From the floor.
邊 · 紙Our blogs are where the press floor speaks — production and process, the people we work with, the projects we ship, sustainability with receipts, and the news from the four floors. Posted when there is something worth saying.
Production & process.
工 · 序Notes from the press floor — the materials we trust, the corners we won't cut, and the techniques we keep coming back to.
- i.Custom luxury rigid box manufacturing — what it actually means.May 2026
- ii.Magnesium etched, how a foil plate is born.In preparation
- iii.A morning at the Yangshao kiln.In preparation
- iv.The pink we couldn't match the first time.In preparation
People of the house.
人 · 才Founders, masters, finishers — the names behind the work, and the ones who train the next press operator down the line.
- i.Master Wei, on his thirty-eighth year at the press.In preparation
- ii.Sonia Sun on the small room in 1992.In preparation
- iii.What a senior finisher actually does.In preparation
Customer success.
客 · 案Projects told from the brief inward — the aesthetic decisions, the constraints, the route the box took before it shipped.
- i.The Souverain project: from sketch to ship.In preparation
- ii.Glee's Grove — twelve weeks, four iterations.In preparation
- iii.When Lancôme called for a holiday box.In preparation
Sustainability & receipts.
可 · 持FSC papers, recovered foil, the carbon math — published, audited, and explained without offsets.
- i.The 2025 receipts, audited.In preparation
- ii.Why we don't buy carbon offsets.In preparation
- iii.Foil recovery: the math behind 34%.In preparation
Company news.
近 · 訊What's new at Huamei — new floors, new partnerships, awards, hires, openings.
- i.A new floor opens in Guizhou.In preparation
- ii.Recognised at the Pentawards 2025.In preparation
- iii.Why we changed our name in 1998.In preparation
Tell us the brief. We’ll tell you the most honest route to it — and the compromises the brief asks for.
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