Machine fleet
A comprehensive fleet of injection moulding machines from 20 to 3000 tonne, suited to parts of virtually any scale.
Family-owned injection moulding · Melbourne · Est. 1989
Made in Melbourne. People you can trust.
We're a family-run injection moulder that takes your product from sketch to pallet under one roof — no offshore freight gamble, no quality lottery, no chasing a factory eleven time zones away.
Quietly behind products you already know
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What we make
Serious moulding capacity, all in one building
Whether you're moulding a 40-gram clip or a 25-kilogram playhouse, the presses, the toolroom and the engineers are all here — so the answer to "can you make this?" is usually just yes.
In-house toolroom
Production tooling designed, manufactured and trialled, then sampled and refined until every part runs to specification.
Multi-cavity tooling
Single and multi-cavity moulds engineered around your target volumes, unit-cost objectives and quality requirements.
Quick turnarounds
Local manufacturing keeps quoting, sampling and repeat production moving, with lead times measured in weeks.
Materials expertise
PP, HDPE, ABS, nylon and engineering grades, including food-contact, UV-stabilised and recycled polymers.
Design for manufacture
Rigorous engineering review of every part, addressing cost, cavitation and cycle-time before tooling commences.
Assembly & finishing
Ultrasonic welding, hot-stamping, labelling and kitting deliver finished components that arrive fully retail-ready.
Warehousing & dispatch
On-site warehousing and scheduled call-off ensure stock is delivered precisely when your program requires it.
A snapshot of what leaves our floor
Chances are there's a Fountain part in your shed, your garden or your kids' backyard right now.
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Why make it here
Offshore looks cheaper. Until it isn't.
We get it — the unit price from overseas can look hard to argue with. But the sticker rarely tells the whole story. Here's what landing a product actually costs once you count the headaches.
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Lead time & freight
Buying offshore 8–12 weeks on the water, plus port delays and container costs that swing with the market.
Making it with Fountain Made down the road. Repeat runs ship in 2–3 weeks, not a quarter.
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Minimum orders
Buying offshore Huge MOQs that force you to tie up cash in stock you don't need yet.
Making it with Fountain Run sizes that match your real demand — scale up when you're ready.
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Quality & recourse
Buying offshore A bad batch is discovered on arrival, and good luck getting it put right.
Making it with Fountain We're an hour away. Problems get sorted in person, on the same week.
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Your tooling & IP
Buying offshore Your mould lives on someone else's floor, in someone else's country.
Making it with Fountain You own the tool. It stays here, documented and insured, and it's yours to move.
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Why Fountain
You're not dealing with a megafactory. You're dealing with us.
Fountain has been family-owned since 1989. The person who quotes your job is the person who'll still pick up the phone in year three. We're big enough to run your national program and small enough to actually care how it turns out.
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Everything under one roof
Design, tooling, moulding, QA and dispatch in one Melbourne building. Nothing gets lost in a hand-off between suppliers.
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One accountable team
No brokers, no middlemen, no "that's not our department." You get straight answers from the people doing the work.
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Three decades of proof
Some of the tools we cut in the nineties are still running. We build for the long haul because we plan to be here for it.
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- 1989 Factory first opened with two moulding machines
- 1994 Won our first national retail contract
- 1997 Added machines and began designing and making our own tooling
- 2014 Began incorporating recycled polymers
- 2021 Closed-loop regrind across the whole plant
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Who we make for
If it's moulded and it matters, we've probably made it
Four decades on one floor means we've solved a lot of problems across a lot of industries. A few of the ones we know inside out:
Retail & consumer brands
Homewares, garden, kids and storage products built to survive a retail returns policy and look good doing it.
Building & construction
Fittings, fixtures and site products engineered to spec and made to pass inspection, batch after batch.
Materials handling & industrial
Crates, bins, tubs and pallets that take a beating on the floor and keep their shape for years.
Agriculture & horticulture
Pots, planters and nursery products in UV-stable and recycled grades, made for the Australian sun.
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Proof
Don't take our word for it
On shelves in Australia's top retail chains
Trusted supplier to Woolworths, Mitre 10, Big W
Trusted supplier to Bunnings Warehouse Australia & New Zealand
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How it works
Seven steps. One roof.
Every stage happens on our floor, run by one team — so nothing falls through the cracks between a good idea and a finished product.
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Concept
Bring us a sketch, a sample or a CAD file. We'll workshop geometry, materials and target cost until it's ready for engineering.
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Develop
Design for manufacture, done properly — wall sections, draft, gates and mould-flow analysis before a dollar is spent on steel.
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Prototype
Hold it before you tool it. Machined and printed prototypes prove form, fit and function and de-risk what comes next.
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Tooling
Our toolroom cuts production moulds from hardened steel — built for millions of cycles and maintained here for life.
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Manufacture
Our presses run recycled and virgin polymers around the clock, with process monitoring on every shot.
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Quality Assurance
Every batch is measured, tested and signed off against your spec before it's allowed off the floor.
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Delivery
Warehoused, packed and delivered on your schedule — to your DC, your co-packer or shelf-ready.
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Sustainability
Recycled in. Recyclable out.
Plastic done right is durable, lightweight and endlessly remouldable. That's why recycled and recyclable polymers aren't a premium add-on here — they're how we work by default.
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Recycled feedstock
Post-consumer and post-industrial resins — rPP, rHDPE and PCR blends — qualified and batch-traced to retail-grade performance.
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Closed-loop regrind
Sprues, runners and rejects are reground and sent back to the press. Our process waste becomes parts, not landfill.
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Designed for end of life
Mono-material construction, recycling codes moulded in, and colourways chosen to keep polymer streams clean.
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Good questions
The things buyers actually ask us
It depends on part size and cavitation, but most programs start from 5,000–10,000 units. For high-volume retail programs we scale to millions of parts a year.
You do. We design, cut and maintain your moulds, but the asset is yours — documented, insured and stored on site at no charge while we're producing your parts.
Often closer than you'd think once freight, MOQs, holding costs and rework are counted. And you carry far less risk. We'll quote honestly and show you the real landed comparison.
It's our default. We run qualified rPP, rHDPE and PCR blends with full batch traceability, and we'll validate recycled options against your performance spec during development.
Typically 2–4 weeks for prototypes, 6–10 weeks for production tooling, and 2–3 weeks for repeat runs once your mould is on the floor.
A 3D CAD file (STEP or IGES) is ideal, but a 2D drawing, a physical sample or even a sketch is enough to start. An NDA first is standard practice.
Let's build something
Tell us what you're making.
Send it over and a real engineer will come back within two business days — with questions, options and honest numbers. No call-centre, no run-around.
- A real person replies within two business days
- NDA-first reviews as standard
- Honest DFM feedback included with every quote