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Hospitality
Menu and wine-list covers, bill folders, in-room directories and table talkers, made to survive service.
Menu & wine-list covers 
Bill folders 
In-room directories 
Table talkers 
Placemats 
Ice buckets 
Reserved signs 
Visitors books
Our story
Dig a little deeper.
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Today
8 000 m², and the sun on the roof.
Solar panels cover a large part of the power we use, rainwater tanks a large part of our water, and most of our waste is recycled, because so much of what we work with can be.
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On the floor
A team that treats every job like its own.
Directors E. Wellens, A.M. Wellens and Y. Adhikarie run the business today. Costs come from a modern costing system, and quality and service remain the cornerstones the company rests on.
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1970
The ground under our floor came from the sea.
We built our own factory in 1970. At the same time the city council was building its new town hall on the foreshore, on land made of sand and shells taken from the ocean bed. That sand and those shells were dumped here to level our ground, and they still lie beneath the factory floor.
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Before that
A riverbed, and plenty of snakes.
The plot we bought had been a big river bed. When the bulldozers started levelling it, many snakes were caught.
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1960
From leather to soft PVC.
Six years in, A.G. Wellens moved the factory from leather to soft PVC, and with it to high-frequency welding, silkscreening and gold blocking. Many more processes have joined since.
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1954 · 1884
Built on a leather-goods family, in business since 1884.
A.G. Wellens came from a Dutch leather-goods family in business since 1884. In 1954 he started a leather goods factory in Cape Town. That factory is Modart.
A.G. Wellens