Furniture

Diverse sourcing options for custom furniture

We take the uncertainty out of doing business in the Asia trade arena. By capitalizing on our long-standing relationships with several furniture manufacturers in various Asian countries, including China, Taiwan and Vietnam, we can deliver on our sourcing promises. Our core purpose is to meet the needs of our customers and help them grow their businesses.

Custom Sourcing Furniture

Our Process

Product Specification Phase:
  • Working with our clients’ designers and engineers, we translate performance criteria and sketches into specifications, compliance requirements and drawings.
  • We send this information to our suppliers for an initial assessment of manufacturability and quoting. Our manufacturers determine if they can produce the design reliably and at the lowest possible cost to meet the performance criteria. Then they provide a quote.
  • If we identify opportunities for design improvement through this process, we discuss and evaluate these with the client for feasibility, cost and timing, and we then update the specifications and drawings before obtaining final quotes.
Sample Phase:
  • After acceptance of a quote, our manufacturers deliver prototype samples for trial, feedback and approval. If any production tooling is needed, it is created once prototypes are accepted.
Quality Control:
  • Our client’s quality control and standards compliance needs are managed by the factory with third-party testing as required. This is done by our manufacturers, as well as by North American test labs (e.g. Intertek).
  • In many cases, our clients will visit our supplier’s facilities to witness first production runs and validate for themselves the quality of the manufacturing, testing and packaging.
  • Where required, all components and completed chairs are tested to meet the Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association’s (BIFMA) standards with full test results provided.

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We can source any chair parts for you. Speak to our experts about your particular needs.

Items custom sourced and fabricated

We can custom source residential, commercial and hospitality furniture including, but not limited to:

  • Solid wood furniture
  • Complete task and office chairs
  • Upholstered furniture:
    • Sofas
    • Armchairs
    • Sleeper sofas
    • Ottomans
  • Hospitality furniture & Accessories:
    • Side Boards
    •  Headboards
    • Wood and metal bed frames
    • Microwave stands
    • Luggage racks and benches
    • LED mirrors, lighting and usb receptacles
  • And more

Notable projects

Winning Partnerships Create Opportunities For Everyone

Our customer had a basic understanding of the Vietnamese furniture industry and was on the lookout for a manufacturer that could accommodate their production volumes. Our customer had been to Vietnam themselves, and was understandably impressed by the high-volume facilities. Despite those first impressions, trial orders placed by our customer lead to long delays in delivery and missed deadlines. We knew the larger players were just too big for our customers’ needs at the outset, that our customers’ projects might not have priority relative to orders from larger clients. Instead, we took our customer to meet a medium-sized enterprise that we had been dealing with for over a decade, and which we thought would be a perfect fit for them. Not only did this factory have the flexibility to undertake smaller projects and accommodate the customer’s present needs, they had the interest and resources to expand their production capabilities to produce a broader range of high-quality furniture for this customer as business grew. This is something our customer would never have been able to achieve with the suppliers they had been working with before Comtrad got involved.

Result: It was a win-win situation all around. Our customer was thrilled with the furniture, the reliability of delivery and the business growth. In parallel, we helped the manufacturer expand their production capacity and their product lineup. The whole exercise not only helped the supplier start a new business line and perfect new manufacturing techniques, it strengthened their relationship with Comtrad and enabled our customer to rapidly grow their own customer base now that a reliable supply chain was established.