How a Noordi Pram Is Made: From Scottish Fields to Your Front Door

Short answer: A Noordi pram follows one path under one roof. We choose fabrics across Europe, design and engineer every part in our lab in Kaunas, then build it floor by floor: aluminium frames on the first floor, every soft part sewn on the second, assembly and final checks on the third, with solar panels on the roof. Prams have been made in this factory since 1993.

Most people meet a pram in a shop, already folded into a box. We would like to show you the part that happens before that: the quiet, patient work of turning fabric, aluminium and a lot of small decisions into something a family will push along a forest path for years.

It is a path we can walk in a single morning. Everything below happens in one building in Kaunas, Lithuania, in the European Union, where prams have been made since 1993.

Step 00 · Before it all begins

Fabrics, chosen across Europe

Before anything is cut or sewn, we go looking. We search Europe for the right fabrics, from the fields of Scotland to the mountains of Scandinavia, and keep only the ones that feel right in the hand and hold up to real weather.

Back in Kaunas, every swatch is laid against a real hood and carrycot, in daylight, before a colour earns its name.

Step 01 · Design studio

A sketch, a colour, a hundred small details

Every Noordi starts on paper. Our designers draw the lines of the frame and the soft shapes of the hood, then work through colour studies until a pram feels calm rather than loud.

Details are tried on a real stroller, not only on screen: where a hand rests, how a buckle closes, how the hood looks from a child’s side.

Step 02 · The lab

It all starts in the lab

Our engineers model frames, folds and suspension in 3D, so every part fits before the first prototype is built. Then the prototypes go to work.

One of the tests we are proudest of is also the least glamorous: a pram runs for 72 hours non-stop on the vibration table with 24 kg in the carrycot. It is the closest thing we know to years of cobbles and forest roots, compressed into three days.

Step 03 · Floor 1

Aluminium becomes a frame

On the first floor, straight aluminium tubes arrive in bundles and leave as frames. They are cut to length, bent on the machines, welded by robots, painted and riveted together.

• Cutting and bending give the frame its lines.
• Robotic welding keeps every joint the same, pram after pram.
• Painting protects the aluminium from rain, salt and years of use.
• Riveting joins the parts that need to move and fold.

Light enough to lift onto a bus. Strong enough for the path behind the house.

Step 04 · Floor 2

Every soft part is sewn here

One floor up, it is quieter. Our seamstresses cut and sew every fabric part of a Noordi: carrycots, seats, hoods and bags. Each seam is checked by hand, because a hood is something a parent touches a hundred times a day.

Step 05 · Floor 3

Where it all comes together

On the assembly lines, frames meet fabrics, wheels and brakes. Every pram is put together and checked by hand, from the fold to the brakes, the harness and every seam, before it is packed for its first journey.

Step 06 · The test benches

Tested before it meets a path

Wheels are checked for hardness, frames and whole prams run for hours on the vibration table, and our prams are tested to the European pram standard EN 1888. When design, production and testing share a building, a problem found on the test bench can go straight back to the floor that made the part.

If you would like to know what EN 1888 covers, we explain it in EN 1888 explained.

Step 07 · On the roof

Powered by the sun above

The last stop in the building is the roof. Solar panels there help power the machines on the floors below, the final part of a path that stays under one roof.

Step 08 · The road

From Kaunas to your door

Many prams travel a long way before they reach a shop in Europe. Ours set off from Kaunas, in the heart of Europe, and orders within the EU usually arrive in 2–5 business days, with free delivery across the EU.

Explore the map: where it is made, and how far it travels to reach you.

Distances on the map are straight-line distances from our factory in Kaunas.

Made here

Every Noordi pram comes with a 2-year warranty and 14-day returns. You can read more about our factory in Where are Noordi prams made? and about the people behind it on About us.

Frequently asked questions

A pram is a small thing to build so carefully. But it is the thing that carries the first walks, the long naps under the trees and the slow way home. We think that is worth a whole building.