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Company Introduction & History
Founded in Melbourne, Australia in 1963 by designer and master toolmaker Gordon Rattray, Eyeline is the world's first swimming goggle manufacturer. Rattray was trying to spare swimmers chlorine-stung eyes. He produced the world's first injection-molded polycarbonate swim goggle that same year. The features now taken for granted on every modern swim goggle — the polycarbonate lens, the sealed gasket against the eye socket, the slotted nosepiece — started here. One of those first models, the Aqua Mate, became an early bestseller and is still in our Classic line today. By 1976 the goggles were standard kit at the Olympics.
The company has always run on three things: engineering capability, process control, and long-haul manufacturing reliability. That hasn't changed. We invested early in fully in-house capability — design, tooling, precision injection molding, surface treatment, assembly, ISO-certified QC — which is what now lets us run OEM and ODM programs with the control, consistency, and confidentiality brands need. We've led multiple Olympic ODM projects, most recently the 2012 London and 2020 Tokyo Games.
Manufacturing at Scale
A vertically integrated swimming goggle factory built for global brand partners. Six decades of heritage. Modern automation. Output you can plan around.
Day to day, the operation runs across industrial design, optical lens engineering, anti-fog coating chemistry, automation, and ongoing cost and process work. Our anti-fog formulations are mixed and applied in-house — that's why they hold up consistently from one production run to the next.
Our 38,000 m² Suzhou facility runs 60+ machines across 4 production plants and 8 assembly lines. Every critical process is developed, validated, and controlled in-house. Global brand partners audit the factory regularly — which is how we keep quality stable, hit faster development cycles, and stay a dependable long-term supplier. Learn more about our Compliance standards.
We run custom and private label programs for brands that want a dedicated production partner. ODM from a blank sheet, or production of your existing designs — either way, our team owns it end to end: concept, tooling, sampling, volume.
We keep investing in materials, tooling, automation, and test methods. See the Technology behind our swim goggles.
- Years of heritage
- 60+Years of heritageFounded in Melbourne, 1963. Manufacturing in Suzhou today.
- Pairs produced annually
- 2M+Pairs produced annuallyVerified output from our Suzhou facility, with 10M+ scalable capacity.
- Production plants
- 4Production plantsSpecialized facilities for injection, coating, assembly, and printing.
- Assembly lines
- 8Assembly linesConfigurable for everything from racing to junior swim goggles.
- Countries served
- 50+Countries servedBrand partners across Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia.
- In-house capability
- 100%In-house capabilityDesign, engineering, tooling, molding, and finishing under one roof.
Design & Development
Our Taipei Design Center works on the things swimmers actually feel: lighter, more hydrodynamic shapes, a closer facial fit, and pressure spread evenly around the eye socket instead of digging in at a few points. The team designs to both Asian and Western face geometries, builds corrective-lens and triathlon variants off the same platforms, and shapes the lenses for a wider field of view — each profile tuned to a specific kind of swimmer, not a one-size-fits-all mold. See our Design Process.
Sustainability
Sustainability runs through how we operate. The Suzhou facility is ISO 14001:2015 certified. Our annual electricity demand — around 3,430 MWh — is covered by certified solar bought through the domestic power exchange, and brand partners’ ESG teams verify it.
Recycled material is built into the injection program — not bolted on. We run formalized regrind ratios on every injection material in volume production, validated under independent Environmental Impact Assessment approval, and tracked through process-capability monitoring rather than ad-hoc reuse. We also supply recycled-content packaging (including the swim goggle cases themselves) and qualify bio-based materials and lower-impact packaging with brand partners on every program.
A wider energy-reduction program is running across our injection lines: barrel insulation jackets, mold insulation plates, idle-machine solenoid cutoffs, ESD/static-control upgrades, IE4-class motor replacements, and a sub-metered energy monitoring system that gives brand partners facility-level intensity data on demand. The data feeds straight into the ESG plans we share with certified global customers.