Mid-Autumn Festival 2026 Greetings from TOB NEW ENERGY

On September 25, 2026, the fullest moon of the year will rise over China, and families across the country will gather for the Mid-Autumn Festival — the most heartfelt celebration of reunion, gratitude, and shared harvest in the Chinese calendar. On behalf of every engineer, technician, and colleague at TOB NEW ENERGY, we send our warmest Mid-Autumn Festival 2026 greetings to the customers, distributors, universities, and research institutes we are privileged to serve around the world. Because the public holiday runs from Friday, September 25 to Sunday, September 27, we want our international partners to know exactly how our teams in Xiamen will operate, how to reach us, and what we have built together over the past year.

A Mid-Autumn Festival 2026 Message to Our Global Customers and Partners

A festival greeting means very little without the people it is meant for. TOB NEW ENERGY has grown from a small battery equipment workshop into a full-range supplier of battery machines because our partners kept raising the bar year after year. This Mid-Autumn Festival 2026, we would rather say thank you in specifics than in slogans.

To Our Customers

Whether you are commissioning a single coin cell line in a university laboratory or scaling a pouch cell plant toward gigawatt-hour output, you have trusted our teams with timelines that could not slip. You have invited our engineers into your process discussions, shared yield data, and pushed us toward machine designs that hold tolerance run after run. That partnership is the reason our company overview reads less like a product catalogue and more like a 24-year engineering record.

To Our Distributors and Engineering Partners

Our distributors and engineering partners carry TOB equipment into markets we could not reach alone. Together we have commissioned production lines in Europe, North America, India, Korea, Southeast Asia, and South America — projects where local insight and our manufacturing depth had to work as one system. More than 200 completed projects are in service around the world today, and a good share of them began with a conversation you started.

To Universities and Research Institutes

To the universities and research institutes who use our laboratory equipment every day: your experiments set the specification for the next generation of machines. Research groups working on solid-state electrolytes, sodium-ion chemistries, and lithium-sulfur systems have shown us exactly where commercial equipment still falls short. We consider that feedback a privilege rather than an inconvenience, and it shapes what we build next.

What the Mid-Autumn Festival Means to Our Partners in China

Many of our overseas partners ask, quite reasonably, what the Mid-Autumn Festival actually is — and why an entire country slows down for it. Understanding the festival helps explain how business communication works in China during late September and early October.

A Festival of the Full Moon and Family Reunion

The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, when the moon is at its brightest and roundest. In Chinese culture the full moon has always stood for completeness and togetherness, so the festival is built around going home: families travel long distances to share one meal under the same sky. It is, in that sense, closer in spirit to a harvest Thanksgiving than to a simple public holiday.

Mooncakes, Gifts, and the Business Etiquette Behind Them

No Mid-Autumn table is complete without mooncakes — dense round pastries filled with lotus seed paste, red bean, or salted egg yolk, traditionally sliced and shared so that everyone eats from the same cake. Businesses present mooncakes to clients, suppliers, and employees as a gesture of appreciation rather than a commercial gift, and the exchange is deliberately personal instead of promotional. If a Chinese partner sends you a mooncake box in September, the correct response is a sincere thank-you; if you send one in return, keep it modest. The festival is also a genuine relationship-building window — a short greeting in late September lands far better than a follow-up email in the middle of the holiday itself.

Mid-Autumn Festival 2026 Dates and Holiday Schedule in China

For partners planning production and logistics around the festival, the dates matter more than the sentiment.

The Official Holiday Dates for 2026

In 2026 the Mid-Autumn Festival falls on Friday, September 25. The Chinese mainland public holiday runs from September 25 to September 27, three consecutive days, with a make-up working day observed earlier in the month. Because National Day follows on October 1, many Chinese companies and government offices operate on a reduced schedule from the last week of September through the first week of October. When you fix a project milestone in that window, check it against the official China public holiday calendar before committing a delivery date.

What the Holiday Means for International Buyers

Practically, the holiday affects the four things our customers ask about most: quotation turnaround, engineering replies, factory production scheduling, and outbound shipping. Expect quotation and technical responses to be slower on September 25–27 and to recover to normal on September 28. Assembly and testing at TOB's manufacturing base continue on a planned shift arrangement, so equipment already in build is not disrupted by the holiday itself; the steps most likely to slip by one to three days are third-party services such as inspection, customs brokerage, and freight consolidation in Xiamen and Shenzhen. If a shipment of yours must leave before October 1, place the documentation request with us before September 24.

How TOB NEW ENERGY Supports You Through the Holiday

Our holiday arrangement is designed so that no partner is left waiting without knowing what is happening.

Sales and Technical Support Availability

Our sales team and technical support engineers remain reachable by email and WhatsApp throughout the holiday, including September 25–27. Enquiries received during the break are logged on arrival and answered in priority order when normal operations resume on September 28. For urgent line-down issues — a coating head fault, a winding tension problem, a sealing parameter out of specification — call the technical support line directly, because duty engineers are on rotation. The fastest route for any request is the contact form on this site, which routes messages to the responsible engineer rather than to a general inbox.

Production, Order Handling, and Delivery Planning

Equipment already in production keeps its committed schedule. New orders placed between September 25 and September 27 are processed, but contracts, invoices, and shipping documents may be issued with a short delay. Customers finalising a battery production line solution should send their final utility, layout, and material specifications before September 24 so that engineering review can start without interruption. For teams still at the evaluation stage, our brochure and sample request form stays available at any time during the holiday.

A Year of Progress We Are Grateful to Share

A greeting is also a good moment to report honestly on the year. Here is what our customers and partners made possible.

24 Years of Battery Manufacturing Equipment Expertise

TOB NEW ENERGY was established in 2012, but our founding team entered the battery equipment industry as early as 2002 — 24 years of accumulated process knowledge. That history now covers lithium-ion, solid-state, and sodium-ion battery technologies, with equipment spanning material preparation, electrode coating and slitting, cell assembly, formation and grading, and testing. More than 8,000 factories, universities, and research institutions worldwide have worked with our machines, and cumulative R&D investment has passed USD 20 million, including an in-house R&D and testing centre of more than 3,000 square metres.

From Laboratory Research to Pilot and Mass Production

The most common request we heard this year was for continuity: customers who validate a chemistry on a coin cell line and then need the same process to hold at pilot scale and again in mass production. Meeting that demand shaped our 2026 roadmap. We widened our solid-state battery equipment range to cover dry-electrode film preparation, stacking, and high-pressure formation, and continued building out sodium-ion battery solutions for laboratories moving from material screening toward pilot cells. The goal in both cases is identical: a process window that survives the jump from a 300-square-metre laboratory to a full production hall.

A 20 MWh Pouch Cell Project in Europe

The clearest example of that continuity this year was a European project delivered between 2024 and 2025 — an automated, high-flexibility Li-ion and Na-ion pouch cell mass production base with 20 MWh of annual capacity, the first of its kind in Europe. The line had to switch between chemistries without a rebuild, which forced changes in winding tension control, stacking accuracy, and formation profiles that we now apply as standard. The full 20 MWh production line case study covers the engineering decisions behind it.

Growing Together — Research, Patents, and Global Partnerships

Equipment alone does not move an industry forward. The knowledge behind it does.

Joint Innovation with Universities and Research Institutes

TOB NEW ENERGY maintains a long-term research partnership with Professor He's team at Central South University, covering solid-state and sodium-ion battery technologies, and operates a joint university–enterprise laboratory with the university. The collaboration follows a simple division of labour: fundamental materials research and electrochemical evaluation on the university side, equipment engineering and process scale-up on ours. The university has also designated TOB an industry–academia–research base, hosting graduate students for internships and hands-on training. Our engineering work is protected by a portfolio of patented designs, supported by ISO quality management and CE certification for equipment exported to European markets.

The TOB Global Distributor Program

In 2026 we formalised our Global Distributor Program for partners who want to represent TOB equipment in their own markets. The programme provides technical training, demonstration support, spare-parts access, and joint project engineering, and it is open to companies already active in battery manufacturing, laboratory equipment, or energy storage. For distributors the appeal is straightforward: a complete product range from coin cell laboratory equipment to full production lines, backed by a manufacturer that will send engineers on site. If your organisation is interested, the application route starts with a conversation — and the holiday is not a bad time to begin it.

Mid-Autumn Festival Greetings: Frequently Asked Questions

These are the questions international partners asked us most often in the weeks before the festival.

When is the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2026?

The Mid-Autumn Festival 2026 falls on Friday, September 25, 2026, corresponding to the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. In mainland China the public holiday runs from September 25 to September 27. Because National Day begins on October 1, the two holidays sit close together this year, and many Chinese companies schedule reduced operations across the intervening week.

Do Chinese battery equipment factories close during the festival?

Most manufacturers observe the statutory holiday but do not shut down completely. At TOB NEW ENERGY, sales and technical support remain reachable by email, phone, and WhatsApp throughout September 25–27, while assembly and testing follow a pre-planned shift arrangement. What partners should plan for is delay in external services rather than in production: customs clearance, third-party inspection, and freight booking around Xiamen and Shenzhen are the steps most likely to slip by one to three days.

How can international partners reach TOB NEW ENERGY during the holiday?

Email and WhatsApp are monitored every day of the holiday period. Urgent production issues should be raised by phone to the technical support line, so that a duty engineer responds directly instead of through a shared inbox. Partnership and distribution enquiries can be sent at any time and will be answered once normal operations resume on September 28, with priority given to the messages received earliest.

Thank You — and Warm Wishes from All of Us at TOB NEW ENERGY

Behind every machine we ship is a chain of people who decided to trust one another: a process engineer who shared a failing test result, a distributor who flew out to a customer site, a professor who let our engineers sit in on a laboratory meeting. The Mid-Autumn Festival is about returning to the people who matter, and that is exactly how we think of our partners.

From all of us in Xiamen, we wish you and your families a joyful Mid-Autumn Festival, a bright full moon, and a strong fourth quarter. If you would like to discuss a project, a pilot line, or a distribution partnership, contact us — we will be glad to pick up the conversation as soon as the mooncakes are finished.