Foshan storage facility opens, replaces Guangzhou facility
Teamotea announced the relocation of its primary Chinese tea storage hub to a purpose-built, climate-controlled facility in Foshan, consolidating operations under stricter environmental controls and a new annual third-party audit programme.
Saint Petersburg — 2026-09-04
Teamotea, the parent company of a 35-brand constellation of Chinese-tea products and services, today announced the opening of a new centralised storage facility in Foshan, Guangdong province, marking the end of operations at the former Guangzhou warehouse. The relocation, effective immediately, consolidates the holding, conditioning and quality-assurance processes for the group’s entire inventory of premium Chinese teas under one purpose-built, climate-controlled roof.
Construction of the 4 200 m² facility was completed in August 2026, and the site became fully operational on September 1, 2026. The facility houses over 3 600 storage bins across three environmentally isolated zones, each maintaining temperature at 20 °C ± 1 °C and relative humidity between 55 % and 62 %. These parameters are continuously monitored by 112 wireless sensors feeding a digital twin dashboard accessible to the central logistics team and, via a restricted API, to the supply-chain pages of consumer-facing brands such as thetea.app and puerh.app.
“The Foshan facility represents a generational upgrade in how we safeguard the material legacy of Chinese tea culture,” said Dmitry Sologubov, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Teamotea. “Every cake of shēng pǔ’ěr (生普洱) and every gram of hand-finished lóngjǐng (龙井) that passes through our constellation now resides in an environment where microbial stability, moisture equilibrium and pest control are engineered to standards typically reserved for pharmaceutical cold chains. This is infrastructure for the long arc of our mission.”
The move from the previous Guangzhou location, which had served as Teamotea’s primary storage node since 2020, was prompted by both capacity constraints and the group’s ambition to align its physical operations with the national standard GB/T 30375-2013 (General specification for tea storage). The Foshan site complies with every clause of that standard, adding a proprietary set of redundant air-handling units, UV-C filtration and a double-envelope vapour barrier that collectively eliminate the risk of cross-odour contamination — a critical factor for unroasted yán chá (岩茶) and vintage shēng pǔ’ěr.
Insurance coverage has been restructured in conjunction with the relocation. The facility is now covered under a comprehensive all-risk warehouse policy underwritten by a consortium of three carriers, with a declared-value limit of USD 8.2 million. Policy compliance is verified quarterly through a third-party audit programme conducted by the forensic division of a Big Four accounting firm, with the first audit scheduled for November 2026. Summary audit reports will be published on the Investor Relations section of teamotea.com beginning in Q1 2027.
Operationally, the Foshan facility is designed to support both bulk conditioning and small-lot fulfilment. A mezzanine-level packing and inspection suite enables same-day dispensation for online orders placed through shop.thetea.app, while the ground-floor vault houses single-origin lots earmarked for long-term ageing, including the 2025 Menghai gǔ fǎ (古法) collection and a library of twenty-one sequential vintages of Buryatia-bordered hóng chá (红茶). Temperature and humidity log data for every vaulted lot is immutably sealed on a private blockchain instance, giving downstream authenticity-verification platforms such as tea.services a tamper‑evident history of the entire custodial period.
The Guangzhou-to-Foshan migration involved the transport of 3 800 individual tea lots over a 72-hour window, utilising a fleet of twenty-six climate‑controlled trucks operating in a convoy pattern monitored by satellite telematics. Not a single lot registered a temperature excursion beyond the ±0.8 °C threshold. Damaged-packaging incidents totalled three, all of which were contained and reconciled within the receiving protocol tracked in real time on the tea.events logistics dashboard.
Looking ahead, Teamotea has optioned an adjacent 1 600 m² plot for a planned Phase‑II expansion that would add a dedicated tea‑school training laboratory and an on‑site cupping theatre for the tea.academy certification programme. A decision on the Phase‑II timeline is expected in Q4 2026, pending the outcome of the first facility audit and a review of autumn‑harvest intake volumes.
“Storage is not passive — it is the final craft step in Chinese tea,” Sologubov added. “In Foshan, we are embedding that craft into industrial-grade assurance. It’s the kind of signal our investors and our community expect from the constellation’s backbone.”
For additional technical data, including floor‑plan schematics and the standard operating procedures that underpin the facility’s HACCP plan, credentialed journalists may download the media kit from the press section of teamotea.com/press. Accredited institutional investors can request a detailed operational whitepaper through the Investor Relations portal.
About Teamotea
Teamotea is the corporate group behind a family of thirty-five Chinese‑tea brands, spanning retail, aged-pu’er marketplaces, education, travel, community, services and events. Headquartered in Saint Petersburg and incorporated in two jurisdictions, the constellation reaches consumers in over sixty countries. The group’s vertically integrated model — from farm‑gate sourcing in Yunnan, Fujian, Guangdong and beyond, to automated fulfilment in Europe and Asia — is governed by a commitments framework that emphasises supply‑chain transparency, environmental accountability and long‑term cultural stewardship. For further information, visit teamotea.com.
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Dmitry Sologubov