Category · Lighting sourcing · India

Lighting.

Brass · glass · ceramic · hand-finished

MOQ 500 · 35-day lead · BSCI / Sedex audited

MOQ

500 units

Lead time

35–45 days

Clusters

Moradabad · Firozabad

Certifications

BSCI · Sedex · ISO 9001

QC standard

AQL 2.5 · LM-79 · ASTM B117

Heritage

400+ years

The category

Brass · glass · ceramic · hand-finished

Decorative and architectural lighting — pendants, sconces, lamps, shades and chandeliers — sourced from India's two lighting capitals: Moradabad (brass) and Firozabad (glass). Two cities, four hundred years of craft, one documented chain.

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Finishes available

  • Polished brass · matte · antique
  • Black powder-coat · gunmetal · bronze
  • Hand-blown clear · smoke · lustred
  • Frosted · cut · lampworked accents

Products developed

  • Pendants & chandeliers
  • Wall sconces
  • Table & floor lamps
  • Architectural ware
  • Outdoor / garden lighting
  • Hand-blown decorative shades

Why India

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  1. / 01

    Moradabad alone produces more brassware than any other city on Earth — the entire trade is built around the lighting cluster. No other geography can deliver brass volume + craft + finishing in the same supply chain.

  2. / 02

    Firozabad's furnaces have been running since the Mughal era; the city produces a remarkable share of the world's hand-blown glass shades and decorative ware.

  3. / 03

    India is one of the few countries where electroplating, hand-spinning, sand-casting and lacquer-finishing can all happen on the same factory floor — for the same SKU.

  4. / 04

    Labour fluency in hand-finishing means CNC + hand-spun parts can be combined economically — a hybrid impossible at European cost and impractical at Chinese MOQs.

India vs the rest of the world

WhatIndiadoesthatotherscan't.

A straight comparison — what we hear from buyers who've sourced from each geography.

China

Pressed, die-cast volume. Limited brass craft, no hand-spinning at retail price points.

Vietnam

Strong on rattan / natural shades. Brass and glass capacity is limited.

Turkey

Beautiful Bosphorus brass — but MOQs and lead times don't compete on volume programs.

India

Hand-spun + CNC, electroplated finishes, photometric-tested. Volume + craft in one quote.

Testing & inspection — Lighting

Every test, every certificate, photographed and archived.

The protocols Asia Sourcing runs on every lighting container — in-house and through ISO-accredited third-party labs.

/ 01

Photometric (LM-79)

Light output, colour temperature (CCT), CRI and beam angle measured in-house.

/ 02

Electrical safety

Earth continuity, hi-pot, insulation resistance, leakage current — CE / UKCA / cULus dossiers prepared.

/ 03

Salt-spray (ASTM B117)

48 / 96 / 240-hour cycles for brass, copper, nickel and antique finishes.

/ 04

Finish & adhesion

Cross-hatch tape test (ASTM D3359), gloss meter, pencil hardness.

/ 05

Drop / vibration packing

ISTA-3A on every pendant and shade; photographs archived per carton.

/ 06

AQL 2.5

Critical 0 · Major 2.5 · Minor 4.0 — every container, in-line and final random inspection.

Clusters that make it

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