--- title: "Swimming Goggle Factory in China | About Eyeline" description: "The world's first swimming goggle manufacturer — founded 1963 in Melbourne. A 38,000 m² ISO-certified factory in Suzhou with Olympic ODM heritage." url: https://www.eyelineswim.com/about --- > Markdown mirror of https://www.eyelineswim.com/about — generated at build time for AI agents and LLM readers. Canonical HTML page: same URL without `.md`. Site index for agents: https://www.eyelineswim.com/llms.txt ![Eyeline swimming goggle manufacturer — Suzhou facility, world's first swim goggle company since 1963](https://www.eyelineswim.com/hero/hero-about-beach-heritage.webp) # Swimming Goggle Factory in China — Manufacturing Since 1963 Founded in Melbourne in 1963. Manufacturing in Suzhou today. One of the few swim goggle operations that runs the whole stack in-house — design, tooling, injection, coating, assembly. Last updated: June 13, 2026 ## Company Introduction & History ![Eyeline swim goggle range from the world's first swimming goggle manufacturer, founded in Melbourne 1963](https://www.eyelineswim.com/images/lifestyle-swim-goggle-coastal.webp) The Aqua Mate goggle. One of our first best sellers. Founded in Melbourne, Australia in 1963 by designer and master toolmaker **Gordon Rattray**, Eyeline is [the world's first swimming goggle manufacturer](https://www.eyelineswim.com/index.md). 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. ![Swimmer underwater in a pool wearing Eyeline swim goggles](https://www.eyelineswim.com/images/lifestyle-underwater-pool-swimmer.webp) Glide - Eyeline Swimming Goggles 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](https://www.eyelineswim.com/compliance.md) 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. As a factory-direct swim goggle manufacturer, brands buy from the people who actually make the product — no trading-company markup sitting between the mold and the shipping pallet. The same lines run adult, junior, and kids’ swim goggles, single pairs through multipack sets, so a brand can consolidate a full range with one swim goggle factory in Suzhou, China. We keep investing in materials, tooling, automation, and test methods. See the [Technology](https://www.eyelineswim.com/technology.md) 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](https://www.eyelineswim.com/design.md). ## 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](https://www.eyelineswim.com/compliance.md) global customers. Eyeline now supplies brands across Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia — established global names and newer performance labels. Scale and reach have grown. The philosophy hasn't. ### Design with purpose. Manufacture with discipline. Improve relentlessly. That's how we develop products, run processes, and build long-term partnerships. Explore our full catalog. [Product Catalog](https://www.eyelineswim.com/products.md) Ready to discuss your project? [Contact our OEM team](https://www.eyelineswim.com/contact.md)