Glide Products Information

Glide is a specialist Australian manufacturer of high-quality manual and powered wheelchairs. Every one of our clients has unique needs, totally different mobility challenges, and personal comfort preferences. Glide understands that there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Our mission is to make it easier for you to prescribe and order a chair that is totally tailored for your client’s comfort, safety and mobility. As an Australian manufacturer with 40 years’ experience, we have built a reputation for quality workmanship and meticulous service. We are a registered NDIS provider and the first Australian wheelchair manufacturer to achieve ISO 9001 Quality Assurance accreditation. Making exceptional wheelchairs that are completely tailored to customer specifications is in Glide’s DNA. The company was founded in the seventies by two engineering brothers who had contracts to manufacture equipment for Perth hospitals. One of the hospitals asked the brothers if they could make wheelchairs as it often took months for wheelchair orders to arrive from overseas. The prototyped wheelchair model became so successful that orders started coming from all over Australia. Today, Glide produces manual and powered wheelchairs ranging from children to bariatric models. Glide tailor makes most wheelchairs to order in its own workshop facilities in Western Australia. Although Glide utilises new technologies and processes to maintain efficiency and give a competitive edge, the secret to producing such well-made wheelchairs is the knowledge and loyalty of their craftspeople. Many of them have worked at Glide for 10 to 30 years. In the spirit of reconciliation Glide acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.