The last container of the program left our Dayawan facility this week: 1,500 ice-water units built on the F900 platform, bound for a UK home-appliance distributor serving retail chains. The line started as a spec conversation and ended as a fully certified retail SKU — here is how the weeks were spent.
The brief came straight from the case file: a differentiated ice-water line for European retail, food-contact compliance on the water path, and a launch window that left no room for re-work. Volume was set at 1,500 units for the first run, and the program was planned backwards from the shelf date.
How the program ran
It followed the standard OEM route. A requirement talk fixed market, volume and certification scope; concept development translated that into appearance renders and a technical proposal; then a frozen spec sheet became the single reference for sampling, production and inspection — so when the four-week clock started, nothing on the critical path was still moving. Every checkpoint on that route had a named owner on both sides, which is the unglamorous reason the window held.
Configuring the F900 platform
The F900 platform provided the base: ice-cold dispensing at 5–8 °C, an RO + UV dual-purification stage in the water path, and dual-algorithm control holding output steady through back-to-back pours. On top of that, housing and packaging were customized to the distributor’s retail brand — finish, branding and carton layout locked together with the technical spec, so production and shelf presentation moved as one program.
Certification and pre-shipment inspection
CE marking and food-contact documentation were handled inside the four-week window, alongside pre-shipment inspection of the finished units. Nothing in that window was compressed by skipping steps — it was compressed by deciding things early: food-contact compliance was specified at the material level at the start, not tested into the product at the end. The documentation package shipped with the container, so the distributor’s compliance team had every file on record before the goods arrived.
What is in the container
For teams scoping a similar program, the short version of what shipped:
- 1,500 ice-water units on the F900 platform
- Housing and packaging customized to the retail brand
- CE marking and food-contact documentation for the water path
- Pre-shipment inspection records for the full batch
The sample quality and certification support won the shelf slot, and a reorder is already in discussion. Programs of this shape — proven platform, brand-specific housing, tight certification window — are the core of what we do. If one is on your roadmap for next season, the structure is the same: one conversation, one spec sheet, one window.