•  Our Mission:

To create a community bond through interaction around our table—a bond that unites players, passersby, and donors.

•  What we do:

HENGE designs and manufactures concrete table tennis tables. We also coax donors into giving them to public spaces. We like to think of our tables as possessing a strong combination of recreational and aesthetic value. Our tables are manufactured in Alpena, Michigan and are engineered to last. We see the table as a singular way to bring a vigorous sport that's already well-loved to parks, schools and public spaces, as well as backyards. The table promotes fitness and social interaction, but it can also channel private resources to financially challenged parks and schools through our corporate donor program.

A henge is an oval earthen berm with an inner parallel ditch used as for social assembly in the middle ages. The most famous henge is of course Stonehenge located in Wiltshire County, England.

In the twentieth century artists coined the term Manhattan Henge for the days when the sun aligns exactly to laser down certain city streets as it sets or rises.

In the name HENGE we saw:

Nature--a piece of stone standing near trees in snowstorms or sun. 

Art--Stone Henge is a design worthy of Marfa, Ryonanji, or Lescaux, a balance of rock and space. 

City design--people need structures, both for self, family, and to mix with others. A henge provided the latter long ago. In the twenty-first century planners build compact and denser neighborhoods than in the suburban 1950s, to bring you to parks and retail you can reach by train, bike, or foot. A HENGE table in a park today adds stickiness, to borrow a web design term--people linger. 

Time--Stone stands for a long time. A sunbeam walking across the ground marks time when it shines through a hole in stone--the archways of Stone Henge or the portholes in a HENGE table. 

Business--built the great canyon grids known as Manhattan, London, Shanghai. Even in our modern stone henge city and home to our company we take nature seriously. We're not just a green business in our choice of concrete. Our goal is to get people outdoors to hang out, move, and laugh.