About
Medifab
What
We Do
We specialise in Complex Rehab Technology
We design, source & supply
Our 'can-do' approach
We specialise in Complex Rehab Technology (CRT)

Medifab is a team of specialists dedicated to helping children and adults who have significant disabilities and medical conditions. CRT products enable these individuals to deal with their daily physical, functional and cognitive challenges and play a critical role in addressing the complex medical needs of these children and adults and in keeping them active and functional within their homes and communities.

This is Medifab

Medifab provides a vast range of equipment to assist people of all ages with Medical difficulties. We are a stockist of international solutions and keep up to date with World-leading technology bringing you professional solutions from our well-experienced team.

  • Individually configured manual & powered wheelchair systems
  • Adaptive seating systems
  • Alternative positioning systems
  • Other devices that require evaluation, design & fitting
We believe that listening, and a ‘can-do’ approach make a big difference for our customers.

Our team of experienced problem-solvers are dedicated to finding a solution for your challenge. We listen carefully to your needs and make it our prerogative to find a solution for them. We customise and adapt to provide products that work for every customer’s individual and personal requirements.

We constantly strive to improve the comfort and well-being of all users and we are committed to bringing the best product to our customers. Our products not only supply independence and function but also keep the overall cost of healthcare down by reducing additional medical complications and caregiver requirements.

The following video produced by NCART gives a great description of Complex Rehab Technology.

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Our mission is
'Shaping Better Lives'
Medifab make a positive difference to lives of persons with a disability, therapists and carers globally by providing leading edge postural support solutions for a wide range of special needs.
Our Values
Medifab values are contained in the word "Lives" - taken from the company mission of 'Shaping Better Lives'.
Loyalty
We're committed to our team, our suppliers, partners, and every one of our clients, bound by trust, loyalty, and respect. Every person and every life matters. Together, we shape better tomorrows for all.
Integrity
We uphold the strongest moral and ethical principles every day. We act with responsibility, honesty, sincerity, and transparency to create an environment of trust, stability, and dependability. Because, when it comes to Shaping Better Lives, integrity is integral.
Visionary Thinking
Innovation sits at the heart of our company, driving us to constantly challenge the status quo. We lead rather than follow, always at the forefront of innovation to re-shape our industry.
Excellence
We're committed to shaping a culture of excellence, empowerment, and collective contribution, so that we provide exceptional service and products to you, our customers.
Solutions
We're a team of creative, 'can-do' problem solvers, dedicated to finding solutions for the most complex medical challenges, and enabling our clients to live better lives.
Our
People

The people of Medifab are what sets us apart!

Our team is a creative bunch of solution finders, passionate about helping others, and being a happy and positive light in the world of those we are privileged to work with.

Meet the team!

Our
Branches

With branches all over New Zealand, we are never far away!

We have Offices, Clinic Rooms and Warehouses country-wide and our Product Specialists travel to all corners of New Zealand.

Auckland

  • Medifab Branch

Palmerston North

Wellington

  • Medifab Branch

Christchurch

  • Medifab Comfort Hub
  • Medifab Branch: Rolleston
Robbie  
3 years old
Robbie's Story
A lovely happy boy despite all the challenges that he faces
Read the full story Watch Robbie's Story
Teimana  
7 years old
Hope for Teimana
Providing greater quality of life through specialised seating moulded to fit his postural requirements
Read the full story Watch Teimana's Story
Women sits in her wheelchair holding a coffee outdoors.
Kylee  
32 years old
Kylee's Story
"A wheelchair doesn't limit me..."
Read the full story Watch Kylee's Story
Our
Innovation
Our Innovative & Creative Strengths
Designing to Shape Better Lives
We Listen
NZ - Land of Innovation
International Backing
Our Innovative & Creative Strengths

Medifab has the fortitude to think ‘outside the square’ and constantly look beyond the immediate bounds of our own company in our search for ideas in our endeavour to shape better lives for our customers. This stems from a strong desire to bring new ideas to market and to collaborate with different markets. Our research community is focused on improving performance, reliability, durability and sustainability.

 

 

 

Designing to Shape Better Lives

It all starts with what products can make someone’s life easier, safer, more enjoyable and more comfortable. We keep focused on our mission. We believe that caregivers can lead a more fun and dynamic lifestyle in their care role, so we are driven to provide the needed product solutions to do so.

We Listen

We listen to feedback about our products and also to daily problems and anxieties that abound in our industry then discover the route to overcome them. By listening and paying attention means we can continue to deliver our mission of helping lives.

NZ – Land of Innovation

The video, ‘CREATED HERE’, below was produced by the Gibson Group, showcasing the spectrum of New Zealand innovation. See innovative technology from New Zealand in action. Take a journey of New Zealand through inspiring innovations from robotic fruit pickers and geothermal energy right through to boats that you can drive to the beach.

Watch 'CREATED HERE'
International Backing

Medifab benefits from international support and growth strategies from New Zealand Trade & Enterprise (NZTE) who work with us to succeed internationally. New Zealand Trade and Enterprise is the New Zealand Government’s national economic development agency. Through their network of offices and private sector experts worldwide, they aim to improve the international capability, competitiveness and sustained profitability of New Zealand business by providing access to people, knowledge and opportunities.

Find out more about New Zealand here.

Artisan
by Medifab

The team here at Medifab have always loved to make creative solutions for the clients we help. No client is ever the same, so sometimes it takes a ‘little extra’ than what is simply ‘off-the-shelf’ to send someone away with what they ultimately need on their wheelchair or seating solution.

Putting brackets and bolts together to form special supports and fashioning amazing shapes out of foam… It’s in the blood of many of the staff here – we just love what we do! That’s why we have recognised this unique talent with a dedicated offering; ‘Artisan by Medifab’!

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Our
Story
Always striving to fulfil our mission of Shaping Better Lives, Medifab's growth and success over the last 30 years have been thanks to a brilliant team of creative minds and 'outside of the box' thinking. A combination of passion, resourcefulness, integrity and outstanding craftsmanship enables Medifab to design innovative technology for special needs equipment. This passion for solution-finding has led to some significant breakthrough moments over the years...
30 Years of Shaping Better Lives
... as a truly unique and inspired New Zealand-based company, that has revolutionised life-enhancing products to provide postural support solutions for the physically challenged and disabled.
1990: Journey to Shape Better Lives begins.
Established as a family run business in Auckland, Medifab emerges out of a background in vehicle seating technology, with focus on driver rehabilitation.
1991: Custom modular wheelchair seating
First custom projects undertaken. Thus began the development of Specification Wheelchair Seating.
1996: Shower Frames developed
To meet a need for space-saving folding shower frames, particularly in disability bathrooms.
1998: Growth Proportionate Seating (GPS)
System developed to allow fine-tuned, exact seating to properly seat and position special needs of all ages, starting from a size 0 to provide crucial early intervention. The development of this ‘GPS’ technology has continued through the Spex Seating and Spex Kidz ranges which provide fully adjustable, superior seating solutions compatible with most wheelchair bases.
2001: Symmetrisleep pioneered
Night time positioning and around-the-clock 24 hour postural care was introduced to New Zealand.
2003: South Island Expansion
The second Medifab branch opens in Ashburton, New Zealand's South Island.
2005: Launch of Shuttle and Spex
Recognising the need for early intervention care led Medifab to develop this versatile postural management seating for infants and toddlers. Specification seating now produced as modular off-the-shelf and rebranded Spex.
2009: Australian Expansion
To meet Australian customer needs better, Medifab's first Australian branch is opened.
2014: Discovery Takes Off
The Shuttle pushchair seating system was taken to a whole new level from both an aesthetic and functional point of view, with the launch of Shuttle Discovery.

Shuttle Discovery wins first prize in the commercial category at the Better Technology Awards, funded by the National Committee on Rehabilitation Engineering in Australia.
2015: ISO 9001 Certification
Formal certification demonstrates Medifab’s commitment to quality, productivity and customer satisfaction.

2015 also brought new, purpose-built facilities with Medifab's relocation and expansion to a brand-new premises in the Izone Southern Business Hub; situated just south of Christchurch, in Rolleston.
Medifab Today!
30 years into the journey it has certainly been an exciting ride for the team at Medifab. With these kinds of game-changing innovations and the development of now over 130 products, it is easy to see why the company has emerged as a leader in its field.

Medifab recently received recognition as a …

“… hugely successful company – set to go places with a solid history, impeccable core values, a vibrant, expanding team, massive product potential and the vision, passion and drive to go global.”

Medifab is equally as passionate about the road ahead and what the future of continued exciting innovation will bring for our customers.

Our Sustainable
Advantage
Medifab is dedicated to protecting our environment and ensuring a clean future for our descendants.

You can have confidence in Medifab’s management of environmental aspects and impacts associated with the manufacture and supply of equipment for people with postural and physical challenges.

As a caring, corporate citizen, Medifab supports the responsible stewardship of the earth, its inhabitants and resources.

Our products are designed to last, and their manufacture, use and disposal embody the environmental principles of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

Download Medifab's Sustainability Policy
Our products are designed to last, and their manufacture, use and disposal embody the environmental principles of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
Reduce
Medifab reduces the amount of raw materials used and manufactures according to Lean principles which eliminate waste in the manufacturing processes.
Reuse
Medifab believes in reusability and reissuability. Our products are designed for long life, with most Spex Seating parts being able to be reused for other clients during the product's life cycle. Medifab's purchasing team only selects products and components of the highest quality, so that our customers gain many years of use of their Medifab products.
Recycle
Medifab maximises the use of recycled content. Metals are recycled.

We pride ourselves in uncompromised quality.

Medifab’s operations centre has achieved ISO 9001:2015 certification as well as ISO 13485:2016 certification. You can have confidence that Medifab’s Quality Management System ensures we will supply equipment for people with postural and physical challenges, that will consistently meet your requirements.

To maintain customer confidence in Medifab’s effectiveness, Telarc regularly reviews our management system for compliance with standards.

Download Medifab's Quality Policy