lighting orders. A fixture quoted FOB and the same fixture quoted delivered are two different numbers, and we would rather you see which one you are buying.
| Included in our FOB China Port price | Not included |
|---|---|
| Product cost and materials | International freight |
| Export-standard packing (carton, foam, crate) | Marine / cargo insurance |
| In-house and third-party quality control | Import customs clearance |
| Inland freight to the Chinese port of loading | Import duty, VAT and tariffs |
| Export documentation | Destination port charges and final-mile delivery |
You choose the forwarder. Nominate your own agent and we deliver to the port on your instruction, or ask us to arrange shipping and we will quote it separately. Our guide to using your own freight forwarder covers how that works in practice.
For US-bound orders, lighting under HTS 9405 carries Section 301 tariffs on top of standard duty. Budget your landed cost well above the FOB figure and confirm the current rate with your customs broker. Current rates are published by the US International Trade Commission and the US Trade Representative.
For how a full quote is put together — and what else sits inside and outside the number — see what a Staylighting price includes.
Want to see how a real quotation is structured? Ask us for a project quote →
How Long Does Production and Shipping Take?
Samples ship in 5–7 days. A standard bulk order runs 20–45 days from drawing approval. A fully custom or OEM build runs 45–75 days. The dates below are typical, confirmed per order rather than quoted as a blanket figure.
| Stage | Typical duration |
|---|---|
| Sample / prototype | 5–7 days |
| Bulk production (catalog design) | 20–45 days |
| Custom / OEM build | 45–75 days |
| Inland freight to Chinese port | 2–5 days |
| Ocean freight | Depends on route and shipping line |
The clock starts when the drawing and finish are signed off, not when the enquiry lands. That is why the fastest projects are the ones that lock specifications early — the sample stage is where ambiguity gets resolved cheaply, before steel and stone are cut.
We confirm our sample policy: samples are priced above unit rate, and the cost is credited against your order when you follow through at volume within the stated window.
Where we draw the line: we will not promise a delivery date before the drawing is approved. Any date given earlier than that is an estimate, and we would rather label it as one.
How Does Certification Work for Different Markets?
Certification is handled case by case, not issued once for every buyer. Certification documentation can be arranged per order and destination market.
What that means in practice depends on where the goods are going:
- United States — 120V or 277V, 60Hz. Common requirements include UL-style listing, and the 277V option is frequently specified for commercial and corridor circuits.
- Europe and UK — 220–240V, 50Hz, with an EU Declaration of Conformity where the buyer requires it.
- Rest of world — MENA, APAC and other markets each carry their own documentation expectations.
What we will not claim: blanket certification across every market. Tell us the destination country and the voltage on your drawings, and we will tell you what documentation can be arranged for that order and confirm it before production. Our certification arrangements explain the general approach in more detail.
What Specifications Should You Send With a Hotel Lighting Enquiry?
Send the destination country, the voltage, the mounting height, the finish, the light color and the quantity. Those six items resolve most of the questions that otherwise turn into three rounds of email, and they let us quote a number you can actually use.
A specification that comes back clean usually carries these parameters:
| Parameter | What to state | Common hotel value |
|---|---|---|
| Dest. market | Country + state/region | Determines certification route |
| Voltage / frequency | Single line on the drawing | 120V or 277V 60Hz (US); 220–240V 50Hz (EU) |
| Color temperature | Kelvin, one value per visual zone | 2700K guest rooms, 3000K corridors and dining |
| Color rendering | CRI and R9 | Ra ≥ 90, R9 ≥ 50 |
| Tolerance | Binning | 2 SDCM (MacAdam) |
| Mounting height | Finished floor to fixture center | Confirms drop length and backplate |
| Finish | Named finish, not “gold” | Polished / antique / satin brass |
| Quantity | Units per design | Sets batch and price tier |
On color rendering, the numbers that matter are Ra ≥ 90 and R9 ≥ 50, following the metrics defined by the Illuminating Engineering Society. Below those, warm tones read flat and skin tones go grey.
On binning, two fixtures both labeled 3000K can still read differently if they come from separate LED lots. Specify 2 SDCM (MacAdam) per ANSI C78.377, and order each visual zone in one production run. If you would rather hand us a set of drawings and let us fill the specification in, that is the normal way we work.
What Are the Typical Projects You Supply?
We supply hotels, resorts, restaurants, bars and contract projects — large chandeliers for public spaces, plus wall sconces and ceiling lights for the routes guests actually walk.
The work we take on most often:
- Hotel lobbies and reception — statement chandeliers and feature pendants
- Banquet halls and ballrooms — large-scale chandeliers with scene control
- Restaurants and bars — dining pendants and bar-height fixtures
- Corridors and lift lobbies — wall sconces such as our alabaster cylinder corridor sconce, matched bin-to-bin across one run
- Guest rooms — bedside sconces such as our oval alabaster bedside sconce, ceiling lights and table lamps
- Bathrooms and vanities — mirror and vanity lights
Since 2014 we have completed 200+ installed projects and export to more than a dozen countries, working for hotel procurement teams, interior design studios, main contractors and brand importers.
An illustrative scenario, closer to a real brief than a sales example: a 180-key property needs roughly 180 bedside sconces, 180 bedside tables or lamps, several hundred corridor sconces across guest floors, plus one ballroom chandelier and a set of lobby features.
Because the corridor sconces must match across floors, they are ordered in one production run and delivered in one shipment.
Higher-count categories like these are where the minimum order is a non-issue — and where lead time and finish consistency become the variables that actually decide the outcome.
How Do You Choose a Hospitality Lighting Supplier?
Check six things: whether they manufacture or only trade, what their real minimum order is, how certification is handled for your market, whether they will build to your drawing, how they quote, and whether they can supply the full property rather than one category.
Use it as a checklist before you commit:
- Manufacturer or trader? A supplier who only resells cannot answer engineering questions or take responsibility for a structural change. Ask what happens when your drawing needs modifying.
- What is the real minimum? A single flat MOQ number across every product usually means it is not a real constraint — it is a marketing line. Per-design minimums, published on the product, are the honest version.
- How is certification handled? The answer should be “per order and per destination market,” with documentation confirmed before production. Be wary of a supplier who claims blanket approval everywhere.
- Will they build to your drawing? Ask to see a dimensional drawing and a finish sample before you commit to volume. If the answer is “the catalog version is close enough,” that is a different kind of supplier.
- How do they quote? A transparent Incoterm — FOB, for example — with packing and QC itemized lets you compare suppliers properly. A single “delivered” number does not.
- Can they cover the whole property? Chandeliers for the lobby, sconces for the corridors, lamps for the rooms. Sourcing each category from a different factory multiplies your coordination work and your finish-matching risk.
Our own answers to all six are on this page. Compare them against whichever supplier you are evaluating — including us.
How Do We Start Working Together?
Send your requirement or drawings. We reply with a quotation. You approve a sample. We move to production and ship to your nominated port. That is the whole path, and most enquiries get a first response within one business day.
The sequence, step by step:
- Send the brief — drawings, reference images, quantities, voltage, finish and destination country. A photograph with a tape measure beats a written description.
- We quote — unit price, MOQ, lead time and FOB China Port terms, against your specification.
- Sample — we produce and ship a physical sample in 5–7 days for you to approve in hand.
- Confirm and produce — drawing and finish signed off; production runs 20–45 days, or 45–75 days for custom / OEM.
- Quality control and shipping — inspected, export-packed and delivered to your nominated port.
If your company buys across multiple projects, the Trade Program adds tiered pricing, project coordination and a single point of contact. General questions are answered on our FAQ.
Briefing a factory for the first time? Our guide on how to brief your factory walks through what to include.
Ready to price a project? Send us your drawings and quantities → — or message us on WhatsApp at +86 159 2039 0000 and tell us the space, the finishes and the destination market.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I order hospitality lighting in small quantities, or is there a high minimum?
Small orders are welcome. Each product page states its own MOQ, and some standard glass families are MOQ 1. Alabaster, brass and crystal families usually carry higher minimums because they need a hand-finishing run. Volume pricing tiers begin at 5, 20, 50 and 100 pieces.
What do you need from me to quote a custom chandelier or sconce?
Drawings or reference images, the quantity, the finish, the voltage and the destination country. A dimensional drawing and a ceiling-height note are the most useful items; a photograph next to a tape measure works if you have no drawing. Most enquiries get a first response within one business day.
Why is your price quoted FOB and not delivered?
Because FOB China Port keeps the quote transparent and lets you control freight. It includes the product, export packing, quality control and inland freight to the Chinese port. It excludes international freight, insurance, customs clearance, duty and port charges. You may nominate your own forwarder, or we can arrange shipping and quote it separately.
Can the fixtures be made for 120V, 277V or European voltage?
Yes. We build for 120V and 277V at 60Hz for North America, and 220–240V at 50Hz for Europe and the UK, with dimmable drivers where required. Voltage is confirmed from your drawings before production. Certification documentation can be arranged per order and destination market.
How long does an order take from enquiry to delivery?
A sample ships in 5–7 days. Standard bulk production runs 20–45 days from drawing approval; custom or OEM builds run 45–75 days. Ocean transit depends on the route and shipping line. Timelines are confirmed per order, and the clock starts when the drawing and finish are signed off.
About the Author
Daniel Ding — Technical Sales Manager at Staylighting, handling OEM and project enquiries, custom lighting specifications, certification documentation and export terms.
Written for hotel procurement teams, interior designers and contractors sourcing decorative lighting from China. Questions on a specific project are answered directly — send your drawings.