Standard Resin The honest entry point 500 lbs static capacity · 1 year coverage · from $22.98 White Resin Folding Chair ▸

This is the chair most people picture when they hear “white resin folding chair.” It is the least expensive grade Chivari builds, and it is built the same way as the rest of the line — 100% new resin with the color run through the material rather than painted on, fully assembled, no hardware to retighten.

What you give up at this price is capacity and seat real estate. At a 500 lb static rating it carries the lightest load in the guide, and its 14-inch seat is an inch and a quarter narrower than every other grade here. For a wedding ceremony that runs two hours and then goes back in the trailer, that is a reasonable trade. For a fleet turning forty-plus events a year, the frame is where you want the money.

Key differences, up close

Built-in stacking interlock on the seat underside — chairs lock together when stacked, then release cleanly.

Folds to roughly a 2.5-inch profile. Stacked chairs nest at 2.5 inches for transport.

Specifications

ToughResin™ The rental fleet workhorse 650 lbs static capacity · 2 years coverage · from $25.98 White ToughResin™ Folding Chair with White Vinyl Cushion ▸

ToughResin™ is the grade most rental companies end up standardizing on, and it is the cheapest chair in the line that publishes what is under the seat: a galvanized steel reinforced seat frame and commercial-grade galvanized hardware throughout. That is the difference between a chair that holds its geometry through a few hundred turns and one that starts to feel loose.

For three dollars over the entry grade, capacity moves up 150 lbs to 650 and the seat widens by an inch and a quarter to 15.25 inches. Across a 300-chair set, that is a materially different chair for a rounding error on the invoice.

The vinyl cushion is detachable and waterproof, built over CA117 fire-retardant foam, and it snaps off for cleaning or replacement in a couple of seconds — which matters more than it sounds like it does when one chair in a set of 300 comes back stained.

Key differences, up close

Snap-off vinyl cushion. Waterproof, CA117 fire-retardant foam, replaceable without tools.

Galvanized steel guide rods provide a smooth, secure unfold and fold up.

Specifications

SuperResin™ More capacity, and a seat height guests notice 850 lbs static capacity · 3 years coverage · from $31.98 White SuperResin™ Folding Chair ▸

SuperResin™ adds 200 lbs of static capacity over ToughResin™ and raises the seat from 16 inches to 18.13 inches. That seat height is the quietly important number: pulled up to a standard 30-inch banquet table, an 18-inch seat puts a guest at the table instead of under it, and the difference is obvious across a 400-cover room.

The frame is also deeper front-to-back, which spreads load and cuts the flex people read as cheapness. Plus, it’s outdoor friendly thanks to stainless steel hardware. If your fleet works corporate and hotel banquet business where guests sit through a three-course meal rather than a twenty-minute ceremony, this is the grade to look at first.

Key differences, up close

Strong and durable — rated to hold serious static load.

Additional support where it counts — metal reinforcement for unmatched stability.

Specifications

Corrosion-resistant option: White SuperResin™ Folding Chair with Stainless Steel Hardware (SKU CFRWS-AX-T) — same frame, stainless hardware for coastal, poolside, and washdown environments.

WoodGrain™ The wood look, without the wood 850 lbs static capacity · 2 years coverage · from $25.98 White WoodGrain™ Resin Folding Chair ▸

Wood folding chairs photograph beautifully and age badly. Left out overnight in Florida they mold; left out for a season they rot. They need touch-up paint, they need retightening, and they need someone to care for them.

WoodGrain™ is Chivari’s answer: a mold that reproduces not just the color of wood but its grain and surface texture, cast in the same weatherproof high-density resin as the rest of the line. Up close you can feel the grain. From two rows back, guests do not know it isn’t wood.

In white the texture reads as a subtle matte tooth rather than a strong figure — the grain is far more visible in the Fruitwood, Chestnut, Natural, and Mahogany finishes. Structurally this grade carries 850 lbs with reinforced cross bracing and an 18.5-inch seat height.

Key differences, up close

Molded grain on the leg and seat edge. Cast into the resin, cannot wear off.

Woodgrain texture appears as a soft matte tooth in raking light.

Specifications

Steel Skeleton™ Built for fleets that never stop 2,000 lbs static capacity · 10 years coverage · from $32.98 White with White Vinyl Cushion Resin Steel Skeleton™ Folding Chair ▸

Every chair above this one is resin holding itself up. This one is a welded steel frame with resin cast around it, and the numbers move accordingly: 2,000 lbs of static capacity against 500 for the entry grade, and a 10-year total frame warranty.

It costs 4.6 lbs more per chair, which your crew will feel on a 300-chair set. In exchange you get UV-stabilized resin, an anti-static surface that sheds dust between events, stainless steel fastening hardware that shrugs off weather, a waterproof detachable cushion over CA117 fire-retardant foam, and a frame that does not care how many times it has been folded.

If you are buying chairs as a capital asset rather than a consumable, this is where the math works. At the lowest published price it is among the least expensive chairs in this guide per warranted year.

Key differences, up close

The Steel Skeleton™ itself. Welded steel frame, cast inside the resin — the reason for the 2,000 lb rating.

Folded, frame only. Same fold-flat geometry as the resin grades, with steel doing the structural work.

Specifications

Steel Skeleton™ WoodGrain™ The top of the line — steel strength, wood looks 2,000 lbs static capacity · 10 years coverage · from $36.98 White WoodGrain™ Resin Steel Skeleton™ Folding Chair with White Seat ▸

This is the only chair in the guide that refuses to compromise on either axis. It carries the same welded Steel Skeleton™ inner core as the grade above it — 2,000 lbs of static capacity, ten years of frame coverage — and it carries the WoodGrain™ mold, so the surface has the grain and texture of real wood rather than the smooth white of a plastic chair.

Everywhere else in this line, choosing the wood look means giving up the steel core, and choosing the steel core means accepting a smooth white finish. Here you get both: UV-stabilized resin over steel, an anti-static surface that sheds dust between events, galvanized steel fastening hardware, and a waterproof detachable white seat over CA117 fire-retardant foam.

At $36.98 it is the most expensive chair here, and $4.00 over the smooth-finish Steel Skeleton™. If your customers book on photographs, that four dollars buys the only thing the camera notices.

Key differences, up close

The Steel Skeleton™ inner core, cast inside the resin. Identical structure to the smooth-finish grade — 2,000 lbs, ten-year frame coverage.

Molded woodgrain on the leg and seat edge. The same steel frame underneath, with wood texture on the surface.

Specifications

Also in this family: Steel Skeleton™ chairs · WoodGrain™ finishes — Fruitwood, Chestnut, Mahogany, Natural and Black.

Grass and Sand Series Built to stand on ground that gives 850 lbs static capacity · 2 years coverage · from $34.98 White Grass and Sand Series Resin Folding Chair ▸

Every other chair in this guide stands on four feet. Put four feet on a lawn after a Thursday rain, or on dry sand, and they sink — unevenly, one leg at a time, usually with a guest already in the seat. The Grass and Sand Series (patent pending) replaces the feet with a U-shaped rail that runs front to back on each side, so the chair bears on a continuous length of ground per side instead of four points.

Underneath the rails this is the SuperResin™ platform: 850 lbs of static capacity, an 18.13-inch seat height, and stainless steel fastening hardware throughout — which is what you want on a chair that works outdoors and gets hosed off afterward. The white vinyl cushion is detachable and waterproof over CA117 fire-retardant foam, and the chair folds to a 2.25-inch profile, slightly flatter than the rest of the line.

The trade is weight and price: 13.4 lbs against 12 for the resin grades, and $34.98 at the deepest published tier against $31.98 for the smooth-finish SuperResin™. If beach ceremonies, garden receptions, and lawn setups are a real share of your calendar, that is the cost of not re-leveling chairs during the processional. If your work is indoors on hard floors, the rails buy you nothing — take the SuperResin™ and keep the three dollars.

Key differences, up close

Our proprietary ground rail — the reason the chair stays level on turf and sand.

Folded to roughly 2.5 inches. The rails sit inside the folded footprint, so stacking and transport are unchanged.

Specifications

Also in this series: Black Grass and Sand Series Resin Folding Chair (SKU CFRBGS-AX-T) — same patent-pending ground rails in black with a black vinyl cushion.

Not sure which grade fits?

Tell us your annual turn count, whether the chairs live outdoors, and what your customers are paying per chair per event. We will tell you which grade the numbers point to — including when that answer is the cheapest one.

(800) 404-4847 · (305) 487-8960 · info@chivari.com