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Canada's Last Hockey Stick Factory Survives in Face of Tariff Threats and Globalization
Roustan Hockey produces about 400,000 wooden sticks annually, facing 7.5% export declines and tariff uncertainties amid a market shift to composite materials, owner says.
- On August 27, 2025, wooden hockey sticks were being produced at Roustan Hockey in Brantford, Ontario—the last major Canadian maker of hockey sticks—as the company confronted trade challenges.
- Decades of global production shifting to Asia and Mexico and protectionist U.S. trade measures, including a late-August elimination of a key customs exemption, led to new uncertainty for the factory.
- Roustan Hockey produces about 400,000 wooden sticks yearly, with roughly 100,000 exported to the U.S., but exports have faced surprise tariffs and manual border inspections.
- Bo Crawford, the factory's general manager, said, “You never know what Trump will do,” and noted, “We have to deal with it the best we can.”
- Despite these headwinds and a shrinking wooden stick market, the operation endures as the last of its kind in North America.
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Roustan Hockey Continues To Compete In Face Of Tariff Threats, Globalization - Canadian Manufacturing
Wearing protective gloves and earplugs, a worker feeds lengths of wood into a machine that makes an ear-splitting whine as it automatically cuts a groove into the end of each piece. Nearby, stacks of wooden wedges wait to be slotted into those grooves to form the beginnings of a hockey stick. Further down the Roustan Hockey production line, other workers are busy shaping, trimming, sanding, painting and screen printing as they turn lumber into a…
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