Great question—this is one of the most common questions we get from landscape architects, city planners, and property managers. The honest answer is that our urban benches are a hybrid: local fabrication is the backbone of the process, but a few specialized components are sourced from overseas partners.
We cut, weld, grind, drill, powder-coat, and assemble the main bench structure at our own facility. That includes steel frames, aluminum slats, wood sizing, and any custom laser-cut patterns or stenciling. Final inspection also happens here before anything leaves our shop. So the bench you receive is not a fully imported product with our name stamped on it.
What we do source from overseas are certain components—most often ductile iron legs, decorative cast aluminum end frames, and high-grade stainless steel fasteners. These come from foundries we have audited and worked with for years. The reason is not that we cannot make them locally. It is that domestic casting capacity for these specific parts is limited, and the cost difference is significant. If we forced every part to be made domestically, the price of the bench would rise by roughly 30 to 45 percent, and lead times would become much less predictable.
Even those imported components do not go straight from a shipping container to a job site. They arrive raw, go through incoming quality checks, are cleaned and sometimes re-machined, then get finished and assembled with locally made parts. That extra step matters because it lets us control tolerance, finish, and overall durability.
If your project requires full domestic production, we can quote a locally built configuration. Just tell us your compliance requirements, and we will provide country-of-origin documentation for the major components.
That is the transparent answer. If you have a specific bench model in mind, we can also tell you exactly where each part is made.