Tait Factory Tours

Our manufacturing heart

With manufacturing in our DNA, our factory is the heart of everything we do. Our taskforce of machinery has grown alongside our business over the last 30+ years and has helped shape our offering and maintain an exceptional standard. Housing all our processes under the one roof is a big part of how we do it.

As a hardworking productive hub, the factory is quite different from our showrooms in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. But the factory is integral to who we are and what we do. In many ways, we’re as fond of our machines as we are the finished products!

That’s why we’re opening our doors for industry tours to our Thomastown factory in 2025. We want to share the very core of our passion and purpose with the people who are as fascinated by process as we are: designers and architects.

What's it like?

Members of Foolscap Studio’s Melbourne, Sydney and Perth teams recently dropped in for a visit. ‘We were amazed by the technology, equipment, process and materials,’ says Foolscap’s Founder and Principal, Adèle Winteridge. Favourite stops on the tour included, ‘The tube-bending machine from Japan, the robot welding machine, the box-maker, beautiful hand binding on the Volley Chair, in-house upholstery and powder coating in action’.

Embedded in the manufacturing processes, our passion and capabilities in Sustainability and Customisation are also more visible in the factory.

‘We love going to the source to understand how each item is made, and the design and manufacture processes behind the scenes,’ Adele shares. When seen in action, ‘The approach to sustainability across every process really landed’.

In addition, in-house manufacturing enables a rare level of creative agility, as Adele noticed – ‘There were elements of customisation, bespoke and the handmade which were fantastic to see.’