SIX MACHINES.
HUNDREDS OF
POSSIBILITIES.
Chhapai Lab is a growing network of compact, technology-driven creative labs that make personalised products locally.
Each Lab brings together six small but powerful custom-built machines, a curated inventory of ready-to-personalise objects, proprietary workflows and the expertise to turn ordinary products into extraordinary ones.
You don't need a factory. You need a Lab.
What is a Chhapai Lab?
A mini manufacturing + personalisation studio, designed to sit close to the customer.
We provide the technology, products, training and ongoing support.
You bring the local presence, creativity and ambition.
Together, we create a business that can make and fulfil personalised products on demand and close to where they are sold.
Compact
small footprint
Local
close to customer
On demand
made to order
Powerful enough to create. Small enough to operate locally. Flexible enough to evolve.
Inside A Chhapai Lab
A dark, warm workshop where ordinary objects become one of a kind.
Matte charcoal surfaces, warm orange under-glow and a workbench built for making. This is the environment your customers walk into.
Six Machines. One Lab.
Built around what customers want to make, not what a single machine can do.
Engrave
Emboss
Texture
Finish
Personalise
The technology is intentionally compact, and as we develop new applications, machines and processes, the Lab evolves with you.
Touchscreen Production Unit
An integrated digital console for print, maintenance and settings, built for one operator.
Single-Pass Personalisation Machine
A compact flat-bed system with adjustable guides for precise, repeatable personalisation.
The Blanks Are Ready
You don't start with an empty workshop.
Chhapai curates a growing library of handpicked blank objects designed specifically for personalisation. Objects arrive ready to be transformed.
We source, test and curate the blanks so you can concentrate on making and selling.
New products keep entering the ecosystem. Your Lab gets access to them as the network grows.
Ready-to-personalise objects
Sell Locally. Fulfil Globally.
Your Lab isn't limited to your local customers.
Every Partner Lab becomes part of the larger Chhapai Lab Network, a distributed manufacturing network where products can be made closer to the customer.
Sell to your local network
Serve businesses, designers, corporates, gifting companies and consumers in your market.
Fulfil online orders
Orders from Chhapai's online ecosystem can be routed to the appropriate Lab for local production.
Create your own products
Develop products specifically for your market.
Serve other Labs
As the network grows, Labs can collaborate and fulfil for each other.
You Don't Have To Figure It Out Alone
Becoming a Partner isn't simply buying equipment. It's joining an ecosystem.
Training
Hands-on training to operate the machines, understand materials, create products and manage production.
Technical Support
Ongoing support for machine operation, troubleshooting and production workflows.
Maintenance
We support the machines throughout their operating life, helping keep your Lab productive and reliable.
Inventory
Access to our curated inventory of tested blanks and personalisation-ready products.
New Innovations
New machines, techniques, materials, products and applications. Partners get access as the ecosystem grows.
Product Knowledge
We continuously develop and test new products so Partners don't have to figure out what works.
Your Local Lab
Every market is different. Your Lab becomes a local creative destination.
Imagine customers walking in with a gift they want engraved, a notebook to personalise, a corporate order that needs names, a wedding requirement, a trophy, a keepsake, an object they want transformed.
Instead of saying:
"We can't do that."
Your Lab can say:
"Let's make it."
A Business Built Around Personalisation
Personalisation changes the economics of an ordinary product.
Personal
the blank becomes yours
Giftable
made to be given
Memorable
kept, not discarded
More valuable
premium, not commodity
The Lab Network
One Lab is useful. A network of Labs is powerful.
As the network grows, Chhapai Labs become a distributed personalisation and micro-manufacturing network, and every new Lab makes the network stronger.
More Labs.
more nodes, more reach
More Capability.
more techniques, more machines
More Products.
more customers served locally
What You Get
Your partnership includes.
The Concept
Built for premium locations.
Airport Kiosk Concept
Advanced technology meets personalisation. Premium customisation for travellers, created in minutes.
Mall Lab Concept
A full micro factory storefront at premium retail hubs. Metal cards, perfumes, UV and 3D printing, all under one glass façade.
Premium Packaging
Every order leaves in luxury. Black gift boxes, branded bags, and stationery that turn a product into an experience.
Who Is This For?
You don't need to be a large manufacturer.
You need to be creative, entrepreneurial and customer-focused.
This Is Not A Franchise.
It's something more flexible.
Chhapai provides the technology, ecosystem, products, knowledge and support.
You build the local business. You decide who you sell to. You develop your local network. You create opportunities.
And Chhapai keeps building the platform behind you.
The Vision
Personalisation shouldn't always happen in a distant factory.
It can happen where the customer is. A network of small, powerful Labs can create a new model of manufacturing:
Local Creation.
Global Capability.
Every Lab becomes a node in the Chhapai ecosystem. Every new innovation becomes available across the network. Every successful product can be replicated across markets.
And every Partner Lab helps us make the impossible a little more ordinary.
Which is exactly why we don't want to make ordinary.