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The Armadillo® catalogue is here.
The full Armadillo® range in one place: seating, modular pieces, our Bariatric collection, new shapes and Cushions. Purpose-built for mental health, corrections, youth justice and aged care environments.
Not the only option. Just the best one.
Made in our own New Zealand factory, Abecca specialises in anti-ligature furniture for mental health, youth justice, correctional, hospital and aged care environments: places where safety, durability and comfort are essential. Our foam-structured designs help create calm, secure spaces for service users, staff and residents.
With more than 70 years of manufacturing expertise, Abecca blends craftsmanship with continuous innovation. Our range keeps evolving in design, colour and style, delivering flexible, modern solutions for the unique demands of high-risk settings.
Whether you need fully customised pieces or trusted collections like Armadillo®, Eagle™ and Hawk™, Abecca offers practical solutions to everyday furniture challenges, supporting safer, calmer environments.
Made in New Zealand. Stocked in Australia. Available worldwide.
7 Year Warranty
We’re so confident in the durability of our latest Armadillo® furniture that we offer a 7-year structural guarantee.
Made in New Zealand. Stocked in Australia. Available worldwide.
Abecca manufactures every piece in our own New Zealand factory, so quality stays in our hands. Our Australian warehouse keeps stock close to our trans-Tasman customers, and we ship to facilities anywhere in the world.
Environment ISO 14001
Health & Safety ISO 45001
Quality ISO 9001
7 Year Warranty
We’re so confident in the durability of our latest Armadillo® furniture that we offer a 7-year structural guarantee.
Locally Made
At Abecca we manufacture our safe furniture in both New Zealand and Australia.
This enables full control over every process step, from design to production to quality and rapid supply.
Locally Made
At Abecca we manufacture our safe furniture in both New Zealand and Australia.
This enables full control over every process step, from design to production to quality and rapid supply.
Explore our wide selection of safe furniture designed to prioritise safety in any situation, sector or industry for service users, staff and residents.
Mental Health
Mental health environments ask a lot of furniture. It needs to be safe for people in acute distress. It needs to withstand daily use in demanding clinical settings. It needs to meet strict infection control requirements. And it needs to feel like a place of care, not a place of containment.
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Youth Justice
Youth justice facilities require furniture that addresses a specific and complex set of needs. Young people in secure environments are at elevated risk, and the furniture they live with every day is part of the clinical and custodial risk picture. It needs to support the kind of environment where rehabilitation is actually possible.
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Corrections Furniture
Corrections environments place the most demanding requirements on furniture of any setting. Furniture must resist misuse and mishandling. It must be engineered to significantly reduce ligature risk across every surface and profile. And it must do all of this across years of continuous use in environments that test everything.
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Our furniture is crafted to the highest standards to meet your unique requirements.
Take a look at some of our most popular designs below, or get in touch to discuss a fully customised solution.
Of mental health units in NZ use Abecca’s safe Furniture.
Of NZ prisons utilise Abecca’s safe furniture products.
Of our safe furniture uses foam as the key structural element.
Abecca are designers, innovators and manufacturers, with quality at the forefront of everything we make. Our story began in 1952, when David Beatson returned from World War II and started making and repairing hard-wearing canvas horse and cow covers.
Over the decades that expertise moved into healthcare, where we developed specialist products such as radiology positioning supports. In 2015, working with care facilities facing furniture that was being broken, thrown and turned into a hazard, we began designing solid foam furniture for high-risk environments.
Today, more than 70 years on, everything we make is designed and manufactured in our own New Zealand factory. Watch our video to learn more.
Our belief in our products ensures consistent quality.
Our friendly team is always ready to assist with your safe furniture needs – we would love to chat.
