Manufacturing companies of Canada

ATS Automation Tooling Systems

ATS Automation Tooling Systems (TSX: ATA) is a Cambridge, Ontario based company which designs and builds factory automation solutions. They have designed and built more than 10,000 automation systems in the areas of medical devices, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, semiconductor, fiber optics, automotive, computers, solar energy and consumer products. ATS employs approximately 3500 people worldwide, with more than 1.5 million ft² (140,000 m²) of manufacturing space in 25 manufacturing facilities.
Angstrom Engineering

Angstrom Engineering Inc. is a leading specialty supplier of products and services for the thin film deposition research and pre-production industry. The company is headquartered in Kitchener, Ontario Canada. Founded in 1992 by Andrew W. Bass, currently a private company.
Arva Industries

Arva Industries is a company that specializes in work equipment for military, industrial, rail and resource sectors. The company is based in St. Thomas, Ontario.
Beaver Machine

Beaver Machine Corporation is a bulk vending machine manufacturer located in Newmarket, Ontario Ontario. The company was founded in 1963 as Machine-O-Matic, Ltd., by Josef Schwarzli.
Beco Industries

Beco Industries, a Montreal, Quebec company is an operating company of TerraVest Income Fund. Beco Industries is a manufacturer and importer of home textiles and has been servicing the North American market for over 60 years.
Blue Mountain Pottery

Blue Mountain Pottery was a Canadian pottery company located in Collingwood, Ontario. It was founded in 1947 by Dennis Tupy and closed in 2004. It produced various types of pottery, from animal figurines to jugs, pots and vases. The company's products have a large fan base and are collected world-wide.
Bombardier Recreational Products

Bombardier Recreational Products or BRP is a Canadian company (once part of Bombardier) that traces its roots back to the year 1942 when Joseph-Armand Bombardier founded L'Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée in Valcourt in the Eastern Townships, Quebec. In 2003, the company that Joseph-Armand Bombardier founded (Known as Bombardier Inc,) sold its Recreational Products Division to a group of investors: Bain Capital : 50%, Bombardier Family : 35% and Caisse de Dépôt & Placements du Québec: 15%.
Bombardier Transportation

Bombardier Transportation is the rail equipment division of the Bombardier group. Bombardier Transportation is the world’s largest company in the rail equipment manufacturing and servicing industry. Its headquarters is in Berlin.
Bowmanville Foundry

Bowmanville Foundry Co. Ltd. is a foundry located in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada. It was established in 1901.

The company has a long history of technical innovation and process leadership in the manufacture of ductile, gray iron and malleable iron castings. The Bowmanville Foundry achieved ISO 9002 certification in 1996 and undergoes re-audits by SGS International twice each year to ensure continuous improvement of all quality related systems.
Brac Systems

Brac Systems, Inc., is a company in Montreal, Quebec, that manufactures and markets residential greywater recycling systems. Brac's system captures greywater from showers, bathtubs, and laundry washing machines, and supplies the water under pressure to flush the home's toilets. Based upon statistics from Environment Canada, the company asserts that the use of their system will cut the average home's water consumption and sewage effluent by approximately one third.
Buhler Industries

Buhler Industries Inc. (TSX: BUI) was established in 1969 when John Buhler purchased "Standard Gas Engine Works", which was founded in 1932. The company produced the Farm King line of grain augers, snowblowers, mowers and compact implements. Buhler Industries expanded in 1982 with the purchase of the Allied line of front-end loaders.
CAMI Automotive

CAMI Automotive is an independently incorporated joint venture of automobile manufacturing in Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada and formed the third step of GM's three-pronged initiative of the mid-1980s to capture and practice the Japanese mystique of automotive management. The other two are NUMMI in California and Saturn Corporation in Tennessee.
CCL Industries

CCL Industries Inc. (TSX: CCL.A) is a Toronto, Ontario-based company founded in 1951. CCL is active in three major business segments.
CCM (cycle)

CCM, formerly an initialism for Canada Cycle & Motor Co. Ltd. The company would eventually split into two separate entities both maintaining the CCM trademark, one maintaining bicycle manufacturing and the other, CCM (The Hockey Company), producing hockey equipment.
Canadian Industries Limited

Canadian Industries Limited, also known as C-I-L is a Canadian chemicals manufacturer. Products include paints, fertilizers and pesticides, and explosives. It was formed in 1910 by the merger of five Canadian explosives companies. It is currently a subsidiary of Imperial Chemical Industries.
Casavant Frères

Casavant Frères is a prominent Canadian company that builds fine pipe organs based in Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec.
Cinram

Cinram International Income Fund (TSX: CRW.UN) is a Toronto, Ontario based manufacturer of pre-recorded DVD, VHS Video Cassette, CD-Audio, CD-ROM, and Audio Cassette. Cinram was established in 1969 in Montreal by Isidore Philosophe and financial backer.
Classé

Classé is a Canadian manufacturer of high-end audio equipment, such as amplifiers, pre-amplifiers and source components (such as Compact Disc Players).
Dalsa

DALSA Corporation (TSX: DSA) is a Canadian company specializing in the design and manufacture of specialized electronic cameras. The company was founded in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1980 by imaging pioneer Dr. Savvas Chamberlain, a former Professor in Electrical Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Originally the company concentrated in developing and generating technology in the area of charge coupled device (CCD) image sensors. Since then the company has grown into an industry leader in semiconductor technology, employing approximately 700 people world-wide and sales revenue of more than $100 Million. The company was capitalised in November 1984 and went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange in May 1996. Headquarters remain in Waterloo, but DALSA has expanded operations into Colorado Springs, Colorado; Billerica, Massachusetts; San Juan Capistrano, California; Bromont and Montreal, Quebec; and Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in addition to sales offices in Germany and Japan.
Don Park

Don Park Inc., a North York, Ontario company is an operating company of TerraVest Income Fund. It is one of Canada's largest sheet metal manufacturers offering residential and commercial air distribution products in conjunction with gas venting systems and chimney liner components.
Dorel Industries

Dorel Industries Inc. (TSX: DII and NASDAQ: DIIB) is a Montreal, Quebec-based company which designs and manufactures for three areas: juvenile, home furnishings and recreational/leisure. Dorel employs approximately 4,800 people. It was formed in 1987 as a result of a merger between Dorel Co. Ltd., founded in 1962 and Ridgewood Industries, founded in 1969.
Dupon Trolley

Dupon Trolley specializes in making and rebuilding buses. Based in Quebec City, it has been in business for over 60 years.

Most of Dupon's clients are in Canada and the United States.
Eddy Match Company

The Eddy Match Company is a Canadian company whose main product was originally wooden matches.

The company began manufacturing matches in Hull Quebec in 1851 as the E.B. Eddy Company. EB Eddy sold off its match division in 1927 and it was merged with World Match Corp. Ltd., Dominion Match Co. Ltd. and Canadian Match Co. Ltd.. Ezra Butler Eddy had started off in business making matches in Hull, Quebec by hand from wood discarded by local sawmills. The company became the first manufacturer of book matches in Canada in 1929 and was the largest producer of this product in Canada.
Eicon

Eicon Networks Corporation is a privately owned designer, developer and manufacturer of communication products founded in 1984 with headquarters in Montreal, Canada. Eicon products are sold worldwide through a large network of distributors and resellers, and supplied to OEMs.
Electrohome

Electrohome is perhaps best known as one of Canada's largest manufacturers of television sets in its heyday between 1949 and 1984, and continues to be a popular brand in the Canadian market.
Element Yachts

Element Yachts is a second generation Canadian boatbuilding company located in Erin, Ontario. The company is currently producing the Element line of express cruiser boats with the first model of the series, the 27-foot (8.2 m) Element 270 EXC beginning production in 2005. Element Yachts focuses primarily on the powerboat sector of the boating market, and sells its products worldwide.
Ezee-On

Ezee-On Manufacturing, a Vegreville, Alberta company is an operating company of TerraVest Income Fund. Ezee-On Manufacturing develops and manufacturs farm equipment for the agriculture sector.
Girardin Minibus

Girardin Minibus specializes in custom order buses and is based in Drummondville, Quebec, Canada (along the Trans-Canada Highway). During the 1990s, Girardins were marketed through the United States branded as Blue Bird MB II/IV by Girardin alongside their own Micro Bird. Girardin is also a dealer for Blue Bird Corporation school and commercial buses in Canada. Most of Girardin's buses are mini-school buses and are used throughout Canada.
Husky Injection Moulding Systems Ltd

Husky Injection Moulding Systems Ltd was founded by Robert Schad, a German immigrant who came to Canada in 1951 with $25 borrowed from an uncle and a letter from a family friend by the name of Albert Einstein. He was born in 1928, the son of a banker and a doctor who studied mechanical engineering for two years at the University of Karlsruhe before deciding to drop out and immigrate to Canada.

Husky manufactures a wide range of Injection molding machines, Injection Moulds, Hotrunners, Robots and auxiliary systems used in Plastics Manufacturing.

Husky's head office is located in Bolton, Ontario, Canada, and has many manufacturing facilities located across North America, Europe and Asia.
KING Products and Solutions Inc.

KING Products and Solutions Inc. is provider of solutions for multimedia interactive kiosks with touch screen technology. KING is unique in that it can provide both kiosk hardware and kiosk software offering. KING products is wholly owened Urmet Group, a supplier to the telecommunication market, specializies in public telephony and multimedia terminal equipment and systems.
Kitchen Craft of Canada Ltd.

Kitchen Craft was established in 1972. The company manufactures cabinetwork for kitchens and bathrooms. In 2002, Kitchen Craft became part of the MasterBrand Group of cabinet manufacturers, a division of Fortune Brands in the United States. The company employs approximately 1300 people in the Winnipeg plant making it one of the largest employers in the city. There are several retail showrooms located across Western Canada.
Kongsberg Mesotech

Kongsberg Mesotech Ltd, based in Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada, is a part of Kongsberg Maritime, a subsidiary of Norwegian industrial concern Kongsberg Gruppen. Mesotech make underwater surveillance and advanced frogman detection sonar systems.
Kraus Flooring

Kraus is a manufacturer of tufted broadloom carpet and distributor of other flooring products. The company was founded in 1959 by Michael Kraus. Headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Kraus has manufacturing facilities in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, in Dalton, Georgia, USA and in Southport, Queensland, Australia as well as distribution sites across Canada and the United States. Kraus is a private company with over 900 employees, which is ranked among North America's ten largest flooring companies.
Lee Valley Tools

Lee Valley Tools is a Canadian family-owned mail-order and retail company purveying mainly woodworking and gardening tools and equipment, as well as woodworking hardware and gifts. Its research and development and manufacturing arm, Veritas Tools, has developed, patented and is manufacturing many innovative woodworking hand-tools, including hand planes, marking gauges and other measuring tools, router tables, sharpening systems, and numerous other gadgets.
Leitch Technology

Leitch Technology Corporation was a Canadian corporation based in Toronto, Ontario specializing in the design and manufacture of equipment for the broadcast television and video post-production industries.
Lethbridge Iron Works

Lethbridge Iron Works Co. Ltd. is an iron foundry based in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1898, it is one of the oldest businesses in Lethbridge.
Linamar

Based in Guelph, Ontario, Linamar Corporation (TSX: LNR) is Canada's second largest automobile parts manufacturer after Magna International. Linamar manufactures and supplies automotive and industrial markets across the globe with numerous manufacturing centres across North America, Europe, and Asia.
Magna International

Magna International Inc. (TSX: MG) is a Canadian company based in Aurora, Ontario. It is Canada's largest automobile parts manufacturer, and one of the country's largest companies. It also owns the successful Magna Steyr automobile production company of Austria.
Masonite International

Masonite International Corporation is a Mississauga, Ontario based company headquartered in Tampa, Florida, which employs over eleven thousand people worldwide. Masonite manufactures interior and exterior doors, door components, and door entry systems. It is one of the world's largest manufacturer and merchandiser of commercial and residential doors. A producer of over 120,000 interior and exterior wood, fiberglass, and metal doors a day, it has operations in more than 80 facilities in sixteen countries in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Murray-Latta

The Murray-Latta Machine Company is a British Columbian machine manufacturing and steel fabrication company. In the 1960s and 1970s, they built a number of chairlifts, mainly in British Columbia. Although they no longer design or fabricate chairlifts, they still provide parts and act as contractors for constructing new lifts designed by other manufacturers.
NAD Electronics

NAD Electronics (NAD originally was an acronym for New Acoustic Dimension) is a Canadian producer of low-cost home audiophile amplifiers and components owned by the Lenbrook Group of Pickering, Ontario, Canada. Its most famous product is the late-1970s NAD 3020 amplifier, designed by Bjørn Erik Edvardsen, which became a staple of low-budget Hi-Fi in Britain, where the company was originally founded in London by Martin Borish.
New Flyer Industries

New Flyer Industries Inc. (TSX: NFI.UN) is a bus manufacturer in North America, headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It also has factories in Crookston and St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA.
Norpak

Norpak is a company headquartered in Kanata, Ontario, Canada, that specializes in the development of systems for television-based data transmission.
Nortel

Nortel Networks Corporation (TSX: NT NYSE: NT), formerly known as Northern Telecom Limited and sometimes known simply as Nortel, is a multinational telecommunications equipment manufacturer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Novelis

Novelis Inc. is a Canadian company headquartered in Toronto involved in aluminum rolling and aluminum can recycling. It was spun off from Alcan's rolling division and incorporated in January 2005. Novelis has executive offices located in Atlanta, GA. On February 11, 2007, the company entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by India's Hindalco for U$6 billion, which makes the combined entity the world's largest rolled-aluminium producer. This also makes the company a member of Aditya Birla Group.
Overland-Ford

Overland Custom Coach, Inc is a London, Ontario-based builder of customized vehicles and buses. Established in 1981, it is a supplier of Tour, Shuttle & handicapped-accessible Low Floor and Lift Equipped buses to the Canadian Market with Sales to the US Market for ELF Product.
Oxford (company)

Oxford is the Canadian arm of Pendaflex, and makes organizational filing solutions. It is owned by Esselte.
Polymorphe

Polymorphe is Canada's leading manufacturer of latex garments and accessories.
Pratt & Whitney Canada

Pratt & Whitney Canada (PWC) is a Canadian aircraft engine manufacturer. PWC's headquarters are in Longueuil, Quebec, just outside Montreal. It is a division of the larger American Pratt & Whitney (P&W), a business unit of United Technologies. United Technologies has given PWC a world mandate for smaller aircraft engines while P&W's US operations develop and manufacture larger engines.
Premium Brands Income Fund

Premium Brands Income Fund (TSX: PBI.UN), is a publicly traded income trust on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Prevost Car

Prevost Car is a Quebec, Canada-based manufacturer of touring coaches and bus shells for high-end motorhomes and specialty conversions.

The company now owns Nova Bus and in turn is owned by Volvo Bus Corporation.
ProSlide

ProSlide is a Canadian manufacturer of water rides and water park resorts. They manufacture both traditional slides and innovative rides such as water coasters with conveyor belts, funnel-shaped Tornado slides, and Bowl slides. More recently, they have received some additional attention for being the first water slide manufacturer to build a water slide that is launched with the aid of linear induction motors.
Railpower Technologies

Railpower Technologies Corp. (TSX: P) is a Canadian company that builds environmentally friendly hybrid yard locomotives, founded by Frank Donnelly and Gerard Koldyk. Its "Green Goat" locomotives have been purchased by Canadian Pacific Railway, BNSF Railway, Kansas City Southern Railway and Union Pacific Railroad among others. It is traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Royal Group Technologies

Royal Group Technologies is a large Canadian building supplies maker and plastics company. Based in Woodbridge, Ontario it also has operations in much of Latin America and in Poland and China. In recent years it has been plagued by scandals and financial loses.
Sher-Wood

Sherwood-Drolet is a maker of ice hockey equipment, which it sells under the Sher-Wood brand.
Soheil Mosun

Soheil Mosun Limited (SML) is a Custom Architectural Fabrication/Manufacturing and Design/Build company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Founded in 1973 by Soheil and Brigitta Mosun, SML was established as a privately owned corporation. SML started as an architectural model-building firm and has since progressed to a complete design build company capable of servicing any fabrication or architectural manufacturing project.
Stanfield's Limited

Stanfield's Limited is a Canadian garment manufacturer based in Truro, Nova Scotia.
Steeplejack Industrial

Steeplejack Industrial is an Edmonton, Alberta based company that provides industrial scaffolding, insulation, asbestos abatement and other related civil and industrial services.
Stylus Sofas

Stylus Sofas, a Burnaby, British Columbia company is an operating company of TerraVest Income Fund. Stylus Sofas designs, manufactures and markets casual contemporary sofas, chairs and accessories.
Sun Gro Horticulture Income Fund

Sun Gro Horticulture (TSX: GRO.UN) is the leading producer of peat moss in North America. It provides peat-based and bark-based growing mixes for professional use.
Sunwell Technologies

Sunwell Technologies registered the world's first slurry ice patent application in the U.S.A. in 1976. Sunwell pioneered and continued to develop the field of slurry ice and is today the world leader in slurry ice systems, with numerous patents worldwide covering various processes for the production, storage and distribution of slurry ice.
TC-Helicon

TC-Helicon is a Canadian audio equipment manufacturer, a subsidiary of Danish company TC Electronic. TC-Helicon focuses on vocal harmonizers, pitch correction, monitor speakers, and other products for vocalists.
Westeel

Westeel, a subsidiary of the Vicwest corporation as of 2005, is a Canadian grain bin manufacturing company. They are based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It was founded by W. J. McMartin in 1905 under the name “Winnipeg Ceiling and Roofing Company”.
Zarlink

Zarlink Semiconductor (TSX: ZL) (NYSE: ZL) is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in networking, microwave and medical devices. Its head offices are located in Ottawa, Canada. It has development centres in Canada, the United Kingdom, the U.S., and Sweden, and fabrication facilities in the United Kingdom and Sweden. Their Plymouth site is shared with the semiconductor wafer fab of X-Fab, Zarlink having sold the building to X-Fab in 2002.