History

Bryan Mackenzie, fitter and turner, created an entire business with an idea in steel.

When Bryan decided to build a spiral staircase to the cellar of his home he had no idea he was creating a revolutionary new building product. His unique modular design was so simple and so elegant that he was soon making them for friends and 35 years later the stairs are used throughout Australia and exported to Australasia, Europe, Asia and the Americas.

“Spiral Staircases have been around since the year dot”

Bryan is the first to acknowledge that spiral staircases are nothing new. The trouble is that the originals were made from stone while later structures were cast iron. What Bryan has done is brought the spiral staircase up to date in construction and price.

“In your boot and up in a day”

The use of steel has resulted in simple, mechanical jointing details so that handymen as well as builders and renovators can assemble the staircase in a day. The staircase is made up to fit exactly your specific floor-to-floor height from stock components and spacers. enzie® spiral staircases are manufactured entirely from steel so they will never warp, twist or crack like conventional wooden stairs. It’s our guarantee.

1974 - enzie Was Founded

Bryan Mackenzie First had his idea to build a spiral staircase to access a basement he build in a small Terrace house in the Inner North of Melboure

1975 - First Showroom Opened in Fitzroy

enzie® opened it’s first showroom in Fitzroy. Running out of s mall terrace building In Gertrude Street Fitzroy enzie manages to squeeze a showroom out the front and a factory out the back, which occasional overflow to the laneways streets of Fitzroy

1980 - The Award Winning Stair People

The early 1980’s was when enzie started being nominated for, and winning, a number of awards including the Australian Design Awards (now known as the Good Design Awards)

1983 - Expansion around Australia and relocation to Fairfield

Off the back of winning the Australia Design Awards enzie® stairs started to be asked for around Australia. Enzie started a distribution network to cater for this demand and relocated its showroom and Factory to Fairfield

1991 - International Distrubtion

Demand from Sigapore, Hong Kong and Japan lead to enzie®appointing it’s first international distrutors

1995 - Introduction of Just-In-Time-Manufacturing

Insipired by Japanese production methodoly anda desire to minimise waste enzie® adopted Just In Time manufacturing resulting in efficincy improvments and reduced lead times

1997 - Introduction of Computer Aided Design

enzie® was started to ingrate Computer Aided Design into their manufacturing system allow for tight tolerances and more advanced designs and

2000 - Launch of Stainless Steel Stairs

To celebrate the 25 year anniversary of enzie® launched a range of stainless steel stairs. Stainless steel offer tremendous benefits beyond the aesthetic including incredible corrosion resistance and low maintenance performance

2008 - Introduction of Universal Range of Spiral Stairs

2008 brough the introduction of the Universal Series of stairs. The universal series of treads was introduced to respond to emerging trends in design and was made possible thanks to enzie® investing in modernising it’s manufacturing system

2015 - Move to CNC Manufacturing

enzie® started investing heavily in CNC manufacturing starting with purchase of a CNC router and CNC Band Saw. These machines where introduced to improve the manufacturing of existing components as well and introduce new designs

2019 - Relocation of Manufacturing Facility to Reservoir

Responding to growth enzie® moved to a manufacturing facility 3 times the size of their existing plant in Fairfield Victoria. This move allowed enzie® to install a brand new powder-coating facility

2021 - Opening of Sydney Showroom

Our previous showroom inside the Home Iea’s center closed when the center itself closed in 2013. 2021 saw the opening of our new showroom at 90 May Street St Peters

2022 - 5 Axis CNC routing capabilities added

enzie saw the growth in demand for complex timber profile handrails including spiral handrails with LED strip inserts. enzie responded by commissioning the installation of a 5-Axis CNC router allowing for the production of complex timber components machined on all faces.

2023 - 3D laser scanning

All enzie stairs are designed in-house in a 3D CAD environment allowing mm accuracy. Sometimes stairs are installed into a building constructed long before a 3D CAD environment existed. For these applications and others, capturing this environment to bring it into CAD requires laser scanning. enzie has added this service to their services through the commissioning of a modern 3D Leica laser scanner.

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