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Nova Craft Canoe

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Ontario

Family-owned canoe builder in London, Ontario, founded 1970, making composite (fiberglass, TuffStuff, aramid, carbon) and roto-molded polyethylene canoes sold through a dealer network across Canada, the US and Europe.

London, ON CA · www.novacraft.com

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Nova Craft Canoe is a family-owned canoe builder in London, Ontario, making composite and roto-molded canoes since 1970 and selling through a Canadian, US and European dealer network. Ownership, manufacturing and staff are all concentrated at the single London facility, while composite reinforcement fibres (Innegra, basalt, Twaron aramid, carbon) are sourced from outside Canada.

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Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor's Our Team page names Chris Rath as owner and president, and its contact page names the operating entity Nova Sports Equipment Ltd. at 471 Nightingale Avenue, London, ON. madeinca.ca corroborates Canadian ownership. Corporations Canada's federal registry returns zero results for both "Nova Sports Equipment" and "Nova Craft", so this is an Ontario-registered corporation; the Ontario Business Registry requires an interactive session and could not be checked by direct fetch, so no registry filing or significant-control record confirms the ownership stake.

Manufacturing

100.0 reported

CA 100%

Nova Craft states its canoes are made in Canada, began in a garage-based operation near London, Ontario in 1970, and lists a single London manufacturing and head office address; the Prospector 16 product page states "Made in Canada." madeinca.ca corroborates manufacturing in London, Ontario. No evidence of manufacturing outside the single London facility was found.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor operates from a single site at 471 Nightingale Avenue, London, ON, and its careers page recruits for manufacturing roles at that facility; no other office or plant is named on the site.

Inputs

19.5 inferred

CA 10% · EU 30% · other 25% · US 35%

Nova Craft names its composite reinforcement fibres but not their country of origin, so this mix is inferred from the known makers of each named fibre, weighted roughly by how many of the six material lines use each: TuffStuff and TuffStuff Expedition are woven from Innegra (a polypropylene fibre made by Innegra Technologies, South Carolina, US) and basalt fibre (melted rock fibre, an input typically produced in Russia, Ukraine or China, bucketed as OTHER); Aramid Lite uses Twaron aramid, made by Teijin Aramid in the Netherlands (EU); Blue Steel adds carbon fibre (maker unnamed) and Innegra. Fiberglass and the vinylester resin system are not attributed to a named supplier, and the SP3 polyethylene line's resin origin is also unstated; a small CA share is assumed for undocumented resin and plastics inputs given North American petrochemical supply. No vendor statement or registry names a specific supplier country, so this whole factor is an estimate.

  • Materials Explained - Nova Craft Canoe · the vendor's own site “TuffStuff is a cutting edge proprietary composite made of basalt and Innegra fibers. ... We use Twaron fabrics to give you the power of Aramid.”
  • Innegra S - Wikipedia · press “Innegra Technologies LLC”
  • Twaron - Wikipedia · press “Since 2000 Twaron BV has been owned by the Teijin Group, now called Teijin Twaron BV and based in ... Netherlands. ... the polymer is brought to Emmen, where fibres are produced.”

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