Workspace Factories combines the expertise and qualities of five renowned workspace product designers and manufacturers with one clear goal: to offer European and International customers and partners a broader, stronger, and more relevant product range.
This collaboration is based on strong local entrepreneurship, decades of manufacturing expertise, and dedicated local management. All companies within the group meet the highest sustainability requirements in their field and guarantee responsible manufacturing, processes, and sustainable products.
In recent years Workspace Factories has expanded and grown, with a number of strategic acquisitions, to become a stable, complementary group of specialists. Most recently with a further two acquisitions, the time has come to officially and publicly announce our launch, our concept, structure, and shared vision for the future.
In addition to Viasit and Rofa the new group members, Workspace Factories includes Pami, Robberechts, and Magnus Olesen. All five companies excel in their fields of expertise, from customised furnishing for projects, the manufacture of high-quality furniture, work chairs, soft seating, acoustic furniture, metal storage, lockers, and Scandinavian wooden furniture design.
This combination gives the affiliated brands access to an extensive distribution network with their own Experience Centres in Brussels, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Copenhagen, London, Paris, and Rotterdam. In this way, Workspace Factories will become one of the most comprehensive and innovative providers of workplace solutions in Europe.
“By combining the strengths of all five companies, all of which retain their individual identity, the group can now offer a complete portfolio of products, ranging from renowned Danish design wooden furniture, to sophisticated metal storage, customised lockers, to flexible hybrid workstations, work chairs, soft seating, acoustic solutions, and space dividers,” explains Goswin Fijen, founder and joint CEO of Workspace Factories. “This enables customers to source a package of solutions through the group’s partners, supported by specialists in each product category. Together, we employ 490 people and are aiming for cumulative group sales of €125 million by 2026.”
Thomas Schmeer (Managing Director of Viasit) and co-partner of the group: “Thanks to Workspace Factories, we can now offer our dealer partners a complete package of high-quality office and contract furniture, including highly professional interior design services, from a single source. We therefore see considerable growth opportunities due to the synergy with other group companies.”
Unlike other international companies, Workspace Factories has made a conscious decision to manufacture in Europe. The group factories, each with their own information centres in Turnhout and Pelt (BE), Tilburg (NL), Neunkirchen (DE) and Durup (DK) are close to the market and the people who work there. This guarantees sustainable, high-quality products, shorter lead times, a smaller ecological footprint, greater flexibility and tailor-made solutions for our customers.
“Europe continues to have a unique tradition of furniture manufacturing”, says Olivier Robberechts (Managing Director and co-shareholder of the group). “By pooling our expertise in this area, we are future-proofing the group companies and securing jobs in the long term. Individually, our companies cannot achieve this, but together we can. The group has in excess of 105,000 square metres of production capacity, creating new growth markets for each of our companies.”
