A contemporary of izzydesign, Sweetwater Products was launched in 2001 by furniture veteran Brad Stevenson as a high-tech manufacturer of wood-based office and institutional furniture and furniture products. The company focuses on flexible, freestanding furniture similar to offerings already available in the izzydesign portfolio, including casegoods, tables and work surfaces. It has found particular success in integrating information technology and manufacturing systems to create engineered-to-order products, what the firm refers to as “parametric” technology.
Sweetwater Products will close its 70,000-square-foot
by the end of the year. Manufacturing equipment and parametric technology systems will relocate to the izzydesign facility at
in
Stevenson will join izzydesign as director of operations of the
“We are very pleased to have a new group of talented individuals on our team, who bring a new literacy to izzy,” said Chuck Saylor founder and president of izzydesign.