Being a product designer and having worked for a fortune 500 company developing consumer products for big box retailers, I have experience working with a wide range of suppliers from around the globe and understand the importance of having strong manufacturing partners. Now that I'm currently part of a small product design startup (Distil Union, LLC), having reliable and dependable manufacturers is vital to our success and Gerber Wood has been a manufacturing rockstar for us.
We worked with Gerber Wood to develop and manufacture the wood body for "Snooze", an iPhone alarm dock that is made of solid wood and features a slappable snooze bar. The wood components required tight tolerances and a high level of fit and finish in order to meet our design standards. Snooze not only needed to be functional, but it also had to be a beautiful object and the wood elements were key in achieving that. We relied on their expertise to help us:
- select the right type of wood species to achieve the look and feel we wanted.
- fine tune the design of the wood parts for more efficient manufacturing.
- select a durable, consumer product grade finish.
At the end of the day, Steve and his team exceed our expectations on every level and consistently delivered high quality parts on time, on budget and to spec. I can honestly say Gerber Wood Products is one of the best manufacturers I have ever used and more importantly, I enjoyed working with them.