Crop to Cup Manufacturing

Refining • Blending • Packing

As a leader and innovator in the world of luxury tea, Metropolitan Tea offers a food-safe crop to cup experience for our clients and customers. Through decades in the tea business, we’ve developed strong ties with growers and their families all over the world. This allows us to buy teas during peak seasonal crop times, on tea estates known for quality, social equity, and environmental sustainability.

As a tea manufacturer, after we buy materials, we do significant additional raw material refining to ensure that our quality is always in the top 5% of global luxury standards. All products are held in vacuum to provide consistent peak flavor profiles and ensure freshness. 

Unlike other tea companies that function as a middle-man style partner, we blend and pack our own loose tea and pyramid teabags. Watch our videos to see how our tea products are produced in our FDA-registered facility in Toronto, Canada.

Tea Refining, Quality Enhancement 

Luxury's extra step — Learn how we refine raw materials to ensure the safety and quality of all our products.

Plant-Based Compostable Pyramid Tea Bags

Our high speed tea bagging machine can process 200 tea bags per minute; don't blink!

Tea Blending and Packing

Small batch blended and vacuum sealed for freshness.

Private Label

Imagine the possibilities for your own custom product!

Blending Lab

With over 1000 different ingredients, discover how our flavor masters develop unique and delicious teas and tisanes. 

Sustainable Factory Practices

Since 2004, we’ve been improving factory efficiencies. With constant upgrades, Metropolitan Tea has reduced energy use by 65%.

Solar Rooftop Array

In 2012, we installed 2,607 solar array panels atop our tea manufacturing facility. This eco-friendly achievement meant that Metropolitan Tea became one of the world’s first tea manufacturers to achieve carbon neutral status.

Carbon Sequestering Forest

2010: Concerned with global carbon rise, Metropolitan bought a 200 acre abandoned farm and rehabilitated the land into a new carbon sink.