Home & decor glass · Candle jars and vessels
Diameter sets the melt pool. The melt pool sets the wick. Everything else is finish.
If you pour candles, run a private-label house or sell candle supplies, you buy these vessels by the pallet, and we make them ourselves in Shandong. Your six bodies run 2 oz to 8 oz (59 to 237 ml) in amber, clear, frosted and electroplated glass, with metal or bamboo lids. Your quotation carries the inside diameter and the depth, because your wick gets sized to those two figures.
Six running-mould vessels across a 2, 4 and 8 oz ladder. The finish is what your customer buys; the diameter is what your chandler works to. We quote wholesale per finish and per quantity, so your mixed pallet prices as readily as a container.
That finish does not run at that size. Your quotation can still cover it, because coating and plating both run on the clear bodies at pallet quantity.
A candle jar is the only container we make that your customer deliberately heats for hours at a time. Three things reach you in writing before a deposit.
What is at stake
A candle burns properly when the melt pool reaches the wall. Too narrow a wick in too wide a jar and it tunnels, leaving a ring of unburned wax and a customer of yours who feels short-changed. Too much wick and it soots the glass. The jar's inside diameter is the number your wick is sized to, and it is fixed before your chandler ever pours.
What we supply
Inside diameter and depth go on your quotation for every body, so your chandler sizes the wick against real figures instead of a photograph. Samples go out empty so your test pour settles the wick before you commit a season.
What has to match
Your poured candle heats the jar from the inside for hours, and a jar chosen only on looks can craze at the base or fail late in a burn. Your wax, your wick and your burn time all change the load, and they change it differently for a 2 oz travel size than for an 8 oz three-wick.
What we supply
Wax, wick and intended burn time belong in your first message, because the answer differs by body and the honest one sometimes rules a vessel out. We anneal every jar on a controlled lehr curve and strain-check every run, and the polariscope results come to you on request.
What is at stake
A metal lid protects your candle in transit and keeps dust off a shelf. A bamboo lid does the same and reads warmer, and neither is a scent seal. Sell a range on the promise that the lid holds fragrance in, and it disappoints after a month on a shop shelf.
What we supply
Metal and bamboo lids both run against these bodies, and we price them with your glass. Where the range needs a real barrier for shipping or long storage, a shrink or a boxed pack does that job and your quotation says so plainly.
Two lid families run across these vessels, and we price both on the same line as your glass.
Your quotation states the lid, the finish on it and the transit pack, so the vessel that leaves here is the vessel that reaches your shelf.
Bulk terms from the plant that melts the glass. No tooling on a running vessel, 15–20 days from confirmation, empty samples for a test pour, and a container count printed beside your price.
Pallet or container
A running mould carries no tooling minimum, so your first collection can be a single pallet across several finishes, on identical terms for private-label chandlers and gift houses. A custom mould in extra-flint starts at 12,000 pieces.
15–20 days
From confirmation on running moulds, glass and lids together. Coated and plated finishes run in our own plant, so they add no second lead time to yours. A custom mould adds 30–45 days from drawing approval.
On request
Jars go out empty with the lid, so your chandler can pour a test candle and burn it right down before you commit a season. In this category that burn is the only test that counts.
EXW · FOB
Warehousing and consolidation stay in-house, and we quote transit to your port. Your candle jars travel with diffuser bottles in one container, which is how most home fragrance ranges ship.
≈20,000–60,000 per 40HC
By size and export pack: roughly 20,000 of your 8 oz jars, up to about 60,000 at 2 oz. Your exact 20GP and 40HC counts arrive with your quotation.
Your collection turns over by season, and that turnover happens in decoration instead of in tooling. Our Shandong plant frosts, sprays, screen prints, hot stamps, electroplates and labels in-house, so a new colourway costs you no steel and no second lead time.
We quote decoration per design, beside the glass. Decoration and labelling in detail →
A drawing, a rival's jar or a sketch starts the check. Running vessels come first and win here, because candle collections change on finish instead of on shape. When a vessel of your own is the point, our mould shop quotes the path with its numbers attached.
A full-size model of your vessel, so you sign off shape, inside diameter and depth before steel is cut.
Real glass from a sample mould: 5–10 jars for your chandler to pour and burn before anything is committed.
Your production tooling runs on the flint lines in Shandong. Minimum 12,000 pieces in extra-flint, 50,000 in standard flint.
We form your vessels in Shandong, decorate them on the same site and pack them with our own warehouse team, so one company carries the job from furnace to container. Candle brands in 40+ countries have shipped from these lines since 2013.
Controlled lehr curve on every jar, and we check residual strain under polarised light on every run, with polariscope results on request. It matters more here than anywhere, because your candle heats the glass on purpose.
We measure base thickness across the run. The base carries the heat at the end of a burn, and that is where a jar chosen on looks alone gives up on you.
Gauged on every run, because your chandler sized the wick to it. A diameter that drifts between your orders changes how the candle burns without changing how it looks.
ISO 9001, SGS test reports and third-party pre-shipment inspection on request.
Four neighbouring ranges from the same furnaces, quoted together and loaded together.
| Requirement | Range | What it adds |
|---|---|---|
| A reed diffuser to match the candle |  Glass Diffuser Bottles | 35 – 330 ml, collars and transit plugs. |
| A room spray or a fragrance bottle |  Glass Perfume Bottles | 5 – 120 ml, crimped spray collars. |
| A soap dispenser for the same range |  Liquid Soap Bottles | 240 – 960 ml, pumps and dip tubes. |
| A decorative vessel for the same shelf |  Glass Vases | Decorative bodies with sprayed and gilded finishes. |
Your ranges combine in one container and on one set of documents.
Diameters, wicks, lids and OEM minimums, so your chandler can size a wick before a sample ever ships.
2 oz (59 ml) suits your sampler or travel size, 4 oz (118 ml) a single-wick retail candle and 8 oz (237 ml) the standard home size. All three run across every finish, so your collection carries the whole ladder in one look.
To the inside diameter, which is the figure your quotation carries for every body. Too little wick for the width and your candle tunnels, leaving unburned wax on the wall; too much and it soots the glass. Samples go out empty so your chandler can settle it with a test pour.
Not if the vessel suits the load, and that depends on your wax, your wick and how long the candle burns. We anneal every jar on a controlled lehr curve and strain-check every run of yours. Your burn specification belongs in the first message, because the honest answer sometimes rules a vessel out.
Yes, and most of our candle work is exactly that. Your name goes on the glass by screen print, hot foil or applied label, and on the lid by lacquer colour or a burned mark on bamboo. It all runs in our own Shandong plant on the same 15–20 days, and the vessel itself never changes, so your wick sizing holds between seasons.
A factory. Your vessels come off our own lines in Shandong, and MAIDAO INDUSTRY runs two sites with 14 lines between them. Candle-supply resellers buy from plants like ours and hold stock locally, which suits a run of a few hundred; a pallet or more is where buying from the furnace starts to pay you back.
No, and your pack copy should not say they do. Metal and bamboo lids protect your wax in transit and keep dust off a shelf. For a real barrier through long storage, a shrink band or a boxed pack does that job, and we price both with the glass.
There is no tooling minimum on the six running-mould vessels, so your first collection can be a single pallet across several finishes. A custom mould in extra-flint starts at 12,000 pieces.
Yes, and it is how most collections change every season. Spray coating in matte or gloss, frosting and electroplating all run in-house on running vessels, so your new colourway needs no new steel and no second lead time.
Yes, metal or bamboo, quoted with the glass and finished to your colour or brand mark. On a lidded candle your customer sees the lid first, so decide it at the same time as the jar.
Roughly 20,000 of your 8 oz jars and up to about 60,000 at 2 oz per 40HC, depending on the export pack. Your quotation gives carton dimensions and exact 20GP and 40HC counts per size.
A size, a finish or the wax you pour is enough to start. Our home fragrance desk answers you with pricing, inside diameters and loading data inside 24 hours.
Matching vessels, lid pricing and loading data come back within 24 hours.
The running moulds that fit get found before anyone talks about tooling.