Stainless Sink Faucets Built for the Pairing

The body material is different. A stainless sink faucet has a 304 stainless steel body — the corrosion resistance is intrinsic to the material. A brushed nickel faucet has a brass body with a brushed nickel plating stack — the corrosion resistance depends on the plating quality.

For buyers in commercial kitchen, food service, or laboratory channels, the distinction matters: health codes and procurement specs often require genuine stainless, not plated brass.

For buyers in residential or hospitality distribution where the requirement is a brushed aesthetic rather than a material specification, brushed nickel delivers the look at a lower landed cost. Know which requirement your buyers are actually specifying before you choose.

The installation process is the same — deck mount, standard compression fittings, standard supply line connections.

One practical note: stainless steel is harder than brass, so over-tightening the mounting nut can crack the deck plate on thin-gauge stainless bodies. Our deck plates are formed from adequate-gauge stock to handle standard installation torque.

It's worth including a torque specification in your installation documentation if your buyers are in commercial channels where multiple installers are working from the same spec sheet. We can provide installation documentation with your shipment.

MOQ is 200 units for standard catalog items. You can mix single-hole and three-hole configurations within the same order to reach the MOQ — for example, 120 single-hole and 80 three-hole.

For OEM orders with custom tooling, MOQ is 200 units per SKU.

If you're building a starter SKU mix for a new market, tell us your target application and volume expectations — we'll recommend the configuration split based on what moves for our existing buyers in similar markets.

Request the XRF material test report. We provide this as standard documentation with every production batch — it confirms the alloy composition of the body material.

A quick field check: 304 stainless is non-magnetic or very weakly magnetic (slight magnetism at weld points is normal). A faucet body that sticks firmly to a magnet is not 304 stainless.

For formal procurement qualification, the XRF report is the document your QC team needs.

We schedule production in 4-week windows and don't push committed orders back for larger buyers — if your order is in the queue, it ships in the window we committed to.

304 stainless handles standard outdoor environments — rain, humidity, temperature cycling — without corrosion issues.

For coastal outdoor installations where the faucet is exposed to salt air or salt water spray, 316 stainless is the better specification. We supply 316 on OEM orders.

For fully outdoor installations, also verify that the valve cartridge and internal components are rated for the temperature range in your climate — our standard ceramic disc cartridge handles down to -10°C, which covers most temperate and subtropical outdoor applications.