The workshop
The workshop.
Three essential steps: we design, we 3D-print, we hand-sand and we paint. That's what sets every charger apart from an anonymous mass-produced object.
Welcome to the workshop.
The Petits Chargeurs workshop is three things happening in almost the same place: we design the chargers, 3D-print them, sand them, paint them, and check each one before it leaves.
No anonymous production line. No batch shipped without a look. Every piece passes through our hands before it reaches yours.
Our production workshop
From design to paint, under one roof.
3D printers, sanding stations, a matte paint booth. The complex shapes of our chargers demand a hand finish — no industrial tool can handle them alone.
The craft, in detail
The hand finish a machine can't replicate.
A glimpse of the hand-finishing sanding of a charger, just before the matte paint. Video coming soon.
Step 1
Designed in-house, prototyped in-house.
Every charger is born in 3D in our studio, then comes out as a prototype printed on site. Three to six iterations before we settle on a shape. On average, we only release a new model once a year — it takes that long to get it right.
Step 2
Industrial sanding, then hand-finishing.
The 3D-printing layers are first smoothed with a sander, then each piece passes through hands that finish what the machine can't: the angles, the curves, the tight corners. Three passes with progressively finer paper — 400, 800, 2000.
It's this touch that sets an industrial object apart from a workshop object. Something no automated line can replicate on shapes as sculpted as ours.
Step 3
Matte paint, then one-by-one inspection.
The paint is sprayed in a ventilated booth — a single matte, thin, even coat. Pieces air-dry, with no accelerated drying, no oven. No charger leaves without passing a real charging test: iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods charging together. Power output is measured. Magnet alignment is checked. Every single piece is visually inspected.
If a piece doesn't pass, it's set aside for rework. We only send out what we're proud of.
The workshop in numbers
The workshop in pictures
We turned down a fully automated line. On shapes like ours, the machine gets you 80% of the way. The rest is done by hand. That's what makes each piece different from a charger churned out on some e-commerce site.— Anne, founder
Questions, press, partnerships
A technical question about 3D printing, sanding, painting or quality control? Write to us, we'll reply.