SHIELD WORKS · CUSTOM OUTDOOR COOKING EQUIPMENT

Custom-engineered outdoor cooking products, built to last.

Precision-engineered pizza ovens, BBQ grills, smokers, and fire pits for leading outdoor cooking brands.

From concept to production: Western quality control, built-in IP protection, and dependable time to market.

What we build for outdoor cooking brands.

Shield Works Outdoor Products, a division of Shield Works Precision Manufacturing, develops, manufactures, and assembles custom OEM outdoor ovens, grills, and outdoor cooking products for global brands.

We operate from an ISO-certified, British-owned facility in Zhuhai, China, backed by the C2W Group's 20 years of China manufacturing, 18 of them in the outdoor products sector and over a decade in outdoor cooking.

Who We Are

Engineering high-performance cooking products, not just building them.

Heat retention, airflow, material durability, and finish all have to survive years of weather and high-temperature cycles, so every component is engineered and tested before it scales.

We run R&D, manufacturing, and assembly under one roof, with the compliance experience this category demands and the discretion to keep a new product quiet until you launch it.

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Why Choose Shield Works

Built for brands that take outdoor cooking seriously.

Safeguarding your innovations

IP protection built in

Burner geometry, airflow design, and heat-retention systems are what set premium outdoor cooking products apart. IP-sensitive builds run in fingerprint-access rooms under NDA, suppliers only ever see the components they make,.

Consistent quality, unit after unit

Precision assembly at volume

Semi-automated assembly lines build ovens, grills, and fire pits to a documented standard, with real-time production data tracking efficiency and catching defects as they appear rather than after packing.

Western standards on the factory floor

British management, local expertise

Founded by British directors with decades in Asia, Shield Works pairs Western engineering oversight and plain-English communication with on-the-ground manufacturing capability in Zhuhai.

Dual-layer verification

Quality proven before shipping

Incoming materials, in-line checks, and final pre-shipment inspection run against your agreed criteria. An independent C2W Group quality engineer then verifies the batch and reports directly to you.

C2W Group heritage since 2005

Two decades in the category

Through the C2W Group, the team behind Shield Works has 20 years manufacturing in China, 18 of them in the outdoor products sector and over a decade in outdoor cooking. We know the seasonality, the compliance load, and the retail deadlines this category runs on.

End-to-end under one roof

Concept to container, one partner

Prototyping, tooling, production, assembly, inspection, and consolidated shipping all run in one facility, so your product moves from design file to delivered container without handoffs between vendors.

What we build

The outdoor cooking products we build.

Representative of the product types we manufacture and assemble in Zhuhai. Every programme is built to the client's own design and specification.

  • Kettle charcoal barbecue grill with a domed lid and wheeled base

    Kettle charcoal grills

    Domed-lid charcoal grills with adjustable vents, ash management and porcelain-enamelled or stainless bowls, in fixed and wheeled formats.

  • Wheeled pellet grill with a side hopper, chimney and folding shelf

    Pellet grills

    Auger-fed pellet grills with PID temperature control, hopper capacity sized for long cooks and optional app-based monitoring.

  • Vertical pellet smoker cabinet with a digital controller and castors

    Pellet smokers

    Vertical cabinet smokers with insulated bodies, multi-rack layouts and digital controllers for stable low-temperature cooking.

  • Stainless steel wood-fired pizza oven with a stone hearth and lit fire

    Pizza ovens

    Stone-hearth ovens with insulated shells and rapid heat-up, built in wood-fired, gas and compact portable configurations.

  • Two-burner stainless steel outdoor gas cooker on folding legs

    Gas cookers and burners

    High-output burner assemblies and portable cookers with certified gas trains, flame-failure protection and regulators for your market.

  • Stainless steel modular outdoor kitchen cabinet section with twin doors

    Modular outdoor kitchens

    Stainless cabinet modules, worktops and integrated appliance bays finished to survive coastal and all-weather exposure.

  • Round steel fire pit bowl with a perforated rim on splayed legs

    Fire pits

    Wood-burning and gas fire pits in steel, corten and cast finishes, with safety screens, covers and optional cooking accessories.

  • Set of stainless steel barbecue tools with wooden handles: spatula, tongs, fork, basting brush, cleaning brush and knife

    Barbecue tools and accessories

    Tool sets, pizza peels, thermometers, covers and rotisserie kits, matched to your product range and packaged to your branding.

  • A range of outdoor cooking products together: grill, kitchen cabinet, gas cooker, pizza oven and smoker

    Full outdoor cooking ranges

    Coordinated multi-product ranges developed as one family, so finishes, hardware and packaging stay consistent across the line.

The images above are renderings used to illustrate the product categories we build. They do not represent a specific product developed for a client.

Don’t see your product?

These are the categories we build most often, not a catalogue.

If you are developing the next innovation in outdoor cooking, get in touch. Shield Works is the C2W Group’s own factory, backed by 20 years of China manufacturing and more than 20,000 completed projects for some of the world’s leading brands.

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Tested In-House

Every oven proves itself in our own test kitchen.

The Shield Works DFX R&D zone includes a full kitchen built for testing outdoor cooking and oven products. Prototypes are fired, cooked on, and measured by the engineers who designed them, so performance problems are found at the workbench rather than by your customers.

  • Live cooking trials on prototype and pilot units
  • Heat retention, airflow, and temperature mapping
  • Workshop benches and 3D printing for rapid iteration
  • IP-sensitive projects isolated in fingerprint-access rooms
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Engineers prototyping a product at the Shield Works DFX workshop bench in Zhuhai

Proven work

Brands we build outdoor cooking products for.

Trusted by leading outdoor cooking brands

Gozney stone-bake pizza oven

Gozney

Hampshire, UK

8 years with the C2W Group

Key projects: Portable stone-bake pizza ovens.

A world-recognised outdoor cooking brand. Across an 8-year relationship, the C2W Group scaled production while holding stringent quality standards, supporting Gozney’s rapid growth in the premium home and professional oven market.

Bull BBQ dual-fuel pizza oven

Bull BBQ

California, USA

3 years with the C2W Group

Key projects: Portable pizza ovens.

An outdoor cooking company known for premium grills and ovens. The C2W Group supported Bull BBQ’s move into portable pizza ovens, managing heat-resistant materials, precise assembly, production management, and on-the-ground QC.

La Hacienda pizza oven on a gas grill

La Hacienda

Stroud, UK

9 years with the C2W Group

Key projects: Fire pits, chimeneas, outdoor cooking and garden décor.

A leading outdoor-living supplier. The C2W Group runs full-time quality control across La Hacienda’s China-based manufacturing, ensuring consistent quality, safety, and reliability for UK and European markets. This long-running QC programme anchors the Group’s decade-plus depth in outdoor cooking.

Our Development Process

From concept to completion, in six managed steps.

Every project is different, so the process flexes to yours, whether you are starting from a sketch or refining a product that is already selling.

Step 1

Evaluation & consultation

Share your concept, target market, and production goals. We sign an NDA before specifics are discussed, then assess feasibility and the best path forward.

Step 2

Route to Market Plan (RTMP)

A structured manufacturing roadmap for your product: key stages, estimated costs, and production timelines, so the journey from idea to shipped units is mapped before money is committed.

Step 3

Product definition & prototyping

Engineering files are refined into 2D and 3D prototypes. We test heat-resistant materials, airflow, and functionality through multiple iterations until durability, safety, and efficiency are proven.

Step 4

Design for manufacturing (DFM/DFMA)

The design is optimised for repeatable production: bill of materials finalised, tolerances set, and assembly fixtures engineered, eliminating manufacturing problems on paper rather than on the line.

Step 5

Mass production & assembly

A pilot batch verifies every component against specification before full-scale production begins, with quality control documented at every stage. Multi-supplier sourcing means no single supplier ever sees the full design.

Step 6

Quality control & logistics

Final inspection to your agreed criteria, then packing, consolidation, and shipping coordinated from our own warehouse, so finished goods leave secure custody only when they leave for your market.

Custom Design & Private Label

Three ways to build your outdoor cooking line.

Whether the design is yours, ours, or somewhere in between, the route in changes but the facility, the inspection regime and the IP protection do not.

Custom product design & OEM development

Work with our engineers to develop an oven, grill or fire pit that is yours alone, from concept and material selection through prototyping to production tooling.

Product optimisation

Already have a design? We review your engineering files for manufacturability, cost and durability, then re-tool and build it at volume.

Ready-to-brand private label

Choose from outdoor cooking designs we have already developed and tested, apply your own branding and packaging, and reach market with far less upfront investment.

Designed In House

Concept to finished oven, designed in house.

Vulcan is a Shield Works design. Our team took it from first concept through engineering, tooling and testing, then built the brand and shot the film around it. It is the clearest picture we can give of what the facility handles when a project starts from a blank sheet.

Certifications

Four international certifications. One facility.

Shield Works is independently certified across three management systems: Quality (ISO 9001), Environmental (ISO 14001), and Occupational Health & Safety (ISO 45001). Also audited annually under SEDEX SMETA, an independent ethical-trade audit covering labour, health and safety, environment, and business ethics.

Certification Standard Accredited By
ISO 9001 Quality Management System BSI ANAB
ISO 14001 Environmental Management System BSI ANAB
ISO 45001 Occupational Health & Safety BSI ANAB
SEDEX SMETA 4-Pillar Ethical Audit Independent third-party

Frequently Asked

Outdoor cooking manufacturing, answered.

What outdoor cooking products does Shield Works manufacture?

Pizza ovens, BBQ grills, smokers, fire pits, outdoor kitchen modules, and the accessory ranges that support them. We work across stainless and carbon steel, cast components, ceramics, and high-temperature finishes, with electronics integration for ignition and temperature control where the design needs it.

Do you build to our design, or can you develop the product with us?

Both. Most clients bring their own design, which we refine through DFM review before tooling. If the concept is earlier stage, our in-house R&D team develops it with you, using a dedicated test kitchen for outdoor cooking and oven products. See our product development services.

How do you protect our designs during manufacturing?

By structure. Suppliers receive only the data their component requires, sub-assemblies are integrated internally, and IP-sensitive builds run in fingerprint-access rooms. See the full IP protection model.

What is your minimum order?

We do not run a fixed minimum order quantity, but projects typically start from USD 10,000 in order value, and most custom outdoor cooking engagements run well beyond that. The line is scaled to your order profile, from pilot runs to ongoing volume production.

Can you handle compliance for our market?

Yes. We manage testing and certification against the standards your market requires, including CE, UKCA, and US requirements for gas and solid-fuel appliances, and build the compliance timeline into your production plan from the start.

Can you take over production from our current factory?

Yes. We regularly transition existing outdoor product lines into our facility, including design improvements and re-tooling, with production scheduled around your selling season so supply is not interrupted.

How does pricing work?

Development is scoped per project rather than sold off a price list, because an oven redesign and a ground-up product line are not the same piece of work. Where a project needs development, it runs through a Route to Market Plan with our parent company, the C2W Group, which sets out each stage, what it produces, and what it costs before anything starts.

Fees are usually structured one of three ways: a one-off fee scoped to the work, a monthly retainer for ongoing development, or a margin tied to your order value once you are in production. We review projects at no charge where the brief is clear, and design and development here costs a fraction of a Western design house while we already know what a Chinese factory needs to build it.

How long does production take?

It depends on the complexity of the product, how much of it is custom, and the volume you are ordering, so we give you real dates against your specification rather than a headline lead time. The production plan issued after your PO carries every key date, from tooling through to container loading, and your project manager keeps it current as the run progresses.

Do you charge for samples and prototypes?

Yes. Prototypes are chargeable, and on a development project the cost usually sits inside the development fee rather than arriving as a separate line. Outdoor cooking products go through several prototype rounds, because heat retention, airflow and material behaviour have to be proven physically before anything is tooled.

Do you provide packaging and branding?

Yes. Retail boxes, inserts, labelling, manuals and production-ready artwork are prepared to your brand guidelines, with packaging compliance handled before print. For private-label programmes that extends to full brand application across the product and its packaging. More on packaging and artwork support.

What happens after I submit a brief?

We look at your product and requirements, assess fit, and reply to most enquiries within 24 hours. If it looks like a fit, we review the project in detail and issue an NDA where needed, then set up a call to confirm fit before we come back with a proposal. All work runs under a paid engagement. Submit your project brief.

Inspire with Fire.

The oven is the product. The season is the deadline.

Outdoor cooking is bought in a narrow window and judged on the first cook. Get the heat retention, the finish and the arrival date right and the brand builds itself; miss the season and the year is gone. That is the job we take on.

Start Your Enquiry

Bring your outdoor cooking product to Shield Works.

Send your drawings, your specification, or a description of the oven, grill or fire pit you have in mind. We assess fit and reply to most enquiries within 24 hours.

If it looks like a fit, we review the project in detail and issue an NDA before detailed specifications change hands, then set up a call to confirm fit before we come back with a proposal. All work runs under a paid engagement.

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We review every submission. If it's a fit, we reach out to discuss requirements and propose next steps.